No Peace by the German Sword
In view of recent developments, it had been hoped that the Kaiser would make his birthday festivities the occasion for a new peace move, or at least for another step along the lines already laid out. On the contrary, he marked his fifty-eighth anniversary by another declaration that Germany would obtain peace by the sword, saying, according to dispatches. The unshakable will to victory of the German people, who are prepared for the sacrifice of the land and peace, will, I trust, preserve the Fatherland from the ruin contemplated by it. Enemies, and will force by the sword the peace necessary for the blessed peace of the people. If the allies contemplated that "ruin of the Fatherland" which he conjures up to inspire the German people to greater sacrifice, peace by the sword would be Germany's only hope. Victory, however impossible in the end, would be the only goal toward which Germans could look. But the absolute crushing of Germany is no part of the allied plan now, however deeply it may have entered into allied hopes and purposes earlier in the war. What the nations of the entente now demand is approved by the rest of the world, the breaking of Prussian militarism. 