PEACE MOVEMENT IN HUNGARY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2754, 25 April 1916, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT IN HUNGARY

EFFECT OF MR. ASQUITH'S RECENT ' SPEECH .._ DEMAND FOR OPENING OF NEGOTIATIONS By Telegraph—Fress Association—CoDyrlelit ... . London, April 23. The ' "Daily Telegraph" states that Mr. Asquith's speech of April 10. has attracted much attention in Hungary, • where tho peace movement is growing, owing to' the belief that Germany intends to break up Austria-Hungary into small autonomous States, in order that she may easily swallow them lip later. "As E3t,|' tho leading vernacular newspaper iu Budapest,', eays.'.tllat;,all sane men approve Mr. Asquith's claration that tho Allies do not i?anli to crush Germany. The only 'object o? the Allies, is. to prevent the recurrence of the present carnage. Tho newspapers "Vilag" and'•'•'Pc-sti Naplo," in'a similar iv'ay, demand the V opening of peace 'negotiations .on..tha basis of Mr, Asquith's declaration.,;: [In the course of a speech .'iit a dinner to Frcnch Parliamentarians visiting London, Mr. Asqiiith said: "The terms ' upon which .we will conclude peaco are the accomplishment of tho purposes for which we took up arms. The • Allies intend to pave the .way to an' inter-* nationa} system of securing the rights of all civilised States, and intend to es< '' tablisli tho principle that International problems must be naaidled by free nego< tiations on equal terms between fre« peoples, unhampered and unswayed bjf the over-mastering dictation cf a Gov< ernment controlled by a military caste; That is'what I mean by' the dcsrruo; tion of Prussian militarism—nothing more nothing less.; We are in this struggle as champions' not only of treaty rights, but of the independent status and free development of the weaker countries."]