The present conditions, however, seem to me to give no cause for
alarm."
"That is where I think you are wrong," Hannaway Wells declared.
"If the Labour Party in Germany were as strong as ours, they would
be strong enough to overthrow the Hohenzollern clique, to stamp
out the militarism against which we are at war, to lay the
foundations of a great German republic with whom we could make the
sort of peace for which every Englishman hopes. The danger, the
real danger which we have to face, would lie in an amalgamation of
the Labour Party, the Socialists and the Syndicalists in this
country, and in their insisting upon treating with the weak Labour
Party in Germany."
"I agree with the Bishop," Julian pronounced. "The unclassified
democracy of our country may believe itself hardly treated, but
individually it is intensely patriotic. I do not believe that its
leaders would force the hand of the country towards peace, unless
they received full assurance that their confreres in Germany were
able to assume a dominant place in the government of that country
--a place at least equal to the influence of the democracy here."
Doctor Lennard glanced at the speaker a little curiously. He had
known Julian since he was a boy but had never regarded him as
anything but a dilettante.
"You may not know it," he said, "but you are practically
expounding the views of that extraordinary writer of whom we were
speaking--Paul Fiske."
"I have been told," the Bishop remarked, cracking a walnut, "that
Paul Fiske is the pseudonym of a Cabinet Minister.
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