This is a great fallacy for two reasons: first because Germany has always intended to have some one else pull the chestnuts out of the fire for her, and second because we cannot internationalise labour.

English and German workmen may come together on matters affecting their craft and the conditions of their labour, but at heart one remains a German and one an Englishman, with separate interests and a separate outlook." "Well, at the end of it all," Mr.Mervin Brown said, "the bogey is war.
What sort of a war?
An invasion of England is just as impossible to-day as it was twenty years ago." Nigel nodded.
"I cannot answer your question," he admitted.

"I was looking to Jesson's report to give us an idea as to that." "You shall see it to-morrow," Mr.Mervin Brown promised.

"It is round at the War Office at the present moment." "Without seeing it," Nigel went on, "I expect I can tell you one startling feature of its contents.

It suggested, did it not, that the principal movers against us would be Russian and China and--a country which you prefer just now not to mention ?" "But that country is our ally!" Mr.Mervin Brown exclaimed.
Nigel smiled a little sadly.
"She has been," he admitted.