CHAPTEE VII

THE REVISION OP THE TREATY AND THESETTLEMENT OP EUROPE

Shylock. I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak :I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.

The deeper and the fouler the bogs into whichMr. Lloyd George leads us, the more credit is his forgetting us out. He leads us in to satisfy our desires ;he leads us out to save our souls. He hands us downthe primrose path and puts out the bonfire just intime. Who, ever before, enjoyed the best of heavenand hell as we do ?

In England, opinion has nearly completed its swing,and the Prime Minister is making ready to win aGeneral Election on Forbidding Germany to Pay,Employment for Every one, and a Happier Europe forAll. Why not, indeed ? But this Faustus of oursshakes too quickly his kaleidoscope of halos and hell-fire, for me to depict the hues as they melt intoone another. I shall do better to construct an in-dependent solution, which is possible in the sensethat nothing but a change in the popular will is

necessary to achieve it, hoping to influence this will a

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