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Show SAYS mm Sill j NOT YIELDVERYSOOry Writer in the London Observer, Ob-server, However, Believes Kaiser's Case Hopeless. (Special Cable .by Arrangement With LonSon Dally TeleeraDh and International News Service.) LONDON, - Dec. 26. J. L. Garvin, writing writ-ing in the London Observer, says: "For some period to come we must expect no direct confession of disappointment disappoint-ment from Berlin. The psychology of the entire race is too deeply saturated with the menace of boastfulness and too wholly possessed Jjy egotistical fantasy. We are still dealing with a veritable obsession ob-session imposed by the. habits and education educa-tion of their Uvea upon more than sixty millions of people. "Thev are still determinedly deceiving themselves, as well as beincr prohibited from giving open expression to their doubt. "The German nation is not trained in political liberty like the Engllsh-speaKing stooks, nor is it enjoying real political self-government. They can ho more-criticise their rulers at present than the Prussian rank and file can resist, their officers. "Before there is any effective change in that respect, first a great crash will have to come on some aide. Somber disappointment will have to be succeeded by the fear of a catastrophe. "Premier Viviani's thrilling speech to the r&assembled chamber of' deputies pledges France never to lay clown her arms until Belgium is restored and secured, se-cured, until Alsace-Lorraine h-s been regained re-gained forever, and until full indemnity has been exacted. "These views are . In entire accordance with the aims and temper of the British and Russian policies. It is worth while . to lengthen this most terrible of wars for the sake of a more thorough and durable solution. "We suggest no facile progress for the allies, but, on the contrary, foreshadow an ordeal sterner and .longer than we have already passed through. "Germany, that drew the sword, shall perish by the sword. "Until every foot of Belgian and French soil has been evacuated, until there is full reconstruction in eastern Europe upon i a basis of Siav equality and racial re- , union, peace can never be granted or dis- pimspd. ! "Bitter is it to yield, but worse Is it j to bleed to death. Germany is an empire (blockaded by land and sea. and the longer 1 she continues the struggle the less will be her power to win-" |