Thus passes Britain's crown from King to King, Yet leaves secure a nation's deathless love, Dearer than Empire, yea, a precious thing All earthly crowns above. In the winter of 1910 the German Crown Prince visited India, and was welcomed and fêted wherever he went. _Punch_ regarded the tour as making for _rapprochement_ and represented the Prince as an amiable young sportsman writing home to "dear Papa" to say that he was "doing himself proud and finding the English not half such bad fellows when you get to know them." A more critical view of Germany's intentions is revealed in the cartoon "The Blind Side," in which a German officer applauds a Dutchman for the resolve to fortify his sea-front against England as a true economy. It might be costly, but "see what you save on the Eastern Frontier where there's nobody but us." A similar element of misgiving is betrayed in "the New Haroun Al Raschid"--a dream of Baghdad, "Made in Germany"--with the Kaiser in Oriental costume seated on the engine of a "non-stop" express to the Persian Gulf. [Illustration: A LITTLE-NAVY EXHIBIT Design for a figure of Britannia, as certain people would like to see her. (See reports of debate on the proposal to reduce expenditure on the Navy.)] [Sidenote: _The War in Tripoli_] In the spring of 1911 the proposed reduction of expenditure on the Navy inspired _Punch's_ "Little-Navy Exhibit"--a design for a figure of Britannia, "as certain people would like to see her, "with a pointless trident, diminutive shield and helmet, in spectacles and elastic-sided boots, leading a starveling lion with its tail between its legs. Simultaneously Germany's idea of the _Pax Germanica_ is satirized in a picture of the Teuton Dovecote, with cannons pointing from each door, surmounted by the German Eagle warning the Arbitration bird: "No foreign doves required; we hatch our own, thank you." Our relations with the U.S.A. are symbolized in "Dis-armageddon," President Taft and Sir Edward Grey shaking hands over a grave with the notice, "All hatchets may be buried here." Hostility to the "Declaration of London" had grown throughout the year. It had been described as "a sword for the Unionist Party"; picture posters represented the destruction under it of neutral ships carrying food to Great Britain, and _Punch_, without going the lengths of the _Morning Post_, the Imperial Maritime League, or Mr. T. Gibson Bowles, was far from enthusiastic over its ratification. "I'm sure," his Britannia remarks, looking at herself in the glass, "my costumiers want me to look my best. But I have a sort of feeling that this thing may rather hamper my sea-legs." Germany's complaints against the policy of "isolating" or "surrounding" her were now frequently heard, and are unsympathetically treated in the portrait of the German officer in full uniform, with his knuckles to his eyes, dolorously protesting, "Nobody loves me--and they all want