Tnii Pkogkess of the World. 



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Baron Marschall von Bieberstein in London. 



Monroe Doctrine. But in this case lie will 

 not remain long in London. We niu-^t 

 not fi'igct that the j)oiity oi the German 

 rulinf!; minority is based u|)on the ideas of 

 I'Vederic the (Jreat, who said : — 



Si;il<- poliiics rciluci' llipinsclvfs lo lliri'i; principles :— 



The lii^i. to yiivttii aiul to ng(;raiiclizc oneself accontini; lo 

 circuniii. inert. 



Till.' -1 i '111(1, lo :illy oiieiilf if an .■\ilv;inla;;i- is oliiaineil. 



The iliii'l, to lu.iki; oneM-lf fe»tcd and ropvcted, even in llic 

 iiiu^t UTi!<.>\\ard eiicunulanceii. 



Kver follow this maxim : that to despoil your neighbours is 

 lo lalic away from ihein the moans of doin^j you harm. 



\\ e tear that the n'jw German Ambassador 

 will be more apt to be swayed bv these 

 tiaditional maxims than by the will ot' the 

 (ierman nation, the overwhelming majority 

 of which, according to Merr Ernest Easser- 

 mann, desire an entling of the strife and 

 mutual suspicion between the two nations. 

 We stand for ' peace, for the (jerman 

 Emperor and the German people against 

 the Prussian .lunkertum and the clerical and 

 military reactionaries. 



Wanted : Continuity '^'^^' "'^'^ ^liat We slluuld 



of have a jjcrmanent Winston 



Responsibility 



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L luirclui 



and continuitv 



Naval Affairs. j,-, ^j^g control of the 



nation's naval affairs gains ground. After 

 all, there are no real arguments advanccable 

 against the idea: it is so manifest that in 

 the Navy at any rate the country must 

 pursue the grand policy for a century to 

 come, not the fiddling attitude of the rag 

 and bone man. The two most efficient 

 navies to-day are admittedly the Japan- 

 ese and the German, and in each case 

 the principle of a permanent \\ inston 

 Churchill has been adopted. There are 

 many and precious advantages, but the 

 greatest of all is the possibility of fixing 

 responsibility, of educating the man respon- 

 sible for naval affairs, and thus for Imperial 

 existence, without the chance of a snap 

 vote on the number of buttons on an 

 officer's tunic removing the I'irsr Lord of 

 the Admiralty and re|)lacing him by some- 

 one with whom ad the work would have 

 to bei'in atrain. To-day tiiere is continuity 

 among the bureaucracy, the |)ermanent 

 officials, but there is no responsibility. The 

 permanent official can always screen him- 

 self behind the Parliamentary representa- 

 tives, and in these there is no continuity or 



