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xxvi. to war "in a Russian quarrel" because they "were tied to France in the dark."

Trace out the story in these despatches of the Belgian diplomatists, and you will find that the genesis of that happening lay—as the present writer has contended since August, 1914—in the secret bargain which sought to consolidate the British position in Egypt, contrary to reiterated national pledges, by handing over Morocco to France and by the determination arrived at, without the knowledge of our peoples to support that secret bargain at the risk of promoting a war of the world.

'Secret Diplomacy" has proved itself the most potent of all weapons for the destruction of the peoples. So long as this weapon remains at the disposal of the British Foreign Office, so long as a few men can manipulate it to sport with the national destinies, so long will the British people be as helpless as the coloured balls which the professional juggler tosses and catches to the plaudits of the crowd.


 * January 1, 1921.