"A vigorous national policy" Prince von Buelow declares to be "the true remedy against the Social Democratic Movement"; and though he makes no specific mention of war, it is obvious that a war like that in which Germany is at present engaged is the most vigorous form a national policy could possibly take.

Was the outbreak of war last August in part occasioned by the desire on the side of the German Government to win over the workers of Germany?
If so, it had yet another spectre ready to its hand for the purpose--the spectre of Russia.
[Footnote 1: _Imperial Germany_, p.

184.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_.p.

186.] In any case, with Germany in this condition, Europe could hardly have avoided a great war at some time or other; and 1914 follows naturally, almost inevitably, from 1870.

The unification of 1870 was far from complete.