Another revelation of the Teutonic mind is shown in Germany's suddenly changed attitude toward neutrals, the direct result of the successful dismemberment of Russia and the visions of prosperity opened up by dreams of further conquest in the East.

Germany is acting like a swaggering bully in its new policy toward Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Spain.

In spite of solemn promises Germany has torpedoed more Spanish ships in the last few weeks than in the whole previous period of the war, finally forcing out of office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching out almost to the Pole, demanding of Russia, the abandonment of claims to Spitzbergen and seeking a conference through which it can juggle Norway out of her colonization prospects with a view to developing the island's coal beds and phosphoric deposits.

These actions are antagonizing the last friends the Huns have left in Europe. They would be puzzling in any other nation, but Germany considers itself so strong owing to the collapse of Russia that it can expand in the north as well as in the east and can afford to flout the Scandinavian nations.

Junkers and Pan-Germanists now in the saddle in Germany are so drunk with the power gained by their new conquests that they appear to think they can defy all the world. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." --New York Herald.