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The Review of Reviews. 



organised to cany on the war and put down 

 revolutionary niovenu-nts in Macedonia and Albania. 

 If the army holds togetiier the temporary suspension 

 of the Constitution may be carried out without any 

 serious disorders. But if by any chance the army 

 should be split into two factions arid civil war 

 ensued, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to 

 prevent the long-dreaded general scramble for the 

 Sick Man's inheritance. The insistence of some 

 friends of hun^anity upon the immediate carrying out 

 of radical internal reforms before helping the Sultan 

 to keep his dominions together reminds one of the 

 fanatical Presbyterians who insisted upon Charles the 

 Second taking the Solemn League and Covenant before 

 consenting to help him against Oliver Cromwell. 



The lesson of the events of 191 1 



League of the Weak 's that it is high time for all the 



against small nations of Europe to put 



the Strong. », • , i , •, 



their heads together to consider 



whether or not they cannot do something to strengthen 

 their position against their stronger neighbours. The 

 treaties upon which they relied have been proved to 

 be little better than waste paper. The Powers which 

 they hoped would maintain the public law of Europe 

 have shown themselves cynically indifferent to their 

 treaty obligations. Tripoli has been abandoned to 

 the Italian raiders. Whose turn will it be ne.xt ? 

 Norway and Sweden are uneasy lest Russia should 

 develop her policy in Finland into aggression on 

 Scandinavia. Denmark and Belgium fear that they 

 may be the cockpit of an Anglo-German war. 

 Holland and Switzerland have much to tempt the 

 aggressor. Bulgaria and Servia, Greece and Monte- 

 negro maybe used to pay the stakes of the loser. No one 

 feels safe. It is difficult to see what the small nations 

 can do save to seek shelter under the wing of their 

 stronger neighbours, which may protect them — for a 

 consideration. The oudook is very gloomy. In the 

 long run things will right themselves ; but for the 

 meantime the sky is very dark. 



The Germans have not yet shown 



The their hand about their new pro- 



Anglo-German ^ , ... 



Danger. gramme of naval construction. 



But they have announced their 



intention to increase their army by two new corps, 



including eighteen new battalions of infantry, which 



will entail an increased expen<liture of four millions 



a year. Austria, also, is increasing her army the 



objective in both cases being Russia rather tlian 



France or Italy. Prof. Delbriick, one of the ablest of 



German publicists, has declared thit lie despairs of 



maintaining peace between England and Germany, 



Zc; Crt dc l\tt . = . 



After the Agreement. 



Germany : " Friends ? " 

 John tJuLL : " Friends !" 



although the reasons which he gives for his despon- 

 dency are by no means convincing. The most 

 interesting point in the Delbriick interview is his 

 admission that our two-keels-to-one standard is n( t 

 unreasonable, in view of the absolute dependence of 

 the British Empire on the sovereignty of the seas 

 There is a general concurrence of opinion that at 

 present nothing can be done to promote better 

 relations between the two countries. The danger is 

 that Mr. Winston Churchill may flinch from maintain- 

 ing the two-keels-to-one standard, preferring to pre- 

 cipitate a settlement rather than go on preparing and 

 postponing. 



During the negotiations which 

 nearly resulted in war about 

 Morocco none of the Powers 

 suggested a reference to the 

 It is therefore the more satis- 

 factory that in the agreement which terminated the 

 controversy France and 'Germany declare that should 

 any disputes arise as to the interpretation of that 

 instrument, they sliall be referred to the Hague 

 Tribunal for amicable settlement on juridical lines. 

 Turkey has also agreed to send her claims to the 

 disputed district of Uremiah, on the Persian frontier, 

 to the Hague for settlement if the joint Commission 



One for the 

 Hague Tribunal. 



Hague Tribunal. 



