228 



The Review of Reviews, 



March 20, 1906. 



Vhotograph by} [Beregford. 



Princess Ena of Battenberg 



Who is to be married to the King of Spain. She is a niece 

 of King Edward, and only daugfiter of Princess Henry 

 of Hattenberg. 



sued ill two ways ; first, by the removal of misunder- 

 standings; secondly, by the active promotion of fra- 

 ternity and good understanding, especially with 

 those nations who misunderstand us most. Nothing 

 has been more gratifying than to note the prompt 

 and friendly response of the great German trading 

 community and of the German Chancellor to the 

 attempt, timid and tentative though it was, of Brit- 

 ish public opinion to protest against the abominable 

 campaign of insult and calumny that has been kept 

 up for years past by the jingo-Unionist Press 

 agaiiist Germany and its Kaiser. It is simply in- 

 credible to those who have not been in Germany, 

 but nevertheless it is perfectly true that, o^ving to 

 the reckless language of some Admirals, and the 

 campaign of hatred organised by the National Re- 

 view, the German public was fully convinced that 

 we were preparing to repeat at Kiel the piratical 

 coup of Copenhagen, and burn or sink the German 

 fleet any fine morning without troubling ourselves 

 about such a trifle as a declaration of war. 



We have come to be regarded as 



What Should be a nation capable of any piratical 



Done. ad\"enture, and we are believed to 



be filled with an insatiable hatred 

 of the German Empire. That is the result of a Jingo 

 Press. Sir E. Grey has to counteract the miscliief of 

 these irresponsible swashbucklers of the pen, and to 

 convince the world in general, and Russia and Ger- 

 many in particular, that we do honestly and sincerely 

 want to be friends and mean to show ourselves 

 friendly. It ought to be laid down as a standing 

 rule in the Foreign Office and at the Admiralty that 

 wherever and whenever any foreign nation finds it- 

 self in a difficulty in seeking ends which we recog- 

 nise as legitimate, we should be quick to proffer them 

 whatever help we can. Heretofore, when. Russia 

 wanted anything, no matter how innocent was her 

 aspiration, it became at once a recognised object 

 of British policy to thwart her. Hence we have had 

 for years past nothing but nagging and scratcliing 

 and snarling, where we might have had the best of 

 good relations. Above all, we must begin a great 

 policy of international hospitality. If I were asked 

 to define what is the difference between the Jingo 

 foreign policy and the foreign policy of the new 

 Government, I should say that the former was the 

 policy of international pinpricks, the latter the 

 policv of international picnics. The cost could be 

 easily defrayed by the allocation of decimal point 

 one per cent, of the Army and Navy vote for pur- 



La Silhouette.'] 



[Paris. 



The Kaiskr : ' Why do the people call nie warlike ? See how- 

 peaceful I am." 



