The stormy petrel of German journalism, Herr Maximilian Harden, has
published in Zuktinft a stinging rebuke to the authors of tire Breet-Litovsk and Bucharest Treaties: According to the extracts in Wednesday's Times, he tells them that they " have exhibited no trace of serious political morality, nowhere have they manifested either a spark of intelligence for the sacred value of the personality of peoples, or any sense of the unpardonable wantonness of gambling with nations in order to meet the interest on a tem- porary bill." By a " large-handed peace" they might have conciliated the Slays. As it is, " the fruit of their word-juggling" is universal hatred of the Germane throughout Russia, while the West is more than ever distrustful of German promites. • Herr Harden pleads for a revision of the Treaties with the Bolsheviks, but he knows as well as we do that the rulers of Germany are incapelle of generosity even when it is to their own interest.
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