UNAFRAID OF RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 6

UNAFRAID OF RUSSIA

MR, BLATCHF.ORD'S HOPES OF A ■ : NEW PEACE ERA. ■ Mr. Robert Blatchford writes in tho ""Clarion": . I met a man who has long been one of : the , most , uncompromising and active of the pacificist leaders. 'He stopped to talk with me, and he told me, much to my surprise, -that he was now on our side. "I see now," ho said, "tint we could not have kept out of the war." And he added, "But I am afraid of Russia." I do wish these chaps would bo content to do right because it is right and not beafraid ofanything. For my part I am not afraid of Russia. Not that I trust Emperors or Kaisers. Indeed, I have- learnt sorrowfully that this is a wicked world. But assuming that we cart put the Kaiser in his place, I do not. see any cause to fear Russia. By the time we have settled accounts with Germany I think' we shall all of ns have supped full of horrors. I do not believe that Europe will want another war foi a very long while. On the contrary, I am hoping for n federation of the European States from Norway to Italy as a guarantee of peace. Let France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Portugal, and Spain form an alliance for the preservation of the status quo, and there will be no need to fear Russia or any other Power. Let us have an armed, enlightened, democratic Europe handed in an open alliance for the preservation of peace; and let any autocrat or. bandit break thepeaco at his Eeril.