You have never seen such a rally as that which has taken place in response to Sir Edward's cry.

In the first place, as you know, he is the most gentle of all the Cabinet, the last man to get on a "war-rampage," the least belligerent and rambunctious of the whole lot.

When he felt moved to say that there can be no peace till the German military despotism is broken, everybody from one end of the Kingdom to the other seems to have thrown up his hat and applauded.

Except the half-dozen peace-cranks in the House (Bryan sort of men) you can't find a man, woman, child, or dog that isn't fired with the determination to see the war through.

The continued talk about peace which is reported directly and indirectly from Germany--coming from Switzerland, from Rome, from Washington--has made the English and the French very angry: no, "angry" isn't quite the right word.