posterity the drama of Marathon     and be not less famous in future ↩
history. But after a war of one year and a half Germany     ↩
has never been economically so strong and so firmly knitted ↩
together as she is now. Her military situation has improved ↩
during the last year in a marvellous way. She gets stronger the ↩
longer the war goes on. The war stimulates inventions,- she ↩
extracts now nitrates literally from the air, and if our ↩
English cousins will give as the time to prolong the war, we ↩
hope that the very difficult problem of artifical rubber shall ↩
be solved andt the food for the cows, the import of which the ↩
English have cut off, will be sapplied by organic chemistry ↩
(Hefekulturen). 1,800000 prisoners of war are at present in Germany, most of them↩
applied to some productive especially agricultural work - and help us to overcome the danger of↩
starvation with which England     threatens us.

8)          Every intelligent American, who travells now with an ↩
open eye in Germany, will agree, that Germany can wait easily ↩
until her opponents come in to accept a just and durable peace. ↩
That goal can ba attained, as Germany is not a conquering ↩
nation, but only wants freedom for her own evolution, freedom ↩
for the smaller nations, espacially those of Eastern Europe    , ↩
trodden down by Russian     despotism,- freedom of the seas¹. But ↩
the freedom of the seas so much talked of, cannot be built ↩
up by paper and paragraphs but by Germany's proving invulnerable ↩
and not to be crushed by the most formidable alliance of enemies ↩
which history has ever seen.

9)          Nobody could foretell what the conditions of the ↩
coming peace may be, as the military situation is changing by ↩
the lapse of time and on the whole changing in favour of Germany. ↩
But in one point all Germans agree: the present war in its out¬ ↩
come will be a great success of pacifism, for in any case there