PRUSSIA'S FOURTH WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2417, 24 March 1915, Page 5

PRUSSIA'S FOURTH WAR

WITHIN LIVING MEMORY SIR EDWARD GREY SAYS THAT IT WILL BE HER LAST London, March 22. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, ill a speech in London, said that the German ideal was that the Germans were a superior people, to whom all things were lawful, and to whom all nations must be subservient. Other European nations must be free_ to live without a supremo gttar Lord's interference. Contimiing, Sir Edward Grey said: "War might have been avoided by a conference, wherever and in whatever form Germany wished. France, Italy, and Russia agreed to a conference. The dispute woulu have been far easier to settle than the Balkan crisis. Germany knew from the experience of the London Balkan Conference that sho could couut on our goodwill. AVe sought no diplomatic triumph and participated in 110 intrigue in 1913, and »'e were ready to do the same last July. "We gave Germany every assurance that we would not support aggression against her, and only withheld an unconditional promise to stand aside if Germany wore the aggressor. . Germany refused all proposals for a, settlement, and must bear the responsibility for the war. "We know now that the German Government was prepared for war as only a people who have planned for war can prepare. "This is the fourth time in living memory thai Prussia has made war, and we are determined thai, il shall be the last. The Allies' irleal is flint tlm notions of Kiirope shrill be free to work out- their own national develotihient. ».tiH lbs' iWk t-hiil bf f]t!l litany, »-h*. . tliu for ureat or small &tatei»