Even from his enemies—and doubtless they are still numerous—-will Lord Haldane's courage extort a certain admiration. He has just thanked Germany for having produced Einstein, and this coming from a man whose spiritual home was alleged to be in Germany, is no common thing to say. When the nation was floundering in search of the correct path towards victory, the howl of execration which remembrance of this unfortunate phrase led to will be well remembered. It had even more to do with Lord Haldane's exit from the political stage than the "Wait and see' of Mr. As-quite. Lord Haldane, we believe, has since explained the connexion in which these words were used, but such explanations are seldom convincing to the masses, and in making his most recent utterance he must have known how it would recall his alleged pro-Germanism of old. Yet on the whole the facts are in favour of Lord Haldane as an asset to the Empire. In the first place he comes of a very fine fighting family, members of which did excellent work before and during the war, and it was under his administration that the Expeditionary Force attained the remarkable efficiency which enabled it to play such an effective part in the first stages of the war. Above all we have the malign tribute which Admiral von Tirpitz pays to him for his part in preventing the full efficiency of the German Fleet before the war. ''Tirps" considered that Lord Haldane's visit to Germany a year or two before the outbreak of hostilities robbed the Germans of haif-1- dozen battleships, and he thus pays. tribute to him:—
Haldane makes me think of the words of the American who said to a German Admiral that if he got together the Yeading statesmen of England and Germany whom he know, and put them opposite each other at a conference table, he would be surprised if at the end of the negotiations we still retained Potsdam, And Lord Haldane is no longer a statesman, but is studying relativity,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.