Though one may for a moment indulge in such speculations,
we should be mad as a nation if we let them distract our minds from the urgent and absolute necessity of concentrating every ounce of available effort upon making our own position good and on defeating the Germans. Indeed, it is not too much to say that we may be undone by our admittedly distant prospect of success, as they may be undone by their prospect of failure. If instead of setting OUT teeth harder than ever, and strengthening our determination to use our last shilling and our last drop of blood in beating the enemy, we indulge in a fatuous sense of security, we shall yet fail, and deserve to fail The Germans have still plenty of blood and iron in them to conquer a nation that yields to such folly as that. Besides, who knows, as the Morning Post wisely suggests, whether their present signs of distress are not largely simulated in order to paralyse our efforts—whetber, in fact, they are not "shamming dead " P A happy prospect has opened before our eyes, but we can only make it good and gain the peace we all pray for by a mighty determination, by an unflagging will to win—by getting every available mien in the country to realize the country's mods, and his personal duty in face of those needs.
