War no Remedy.

And now, having drifted steadily from the old atmosphere of “high politics” to an atmosphere of distressful and resentful “econopolitics,” is there a danger of a flash back? It was a saying in the last century that a cure for domestic distress was a successful war; and some people believed that a vein of similar psychology in Napoleon III. threw him and France into the Prussian trap in 1870. To attempt to draw a people's attention from ills at home to glorious war abroad is at best a gamble. And since a warfare of trenches, covering years, has replaced the Sedans and Waterloos, war as a remedy for anything seems more than ever incredible. What can war create except bankruptcy? And yet in recent months the rumour of a new war has grown up in Europe, and is growing still.