4. "What do you propose to do about the submarine menace?"

5. "You don't _really_ think we are too proud to fight, do
you?"

6. "Are you in favour of National Training for Americans?"

7. "Do you expect to win outright, or are both sides going to
fight themselves to a standstill?"

_And_

8. "Why can't you Britishers be a bit kinder in your attitude
to us?"




CHAPTER TWO


Let us take this welter of interrogation categorically, and endeavour
to frame such answers as would occur to the average Briton to-day.

But first of all, let it be remembered that the average Briton of
to-day is not the average Briton of yesterday. Three years ago he was
a prosperous, comfortable, thoroughly insular Philistine. He took a
proprietary interest in the British Empire, and paid a munificent
salary to the Army and Navy for looking after it. There his Imperial
responsibilities ceased. As for other nations, he recognized their