Affairs in Germany have become curiously interesting owing to the
weakening position of the Imperial Chancellor. One would have thought that his yielding to ruthless submarine warfare would have
saved him his position. But he has lost the real support of the Socialists without satisfying the Junkers. He still tries to ride the two horses with a foot on the back of each, but he is not good at this sort of circus performance, and ho cuts a sorry figure. Mean- while it is significant that the Socialists have been allowed freely to air their views in the Press about a peace without an indemnity or annexations. An officially inspired article in the Bavarian Staalszeitung has also advocated the idea of no annexations and no indemnity, but the restoration of the German colonies. It has caused alarm and fury among the Pan-Germans and in Prussia generally. In short, Germany is splitting up into rival schools on the question of war aims. Searching interpellations await the uneasy Chancellor. The moral for us is clear enough—our business is to win the war without paying the slightest attention to the babble of the German factions, except in so far as it enables us to profit in a military sense by our enemy's weakness.
