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arrival of Baron Marschall \'im liieberstein. lie 

 writes : — 



Practically the only diplomatic weapon wc need is brutal frank- 

 ness. We have to convince the Baron that England is determined 

 to maintain her Naval position at all costs and whatever happens, 

 so that it may become clear to (Jermans that their shipbuilding 

 race is a futile pursuit, and may be wisely exchanged for a 

 sound one ; for bargains that are really tangible ; lands, it may 

 be, that. are really habitable ; railway concessions and what not 

 that are not extortions, such as the no-white man's territory cut 

 out of Morocco. 



The question of England and Germany is none the less the 

 great issue of twentieth-century Europe. It can be decided in 

 three ways only: (I) War; (2) a Treaty between the two 

 countries agreeing to a limitation of Naval armaments, allowing 

 England always what experts would call a fighting margin of 

 superiority ; (3) our setting to work to build so monstrously 

 powerful a Navy that Germany never could have the smallest 

 chance of catching us up, when, it is conceivable, she might 

 herself see the folly of the waste. Whatever other Treaty may 

 be arranged, it will alter nothing. 



Baron Marschall cannot hope to diplomatise us. . . . The 

 only three things that he need have in mind always are these : 

 that we are determined to maintain our Naval superiority ; that 

 we are bound to an understanding with France ; that the 

 English people thoroughly realise the gravity of the problem 

 as it presents itself to the Island Empire, at the present lime, 

 economically, owing to the vast expenditure on ships needful, 

 and in the future, militarily, tlie fatal issue of which would 

 decide the destiny of this country. 



iui/iiC Hlatur.\ 



The Travelled Marschall. 

 His proiaess is written on his face. 



[licrlin. 



A GREAT FRENCH PACIFIST. 



An Ai'i'REciATioN OF M. FRfiofiRic Passy. 

 In the first Tunc number of La Revue M. Jean Finot 

 publishes an appreciation of the life and work of 

 M. Frederic Passy, on the occasion of the pacifist's 

 ninetieth birthday, a week or two before his death. 



DISTINGUISHED IN MANY SPHERES. 



In the march towards better times M. Passy, among 

 writers and thinkers, is the man who, perhaps, made 

 the most headway, writes M. Finot. Since 1846, when 

 he inaugurated his work, he never ceased to work for 

 humanity. As a: professor of political economy he 

 published a dozen volumes which will ensure him a 

 position of authority, as a lecturer he travelled all over 

 France to spread the ideas of justice, as a journalist he 

 wrote articles of rare intellectual elevation, and as a 

 politician and deputy he shone as an orator, whose 

 courage was equalled only by the nobility of his prin- 

 ciples. He was also a talented poet, and he has left the 

 world a number of volumes of poetry. 



A NOBLE PATRIOT. 



hX the risk of being regarded a madman or an enemy 

 of his country, he proclaimed the cause of arbitration. 

 Not only was he one of the founders of the idea, but 

 he was its initial and vivif)-ing soul. He was always 

 ready to distinguish between the crimes of a war under- 

 taken from the offensive and the virtues of a war 

 undertaken for the defensive. Defence he considered 

 sacred, but aggression culpable. It is his glory and his 

 merit that he made any confusion between a pacifist 

 and an anti-patriot impossible. Life will carry on his 

 dream. Penetrated with the benefits of peace, the 

 necessity of simultaneous disarmament will be 

 preached. M. Passy e.xalted the duties of citizens 

 in regard to their country. He held that it was neces- 

 sary to believe in one's country, humanity and progress, 

 and especially in personal obligation to work for these 

 things. He was thus a patriot in the grand and noble 

 sense of the word. He wished PVance to be very strong 

 and very happy in the midst of other nations equally 

 strong and happy. By every act he showed that it was 

 possible to be a most tender and affectionate son of his 

 country without ceasing to respect the country of others. 

 Not Too Old at Seventy. 



Another article on M. Passy, by Herr Alfred H. 

 Fried, appears in the [une number of the Friedensivarte. 

 At the age of seventy, says Herr Fried, most people 

 would be glad to enjoy a little quiet after their life's 

 work, but with M. I'assy it may be said it was then 

 that the most productive period of his life's work was 

 begun. He had no time to play the tired old man. He 

 was to be seen at Peace Congresses, Interparliamentary 

 Conferences, the sittings of the Bern Bureau, and other 

 important assemblies. He was indeed the embodiment 

 of the pacifist tradition. No fanatic of peace, he was 

 none the less the Patriarch and the Apostle of the 

 Peace Movement. His highest success in paciJist work 

 lay in the domain of organisation. 



