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a Germano-Austrian Alliance adopted by the
Parliaments of both realms, and
constitutionally incorporated in the fundamental law of
both States. This proposal may have hardly
any practical result, but it is worth notice as
one of the small rays of light which from time
to time point the way to a common goal.
Thither point too, though indeed from afar,
those propositions for disarmament which now
and then crop up, but which, quite naturally,
fade away as quickly as they come, so long as
the principle of arbitration does not prevail in
Europe.
“Europe’s only salvation is a general
disarmament,” cries the illustrious Frenchman
Jules Simon, and yet louder the Italian
ex-minister, Bonghi. The latter a distinguished
Conservative statesman, utters these powerful
words in the International Review (Rome).
“The ideas of peace, which I have just expressed and
which are also entertained by the masses, sound almost
like a jest in the menaces of war which we hear around us.
And they are ridiculous if the policy which the Government
follows is considered serious. The great thing is to be able
to guess how long the ludicrous shall be regarded as
serious, and the serious as ludicrous; and how long a
proceeding so devoid of sound reason as that of the great
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