It begins to look grievously as if the Alles were wobbling in their determination to get hold of both the ex-Kaiser and the 800 specified war criminsis. When Holland first} declined to give up the former, the Allies were understood to be quite determined to renew their demand for him in a manner that would brook no refusal. Now a telegram of February 13 says that it is understood that the Supreme Council's reply to the Dutch Note "will not. repeat the demand for the surrender of the ex-Kaiser, but will point out; the undesirability of retaining him: in Holland both in the interests Holland and of the peace of Europe." In the same telegram we are told that Germany has declined to surrender the war criminals (as she engaged to do in the Peace Treaty), but has offered to try them before 2 German tribunal. To-day we hear that the Allies do not oppose, this trial but reserve to themselves the right to say afterwards whether it appears to have been satisfactory. This surely is very weak. The whole object of the demand for, the surrender of the war criminals was to give an object lesson to the world in general and Germany in particular in the unprofitable nature of the evil deeds they had committed. No amount of trials in Germany itself will have the effect
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