whose brilliant achievements
in our University we are all so proud, to ask his question."

"Very well," said the chairman in no good will.

"Allow me to thank Mr. Allen for his courtesy," said Larry. "Further I
wish to say that though by birth, by training, and by conviction I am a
pacifist and totally opposed to war, yet to-night I have been profoundly
impressed by the imposing array of facts presented by the speaker and
by the arguments built upon these facts, and especially by the fine
patriotic appeal with which Mr. Allen closed his address. But I am not
satisfied, and my question is this--"

"Will not Mr. Gwynne come to the platform?" said Mr. Allen.

"Thank you," said Larry, "I prefer to stay where I am, I am much too
shy."

Cries of "Platform! Platform!" however, rose on every side, to which
Larry finally yielded, and encouraged by the cheers of his fellow
students and of his other friends in the audience, he climbed upon the
platform. His slight, graceful form, the look of intellectual strength
upon his pale face, his modest bearing, his humorous smile won sympathy
even from those who were impatient at the prolonging of the meeting.

"Mr. Chairman," he began with an exaggerated look of fear upon his face,
"I confess I am terrified by the position in which I find myself, and
were it not that I feel deeply the immense importance of this question
and the gravity of the appeal with which the speaker closed his address,
I would not have ventured to say a word. My first question is this: Does
not Mr. Allen greatly exaggerate the danger of war with Germany? And my
reasons for this question are these. Every one knows that the relations
between Great Britain and Germany have been steadily improving during
the last two or three years. I note in this connection a statement made
only a few months ago by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston
Churchill. It reads as follows:

"'The Germans are a nation with robust minds and a high sense of honour
and fair play. They look at affairs in a practical military spirit.
They like to have facts put squarely before them. They do not want them
wrapped up lest they should be shocked by them, and relations between
the two countries have steadily improved during the past year. They have
steadily improved side by side with every evidence of our determination
to maintain our naval supremacy.'

"These words spoken in the British House of Commons give us Mr. Winston
Churchill's