Socialist policy is the valve we are bound to open in order to let off the superfluous steam, otherwise the boiler will burst.

In the second place, none of us Ministers can take upon ourselves the false pretence of using _sabotage_ with regard to peace.

The nations may perhaps tolerate the tortures of war for a while, but only if they understand and have the conviction that it cannot be otherwise--that a _vis major_ predominates; in other words, that peace can fail owing to circumstances, but not owing to the ill will or stupidity of the Ministers.
The German-Bohemian Deputy, K.H.Wolf, made a scene when the speech from the throne was read in the "Burg"; he declared that we were mad and would have to account for it to the delegation, and made many other equally pleasant remarks, but he had also come to a wrong conclusion about the Customs dues and Stockholm.
You are quite right in saying that it is no concern of Germany's what we do in the interior.

But they have not attempted the slightest interference with the dues.

If they are afraid of an anti-German rate of exchange and, therefore, are in favour of the dues, we are to a certain extent to blame.