to discuss the Economics of War.

     Firstly

    , to make rules by which war may be conducted with the least possible damage to Vested Interests.

     Secondly

    , to reduce the cost of war by the use of methods which, while putting a soldier out of action, will not injure him beyond the possibility of repair for use in another War.

    Today the Peace Palace is to let and Andrew Carnegie, who built it, is dead, but another Conference (called by Woodrow Wilson) is to be held in Geneva which, Peter Simple hopes, will abolish War forever.

    The inhabitants of Holland are the most Moral and Patriotic people in the World, and their army is second to none in bravery and won the World War.

     BELGIUM

    Belgium may be compared to a Hollandaise Sauce with a piquant Gallic flavour.

    Belgium is the Bridgeway from Prussia to France, and King Albert of Belgium is the modern Horatius who

     “ ... facing fearful odds,

     For the ashes of his fathers

     And the temples of his Gods,”

    kept “the bridge” in the brave days of 1914.

    Crowns are not as fashionable today as they were in 1914, but the Crown of King Albert is of the sort that will never be out of style, and besides being a perfect fit, is strikingly becoming to him.

    When Julius Cæsar described the Belgians as the “Bravest of all the Gauls” he was a Prophet as well as a Historian.

    The inhabitants of Belgium are the most Moral and Patriotic people in the World, and if they hadn’t “kept the bridge” the World War could never have been won.

     FRANCE

    France 

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