MENACING SHADOWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 23 November 1917, Page 4

MENACING SHADOWS.

E. J. Dillon, as a conclusion to an elaborate article 011 "The Allies' Task,' appearing in tflie 'Fortnightly Review,' sets forth the reason, to him supreme why Germany must not be allowed to -win this war—a reason involving the peace of Europe: . "In my judgment, the peace of Europe after this wax can be guaranteed in- only one of two ways: by the Germans renouncing the will or losing the power to go on with their scheme for the over-lordship of the human race. I do not claim that the Allies are still in a position to choose and realise either of these alternatives, but only that there is no third issue out of the tangle. Some assure us that the more hopeful, method of the two is by influencing the will of the German people, and that this can best be done by democratising their institutions. Faith in the democratic spirit is good provided that its concrete embodi-. ment is also promising. "But the Teutons who have fashioned Christianity, culture, and so much else after their own : national iirage are certain to subject democracy to the same process.. We ore too prone to look upon Germany's inordinate ambitions as emanations from a few bellicose fanatics which will cease with the disappearance of the military class. To my thinking, they have not one but many cources, some of which lie much deeper than is commorly assumed. And even athwart the democratised atmosphere of a German Central Europe the competent observer esj&a aenaeiag fikidows." . '