" There is room for agreement," says one of the
articles. True. " There's plenty of room for water," as the camel said while- it toiled over the Libyan Desert. The "Continental question"—that is to say, the geographical limits of the German Empire—must be regarded, we are told, as already settled "strategically." What strategy has done •for Germany is to give her " predominance in the Near East." In other words, Germany wants to lord it over the Balkan nationalities in the interests, no doubt, of a really " national " settlement. As for the German colonies, Germany is—need we say 1—to have them hack. By deduction philosophers descend from the abstract to the' concrete. The Chancellor, who presides over a land of philosophers, in his deduction of possible peace terms ascends from a gloomy concrete to a sphere of radiant abstractions which we hope he really enjoys contemplating as much as we have enjoyed reading about them.
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