It was pointed out that the English Navy was jealously defending the dominion of the seas, that France and Russia stood ready armed for the attack, and that Germany was only in a similar position to any other state; that every state strengthened and equipped its defensive forces as thoroughly as possible.
By the term "Prussian militarism" England did not only mean the strength of the German army.

She understood it to be a combination of a warlike spirit bent on oppressing others, and supported by the best and strongest army in the world.

The first would have been innocuous without the second; and the splendid German army was in England's eyes the instrument of a domineering and conquest-loving autocrat.
According to England's view, Germany was exactly the counterpart of France under Bonaparte--if for Napoleon be substituted a many-headed being called "Emperor, Crown Prince, Hindenburg, Ludendorff"-- and just as little as England would treat with Napoleon would she have any dealings with the individual who to her was the personification of the lust for conquest and the policy of violence.
The notion of the existence of German militarism seems to be quite justified, although the Emperor and the Crown Prince played the smallest part in it.

But it seems to me an altogether wrong conception that militarism is a speciality of Germany.

The negotiations at Versailles must now have convinced the general public that it is not only on the banks of the Spree that militarism reigns.
Germany in former days was never able to understand that on the enemy continent, by the side of morally unjustified envy, fear and anxiety as to Germany's plans practically reigned, and that the talk about the "hard" and "German" peace, about "victory and triumph" was like throwing oil on the flames of their fears; that in England and France, too, at one time, there was a current of feeling urging for a peace of settlement, and that such expressions as the foregoing were highly detrimental to all pacifist tendencies.
In my opinion the air raids on England may be ranked in the same category as these expressions.