Not unnaturally, though unwisely as we think, there has been
a good deal of grumbling against the Government over the Irish revolt, but on the whole nothing could have been better than the temper of the British people. There has been no panic, no de- pression, no unworthy fears, though there has been a pretty general recognition of the fact that all the incidents we have mentioned were part of a carefully thought out German attack upon these Wands, an attack intended to synchronize with the political crisis here, which no doubt the Germans imagined to be a very great deal more serious than it was. Our enemies at Berlin contrive from certain points of view to learn a great deal about us, but one thing- they never seem able to understand—that the best way of keeping the present Government in power is to aggravate the situation here. Rightly or wrongly, the impulse of the ordinary Englishman in moments of peril or difficulty is to support the Government. Napoleon understood us better when after Waterloo he said that if he had been an English Emperor his failure would not have cost him the loyalty of a single Field-Marshal or lost him a single vote in the Assembly.
