The issue concerning the German Republic is worth watching carefully. The proposal strengthen it_by including Independent Socialists in the Government has alarmed the middle class, we are told to-day, and swung them towards the Monarchical People's Party. This is more likely to be a move towards a constitutional monarchy, which middle-class Germans would always probably have preferred to a republic, than to the Kaiserism which the Junkers desire. Outside the old Prussian squirearchy, nobody wants Kaiserism back. But the Republic, at first acclaimed, has lost popularity owing to the cost of living, depreciation of the mark and belief, sedulously fostered by the Kaiserists, that it has sold Germany to the Allies. The real trouble in, Germany is that the different classes still move in the old water-tight compartments. There is no social touch between them and consequently no political. The caches of arms which are continually being found are more likely to belong to Kaiserists plotting a coup than to any movement for revanche on the Allies, for which they would be quite inadequate,
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