SCENES IN THE GREAT WAR
And when she hears the truculent boast of our enemy that after he has disposed of Russia, he will destroy Italy as a Power in Europe, she answers calmly, "Yes, when the last Roman capable of bearing arms lies dead in Roman soil—perhaps then, but not sooner."
THE PART PLAYED BY THE NEUTRAL NATIONS
And then the neutral countries—what is the
part which they have played in the drama of the
past 365 days? I think I may fairly claim to
have had better opportunities than most people
for studying one aspect of it, its moral aspect, and
therefore I trust I may be forgiven if I make a
personal reference. Seeing, in the earliest days
of the war, that Germany was doing her best to
divert the eye of the world from the crime she
had committed in Belgium, and being convinced
that Britain's hope both now and in the future
lay in keeping the world's eye fixed on that
outrage, I moved the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph
to the publication of "King Albert's Book."
What that great book was it must be quite unnecessary to say, but it may be permitted to the editor to claim that it constituted the first (as it may well be the final) impeachment of the
