Germany is surely not a convert to sound Christian principles. She will not repent for her crimes. She does not feel the tortures of remorse at her foul deeds. She would certainly be a relapser, in the near future, if the Allies, unwisely heeding the clamour of the "_pacifists_", imprudently gratified her ACTUAL wish for a peace compromise. And before long Humanity would be forced to go again, in much aggravated conditions, over the way of the cross she has been threading along for nearly five years, steeped to the knees in the blood of millions of her heroic sons, with a reorganized Germany this time straining all the Huns' accumulated power to lead Civilization to her Calvary. With God's grace, that shall not be. Five years of martyrdom have deserved and will receive JUSTICE. After having explained what Germany, from her stand-point, considers a JUST AND DURABLE PEACE, let us see what such a peace means from the Allies' stand-point. Every free man has a right to his own opinion. However, he must never forget that Liberty of opinion does not mean--never meant--absence of knowledge, ignorance of the basic principles of political society. I do not hesitate to expound what the real conditions of the coming peace MUST BE to make it JUST AND DURABLE. Let the inveterate opponents of Political Liberty say what they please, it is undeniable that the present war has rapidly developed into a deadly conflict between Autocratic Power and Political Freedom. Consequently a peace patched up to uphold Autocracy and destroy free institutions could not be JUST and DURABLE. Under the dominating circumstances of the present struggle, to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion, peace, to be Just and Durable, must be restored with all the necessary guarantees that Political Liberty will hereafter be safe against the foul attempts of military despotism. This _sine qua non_ condition is general in its nature and equally interests all the contending Allied nations. Let us now consider the peace conditions which, though of general importance so far as they are NECESSARY for its permanency, are essential from the particular stand-point of each one of the Allies separately. I shall begin the review by considering the particular case of Great Britain. To be JUST and DURABLE for the British Empire, the future peace treaty must not be so drafted as to supersede British sea supremacy by that of Germany. The question of what is to be done with the great German African Colonies, conquered by the South African Dominion army, is next in importance to England's sea supremacy, from the British Empire stand-point. Germany, very far from foreseeing what was to happen, deliberately opened that question when she precipitated the present conflict by coercing Austria to crush weak Servia, herself challenging Russia and France, and thundering at Belgium in violation of her most sacred treaty obligations.