96 THE GREAT WAR 



We are lost in admiration at the willing 

 sacrifices the Colonies are making for the cause 

 of the Empire and for love of the Mother 

 Country. 



After the war is over it is to be hoped that the 

 dream of the great Colonial Secretary whom 

 unhappily we have lately lost will be realized, 

 and that we shall see the grand spectacle of an 

 Imperial Assembly in London in which the 

 Eepresentatives of the daughter States will sit 

 side by side with those of the Mother Country, 

 taking their share of the responsibilities and their 

 part in directing the destinies of the greatest 

 Empire the world has ever seen. Such an 

 Empire based on Freedom and Justice would 

 be the great guarantee against the loathsome 

 doctrine of Kaiserism wherever it might be 

 found, and a most hopeful instrument for 

 securing peace and goodwill among nations. 



There are, however, after-war dangers looming 

 ahead. One of the chief dangers is that of a 

 patched-up peace. In that case the German 

 monarchy, maddened with venomous hatred of 

 England, would renew the war with this country 

 at the earliest possible time ; at a time when we 

 may be less favourably situated than we are 



