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Show 1 ! 1 "NJ COMMENTS ON S CURRENT TOPICS BY Jj NATIONAL CHARACTERS GERMANY AND PEACE tL Ey RAMSAY Mac.DONAL-D Prime Minister of Great Britain yERMANY has acted in such lif' VI a way as to destroy the feel-jng feel-jng of mutual confidence in Eu- rope. It lias 'broken up the road tS 11 8! peace and beset It with terrors. It "juifa' laims a measure of armed power V which puts most of the nations of Eu-11 Eu-11 !& rope at its mercy. St,k Every reflecting, reasonable German "Hi must see the force of the point I am making. He must know in his heart i; that Berlin is not enough, that in fact it has upset very much more than it has pacified. Germany is arming, It alleges, to satisfy honor and self-respect, and makes the further allegation ' that the scale of its armaments is only : enough to make itself secure. Leaving the honor argument out of m 1 .account for the moment, how can it . profess to be blind to the effect which its colossal armaments must have on "el; the sense of security of other nations? "You must trust me," it replies. "I , " assure you I have no designs upon 1Cf t |