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. Mr. Kipling has been blamed for the too great

fierceness of his poem, and men have feared its tendency to embroil us still further with Germany. In ordiecry circumstances we should have agreed that it was wrong to increase national animosity, but we fear that in the case of Germany nothing could increase the animosity of the dominant public opinion. Here there is a real need for speaking out plainly and strongly. Only by such speech can we hope to convince the Government that we cannot, and will not, become the allies of Germany, and that the control of our foreign policy must not be placed even for an hour in the hands of the Kaiser and his Chancellor.

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