p. 7 | Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 6, 1910

Note and Comment

Not of Peace

THE Washington Post’s survey of the international situation indicates that the dominant note at the opening of 1910 is not of peace. The persistent talk of trouble between England and Germany threatens to precipitate trouble. Germany is prepared to concentrate half a million men at half a day’s notice, and two million in a fortnight. It is added:—

It is one of the dire elements of the situation that a European war at the present time could not possibly be fought out between those two nations without involving other nations, and so widely spread and intricate is this web of international alliance that it might easily throw practically the entire world into turmoil.

Of the Asiatic situation it is said:—

The vast Indian empire, with its population of three hundred million, is slowly drifting toward a great crisis. The awakening of the far East has been one of the historical phenomena of the last two decades. Japan was the first to assert herself, China has since been rapidly forging to the front, and now India, the last of the great nations of the East, stimulated by the success of Japanese arms over one of the supposedly great armies of Europe, is beginning to plan her own future independence.