* * * * We earnestly desire that Germany should
enter the League, for we freely recognize that at present the League is open to the eharge.that it is, in inspiration and control, a mere combination -of the victorious Allies. We wish, however, that Germany could kave alone this discussion of responsibility which can never reach finality. No doubt, in some sense, all nations were " responsible " through having consented to an international relationship which implied war. Taking responsibility in the narrower sense, however, we cannot see how anybody can doubt that Germany was mainly responsible. She could have had peace, but in the end she would not have it. That was mainly the result of " Kaiserism," and the present German Republic surely need not concern itself with a defence of pre-War policy as a matter of amour propre. We trust that Germany will be shrewd enough to shelve the whole question.
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