here can be no peace upon earth or goodwill among men. Her claim to rule the seas, and the consequences, direct and indir

quarter of the globe; to setting otherwise friendly peoples by the ears; to forming "alliance

dea is propagated by English agencies, that Europe owes her burden of armaments to the antagonism between France and Germany, to the loss of Alsace-Lorraine

eget the state of mind responsible for the enormous growth of armaments that now over-shadows continental civilization. Humanity, hemmed in in Central Europe by a forest of bayonets and debarred all egress to the light of a large

h her own hands she must strangle the se

that drives the peoples of Europe into armed camps. The policy of the Boer War is being tried on a vaster scale against Europe. Just as England beat the Boers by concentration camps and not by arms, by money and not by men, so she seeks to-day to erect an armourplate barrier around the one European people she fears to meet in the field, and to turn all Central Europe into a vast concent

bar, the press; the society hostess, the Cabinet Minister and the Cabinet Minister's wife, the ex-Cabinet Minister and the Royal Family itself, and last, but not least, even "Irish nationality"-all have been pilgrims to that shrine; and each has been carefully primed, loaded, well aimed, and then turned full on the weak spots in the armour of republican simplicity. To the success of these resources of panic the falsification of history becomes essential and the vilification of the most peace-loving people of Europe. The past relations of England with the United States are to be blotted out, and the American peop

the coloured toilers in mine and camp, directs his eyes from the bent forms of these indentured slaves of dividend to the erect and stalwart frames of the new Goths who threaten th

journals, appealing possibly to only a handful of readers, assert that the function of the British fleet is to exclude the European States, with Germany at their head, from South America, not because in itself that is a ri

how widespread is the propaganda of falsehood and how sustained is the effort being made to poison the A

whites, in a recent issue (March, 1913), devoted a leader to the approaching "Peace Centennial" of 1914, to be held in commemo

out some latter day indications of rapprochement between England and the United States, it goes on to pro

y in that competition for naval supremacy in Europe which compels the United States to put her own flee

at Britain has set up to what might become something more than a dream of expansion into South America on the part of one potent European State. It is, indeed, hardly too much to say that the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine is at the present moment almost as fully

lidarity of mutual interests rightly perceived." "The ultimate solidarity" aimed at by those who direct these world-wide pronouncements is not one of mere sterile friends

ngland, from England to her fleet, from the seas to the air, the Englishman lives and moves and has his being in an atmosphere not of love but of hatred. And this too, a hatred, fear, and jealousy

ances of the British navy that were it not for Germany there would be to-day another Spithead. "Across the North Sea is a n

y only the Germans and their 'menace' that saved us from the trouble." But while the "patriotism" of the "lower-deck" may have been sufficiently stout to avert

Beresford, dubs him the "laughing-stock of the fleet," accuses him of publishing in his book The Betraya

ch Admirals as these that is to s

o each other, and the bombardment of the forts was silenced by the smart interchange of nautical civilities between the two flagships. Napoleon III, who sought an explanation of this failure of his fleet, was given a reply that I cannot refrain from recommending to the British Admiralty to-day. "Well

opinions of Englishmen, instead of to their public utterances, o

ishman" no more loves an American citizen now than in 1846 when he seriously contemplated an invasion

to the late American Ambassador as "a great American and a kinsman," one "sprung from a common race, speaking our own language, sharing with us by birth as by inheritance not a few of our most cherished traditions and participatin

that the work of the famine should be complete and that the then too great population of Ireland shou

, whom a Spanish king shipped across the seas with equal pious intent, the fugitive Irish Nation found friendship, hope, and homes in the grea

h fugitives and were saying very harsh things of England's infamous rule in Ireland. This could not be brooked. England in those days had not invented the Anglo

around for some one else to do the fighting. The Duke of Wellington hoped that France might be played on,

was seriously planned. Again it is an Irishman who tells the story and shows us how dearly the En

ld smash the Yankees, and ought to do so while France in her present humour and Mexico opens the road to invasion from the South-not to speak of the

er who conceived it was the chivalrous Englishman who conquered Scinde

slave millions were to be loosed were the "kith and kin" of those meditating this atrocious form of massacre. Truly, as an old Irish prover

l, a dead Irishman speaks to us from the grave. Michael Davitt in a letter to Morrison Davids

risaism and an incurable hypocrisy. Their moral appetite is fed on falsehood. They profess Christianity and believe only in Mammon. They talk of liberty while

n's Ministers felt and expressed in 1846 for the people of the United States? Is it love to-day for America or f

d to limit and restrict all further world changes, outside of certain prescribed continental limits, to

of the earth, why not bring about a universal agreement to keep everyone in his right place, to s

nging, was exposed in a spirit of bitter resignation and castigated with an appropriate selection of texts. The Hague Tribunal would be so

when she, or any of the Powers to whom she appeals, will consent to submit the claim of one of the minor peoples she or they hold in subjection to the Hague Tribunal. Let France submit Madagascar and Siam, or her latest victim, Morocco, to the franchise of the Court. Let Russia agree to Poland or Finland seeking the verdic

that what she holds she will keep, by force if need be, and what she wants she will, in her own sure time, take, an

pottage so amiably offered at Berlin bought no German birthright. The Kreuz Zeitung rightly summed up the situation by pointing out that "Mr. Churchill's testimony can now be advanced as showing that the will of England alone comes in question as the exponent of peace, and that England for many years past has consciously assumed the r?le of an absolute and perfectly arbitrary judge of war and peace. It seems to us all the more significant that Mr. Churchill proposes also in the future to

he cannot get out to play her part in world life, nay, she cannot hope to ul

fight. The assault must be delivered, the fortress carried, or else Germany, and with her Europe, must res

natural annual increase, and realising that emigration to-day means only to lose her people and build up her antagonist's strength, she has for years now striven to keep her people within German limits, and hitherto with successful results far in excess of any achieved by other European States. But the limit must b

d during 1911 showed an excess of close on 40,000 deaths over births. For France the day of greatness is past. A French Empire, in any

us population already finds a considerable outlet in Argentina and South Brazil, among peoples, institutions, and language largely approximating to those left behind. While Italy has, indeed need of a w

hese need a great and healthy field for their beneficial display, and the world needs these things more than it needs the British mastery of the seas. The world of European life needs to-day, as it needed in the days of a decadent Roman Em

preme test of German genius, of German daring,

and Napoleon failed, will the hei

uce the statesman soldier who shall see that the key to ocean freedom lies

the Vistula, the Dnieper, the Loire, but until she restores that key to Europe, to paraph

Sir Edward Grey and

gton: the report was brought to Lever b