On TueSday Herr Muller said that his- Government aimed at
a friendly understanding with other nations and harboured "no thought,:- otsjevenge." We trust that tiiis incidentally ...:means", an end' of the sterile demand for a cancellation of Germany's signature of the war guilt clause. We are quite prepared to admit that the inclusion of any such, clause by the Allies was an error of judgment. No opinion on the question of guilt is worth having but that of historians of a later age who have all the evidence before them. An attempt at cancellation, however, would subject Europe to a controversy which might upset the whole existing order, waste months of time, and leave matters worse than before. Germany should remember- that if she must wait for the verdict of posterity, so also must the Allies. If some day historians should conclude that the Allies forced Germany's signature unfairly, the Allies will be condemned in the same degree that Germany is excul- pated. We do not ourselves, of course, think that such a thing will happen, but it is at all Cl'ents clear that the only judgment worth having will be arrived at in open court after a fair hearing. * * *
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