It is some years since my father and I were in New York.

But my opinion is not very different from that of the forceful men who have planned this war--that with Britain as a base the control of the American continent is under existing conditions the task of a couple of months.
I remember a conversation with Doctor Dohrn, the head of the great biological station at Naples, some four or five years ago.

He was complaining of want of adequate subventions from Berlin.

"Everything is wanted for the Navy," he said.

"And what really does Germany want with such a navy ?" I asked.