That would leave the Germans with Germany and a secure peace--no obliteration or any other wild nonsense, but only a secure peace.

Let 'em go back home, pay for the damage they've done, and then stay there.

I do hope that the actual fighting will be ended by Christmas of next year.

Of course it _may_ end with dramatic suddenness at any time, this being the only way, perhaps, for the Kaiser to save his throne.

Or it may go on for two or three years.