Sir Edward Grey was the chief speaker at a Liberal
demonstration in Edinburgh on. Monday, and devoted the greater part of his speech to the Navy and our foreign relations. He had not the slightest wish to deprecate any Conservative impressing the country with a serious sense of responsibility with regard to the Navy, but be did object to attempts to put the country in a state of panic when the facts did not justify it. Sir Edward Grey observed that he did not shrink from the moral that the best way to avoid an inevitable war was preparation for it, but the other moral of the recent history of war scares was this : "Do not rashly slide into talk about inevitable wars." There had never been less reason to talk about the prospects of war with Germany. "At no time had the British Government found a greater disposition on the part of the German Government to handle questions which arose between them in a friendly spirit than during the past year."
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