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Show MORE CAUSTIC COMMENT BY THE BRITISH PRESS LONDON. Pec. '2T. The promptness of the German government's reply to President Pres-ident Wilson's note is characterized by the evening newspapers as evidence of Germany's eagerness to bring the war to an end. The standard says: "It would be a mistake to neglect the German peace maneuvers, but it would be oven more f;i tal to waste time over them. Wc trust the government will cue President Wilson a perfecily courteous, cour-teous, but also a definite, repl;,- and then get on with the war as energetically as possible. " The Pali Mall Gazette fay: "( -Jet many has n t been slow to seize the advantages given Iter by President Wilson's diplomacy. Tt would be a renl triumph for Germany to have herself re-omtized re-omtized as the wire puller of the power who lets her su bmarines opera te with impunity and which lectured her in the name of all the cardinal irtues. It won id t pa ch the wot Id tha t. let t ing t It? Americans do the talking. Germain- understands un-derstands how to set her own wav eventually event-ually in the sphere of practical politics. |