We do not think it will serve any good purpose
to dwell on the details of the negotiations, but it is important to put on record a quotation from a German newspaper sent by the very able Berlin correspondent of the Times to Friday's paper. "The Tagliche Rundschau, an influential journal with a large circulation, publishes," he tells us, "a communication from a valued correspondent' (Von gesehatzter &lie), in confirmation of its opinion that the insolence of the United States, fostered by the inexhaustible complaisance of the people of Europe, has reached a pitch which is simply unbear- able." This "valued correspondent" goes on to say, among other amazing things :—" The United States will keep perfectly quiet, for President Roosevelt i a man of too great experience not to reflect upon the com- parative strength of the allied fleets and tl.at of North America." In other words, the Alliance has brought us to this point, that the German Press now threatens America with the British Fleet. Was it as a reminder of this kind that the German Emperor set up, only a few days ago, a list of the British and German warships side by side in the Reichstag P We cannot, however, believe that the Americans will be misled by " bluff " so exaggerated as this. They must know that, entanglement or no entanglement, if matters were really to become serious, the grouping of the Fleets would be as it was in Manila Bay, and not as the Kaiser is now trying to adver- tise to the world.
