LAND &? WATER 
November 14, 1918 
LAND&WATER 
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 19 18 
Contents 
PAGE 
L'AvENiR (Cartoon) 
Raemaekers 
I 
Leading Articles 
2 
The Armistice 
Hilaire Belloc 
3 
What They Have Missed 
Arthur Pollen 
5 
The Freedom of the Seas 
Butler Aspinall, K.C. 6 
U-Boat Stories 
Herman Whitaker 
7 
The Genius of Raemaekers 
8 
The Turkish Collapse 
Sir Edwin Pears 
10 
The Armenian Massacres 
H. Morgenthau 
12 
The Soldier Colonists 
14 
Words and the War 
J. C. Squire 
15 
The Theatre : Tjvelflh Night . . 
W. J. Turner 
16 
The Reader's Diary 
Peter Bell 
18 
Looking Ahead 
Hartley Withers 
20 
Household Notes 
22 
Notes on Kit 
24 
Victory 
THE war has ended with the Kaiser in Holland, 
the Americans in Sedan, and the British in Mons. 
The victory which the great mass of the Allied 
peoples, through the darkest days of adversity, 
have always felt to be certain has been achieved. 
The "unconditional surrender" that faint-hearts called a 
dream has come in all save name; the "dictated peace" 
that shocked their sensibilities will surely follow it ; the 
criminal has given himself up, and sentence will be passed. 
Victory has come, and it is the gift of the dead. Of Britons 
and colonial soldiers alone nearly one million have laid down 
their lives for a cause the triumph of which they would 
never see ; and legions more are still in our midst, maimed 
and broken. Our gratitude will be worthless if it be on our 
lips but only fleetingly in our hearts. We have a responsi- 
bility to the dead and to the living who have served and 
suffered for us and our posterity that we should carry out, 
in spirit and in letter, the aims for which they fought. And 
we have the further obligation that individually and as a 
community we should fail to take no step which may be 
necessary to guarantee the future of those whom our dead 
have left behind, or which will save us from the accusation 
that men bled for us, survived, and lost bj' their sacrifices. 
Monday Morning 
At eleven o'clock on Monday the guns, which had roared 
uninterruptedly for four years, ceased ; and silence fell on 
the opposing lines from Switzerland to the Dutch frontier. 
At the same hour explosive signals gave the news to London, 
and in a minute the streets were full of cheering, singing 
people. Bells jangled, bugles blew, bands played, and tens 
of thousands of fluttering flags sprang out from nowhere. To 
multitudes of soldiers it meant an end of their soldiering and 
a return to their homes, scores or hundreds or thousands of 
miles away. To the civil population it meant that the 
shadow of death that had hung over their young men and 
boys had passed. To thousands of Belgians who fled from 
the invader it meant an end of their exile. Scarcely a man 
or a woman in England but peace — for this was universally 
interpreted to mean peace — brought some peculiar and 
personal boon ; but over all was the knowledge that the 
object of all our efforts and sacrifices had been achieved. 
The sword, at last, though still ready in case of emergencj-, 
had been sheathed. At last, all the requirements laid down 
by the Prime Minister who in 1914, with the whole Empire 
at his back, had joined issue on our behalf were within sight 
of fulfilment. The restoration of Belgiuni, the security of 
France against "the menace of aggression " had been achieved ; 
"the military domination of Prussia" had been "completely 
and finally destroyed" ; and the fotmdation laid for "the 
liberties of the smaller nationalities of Europe." At that 
same hour in Germany huge mobs were celebrating the 
overturn of a system which, long triumphant in wickedness 
and brutality, has brought the German people to shame and 
within sight of irreparable ruin. The Red Flag {\as flying 
from the Kaiser's palace in Berlin, the machinery of govern- 
ment was everywhere being taken over by a combination 
of Majority and Minority Socialists, and the swarm of kinglets 
and grand dukes, finding their thrones rocking beneath them, 
were hurrying after their miserable chieftain who, with the 
coinage that often characterises men who are reckless with 
other people's blood, had already gone over the Dutch fr*^ti,er,- 
where loads of valuables had already preceded him. When 
some of our statesmen were sajdng that it .would be useless 
to force a new kind of constitution on the Germans and 
others — with equal force — that we could make "No Peace 
with the Hohenzollerns,'-much breath was wasted in endea- 
vours to reconcile two things. But the one possible, the one 
inevitable, solution has presented itself : a smashed and 
discredited Germany has got rid of the Hohenzollerns for 
itself. 
= Germany on her Behaviour 
It will be years, at best, before Germany can be readmitted 
on anything like an equal footing into the comity of nations. 
This conversion in extreme sickness will have to be lived up 
to and proved genuine. But the German people has at 
least taken the first essential step towards its rehabilitation. 
It has shaken the yoke from its neck, and we shall have to 
wait and see whether it can get rid of the taint from its 
heart and brain. Meanwhile, whatever changes may happen 
in Germany, however great the revulsion against her l9ng 
slavery to militarism, whatever hope there may be that 
the devil has been, exorcised, the practical measures taken 
by the Allies remain unchanged. However and whenever 
the war might have ended, we should have insisted on two 
things : (i) armistice terms which should make it impossible 
for Germany, whether autocratic or republican, to resume 
the struggle, (2) a peace of justice. Our armistice terms 
have been described as hard. They are hard. But evacua- 
tions, disarmament of troops, occupations of German towns, 
surrenders of military material and ships, cannot hurt a 
Germany Which means to surrender and throw herself on 
her mercy ; and that is the only sort of Germany with which 
we have ever proposed to deal. It would have been ridiculous 
and might have been disastrous to temper armistice terms 
merelv in order to make them look more moderate or spare 
the hypothetical feelings of the new German regime. And 
as for the peace terms, our terms to the new rdgimc will, in 
their main lines, be precisely what they would have been 
had Germany not professed regeneration. We may, and we 
hope we shall, find that the change saves us a great deal of 
trouble in the future. But even if Germany were suddenly 
taken over by Tolstoj'ans she would still be Germanj', and, 
as such, bound to make reparation for the civilian property 
she has destroyed in France, in Belgium, and at sea. And 
no change can alter the fact that^the problem of Alsace- 
I^rraine has already been sett'ed — Prussian Poland is Polish, 
and will have to be lopped off, and that the German-Fleet is 
a wanton menace, and will have to be surrendered or sunk. 
A peace of justice was always bound to be a bitter pill for a 
Germany which has lived by and for injustice. But such 
peace we shall have, and the lesson it will teach should serv 
as a warning to ambitious and arrogant men for all time that 
it does not pay to challenge the moral convictions of the 
civilised world. 
I 
THE Editor is glad to announce that Mr. Joseph 
' Conrad's new story, entitled "The Rescue," will 
shortly be published in serial.form in Land & Water. 
