No doubt if Belgium is mentioned at all in the
answer to the Pope, even in the disingenuous manner which seems to be fore- shadowed, our Pacificists here will tell us that another goklen opportunity for peace has arrived. We could wish that these dangerous misdirectors of opinion would throw their eyes across the Atlantic and learn something from the example of the United States, which is perhaps the most peace-loving country in the world, but which recognizes that:the final defeat of Germany is the only true way of peace. Americans, as a result of their most painful and illusion-shattering negotiations with the German Government about the ' '.boats, are deeply learned in the diplomacy which employs a perfect battery of loophole language, and they under- stand only too well what it all means.
