It is needless to' express our fall acquiescence in Mr.
Lloyd George's warning. Writing on the " Terms of Peace " on July 15th, we described the attitude of the normal Briton as follows: "The Allies are not going to give the Germans a chance to come at us a second time. Never again! is our motto." We went on: "The Germans have issued a Book of Hell of which there must be • no second edition," and added : " Better ten years and more of war than a patched-up peace which will only be preparatory to a new outbreak." We met the well-meant suggestions of mediation by neutral Powers exactly as Mr. Lloyd George met them. Again, in our article on September 16th on " A Pacificist Plot " we pointed out that the neutral States would never be so mad as to attempt intervention. " The neutrals know quite well what the answer of the Allies would be to any hortitory attempt to mediate— a polite ' Thank you, but we do not think it would be in the higher interests of Europe to enter on the discussions you suggest ' from the Governments ; and a very impolite ' Mira your own business and don't interfere with ours' from the Allied peoples."
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