BY E. F. BENSON HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON     NEW YORK     TORONTO MCMXVII   DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLAH I T was commonly said at the beginning of this war that, whatever Germany’s military resources might be, she was hopelessly and childishly lacking in diplomatic ability and in knowledge of psychology, from which all success in diplomacy is distilled. As instances of this grave defect, people adduced the fact that apparently she had not anticipated the entry of Great Britain into the war at all,