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Dr. Wiemer, on behalf of the Radical People's Party, followed

on similar lines. The German nation, be said, was angered because its prestige had suffered severely. The remedy his party sought was in a genuinely Constitutional system of government, and in the right of a people to determine its own policy. Herr Singer, who, in the absence of Herr Bebel, spoke for the Socialists, asserted that the alleged hostility of large sections of the German people to Great Britain was a perver- sion of actual facts. " It was exactly as if the Emperor lived in the clouds." The Reichstag, he went on, must rid Germany of the policy of speeches, telegrams, and letters. The German people must be protected by law against the recurrence of such incidents through an amendment of the Constitution.

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