Lady K----, as kindly an old lady as ever lived, said to me the other day: "A great honour has come to us.

Our son has been killed in battle, fighting for the safety of England." Now, the question which nobody seems to be able to answer is this: How can the military party and the military spirit of Germany be prevented from continuing to prepare for the conquest of Great Britain and from going to work to try it again?
That implies a change in the form, spirit, and control of the German Empire.

If they keep up a great army, they will keep it up with that end more or less in view.

If the military party keeps in power, they will try it again in twenty-five or forty years.

This is all that the English care about or think about.
They don't see how it is to be done themselves.