THE NEUTRALITY PARTY.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15037, 4 August 1914, Page 9

THE NEUTRALITY PARTY.

"THE TIMES" ON BRITAIN'S DUTY. (Received August 4th, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 3. Tho British Neutrality Committeo has issued a statement signed by Lord Courtney and Mr Ramsay McDonald, M.P., protesting against the contention that Britain is bound to join in the war to assist France. Sixty members of Cambridge University havo signed an appeal for British neutrality. "Tho Times" says the war is a grim -atire upon tho professions of peace yet fresh upon the lips of thoso who havo plunged tho Continent into its miseries and calamities. Tlie blame falls mainly upon Germany. Sho speaks when iv earnest and sho made demands at St. Petersburg and Paris which no Government could entertain. Tho invasion of Luxemburg shows how Germany eeps her word. "Wo w-ill not tolerate German hegemony in Europe. We reply that * .vo shall fight against such a calamity. If any individual member of the Cabinet dissents from this view the sooner ho quits the Government the better." "Tho Times" adds that a few hours of unprecedented crisis !h£*lo sufficed, to how tho foe that tho democracies of tho British Empire stand firm and united.