Confronted with a point blank demand by the Supreme Council of the Allies for the surrender of the ex-Kaiser, it will be interesting te see what reply Holland will make. The suggestion that "the Nethiex lands Government cannot regard with less reprobation than do the Allies the immense responsibilities of the ex-Emperor" etc. is ingenious, but if a legal case can be made out by Holland's jurists—she being a neutral—for refusing to surrender with, one does not quite see how any moral conviction of his personal turpitude can alter her position, without exposing her to the charge of prejudging his case. All this, of course, is mere hair-splitting. The hard facts of the situation are that it will be extremely awkward for her to give him up and still more awkward for her not to do so. For it is quite clear that the Allies mean business. Several influential people in Britaia and elsewhere have protested loudly against what appeared to them to he the injudiciousness of what they were pleased to call "making the ex-Kiaser a martyr." Contention grew so strong that in the absence of any authoritative statement by the Supreme Council, it almost began to appear as if the notion of a trial was to be dropped. Very Imnch the reverse, we now see. Meanwhile eminent jurists in Holland have been discussing the question of surrender, in various
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