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sidered and approved of by Mr. Long's fellow Ministers 

 before being uttered at such a well-advertised and crowded 

 meeting as the one mentioned, which had been held in 

 support of the War Loan. It can, therefore, be looked 

 upon as official, and as showing what the views of our own 

 Government and those of our Allies are with reference to 

 the fate of the ex-German colonies after the War. 



If there is anyone outside Central Europe who does not 

 agree with Mr. Long's pronouncement that their colonies 

 must never be returned to Germany, and we can hardly 

 believe that there can be, we would strongly recommend 

 him or her to study the following books that have recently 

 made their bow to the public : — 



(i) " The German Peril and How to Crush Prussian 

 Militarism " (published by The Russia Society, price is.), 

 by Gabriel de Wesselitsky, London correspondent of the 

 Russian paper Novoye Vremye. The book reproduced the 

 paper read by its author before a meeting of the Russia 

 Society, which crowded to overflowing the Great Central 

 Hall at Westminster, to hear what this eminent authority 

 had to tell them concerning the chief enemy of our 

 country and of every one else. 



(2) The Round Table for March, No. 26 (2s. 6d.), 

 especially the series of articles on " The New German 

 Empire" (pp. 253-284), which discusses " The Spirit of 

 German Policy, Germany's War Aims, The Eastern 

 Plan, The New German Empire. 



(3) " Germany's Lost Colonial Empire and the Essentials 

 of Reconstruction," pp. 87, price is. net. (Simpkin, 

 Marshall and Co., Ltd.), by John H. Harris, author of 

 " Dawn in Darkest Africa," of which book the late Lord 

 Cromer wrote in the Preface that he contributed to it ; 

 " Mr. Harris has acquired a firm grasp of the main prin- 

 ciples which should guide Europeans who are called upon 

 to rule over a backward and primitive society, and of the 

 fact that prolonged neglect of these principles must sooner 

 or later lead to failure or even disaster. He writes as a 

 fair-minded and thoroughly well-informed observer." 



Lord Cromer was right. Germany never has been able, 

 apparently, to acquire a firm grasp of any sort of prin- 

 ciples, whether they concerned the white or black race, 

 and most assuredly has failure overtaken all her efforts, 

 built up as she has been on concrete a hundred feet down, 

 and surrounded by men a thousand deep with drawn 

 bayonets always bristling for war. The very weight of 

 the base has caused it to sink in the mud of Germany's 



