THE DUTY OF NEUTRALS
(Route's Tolejram.) London, Ootobor 23. Viscount Grey, referring to President Wilson's advocacy that neutrals should participate in securing the peace of the future, said that in order to make that proposition effective neutral nations must bo prepared to use force to compel the observance of treaties to' keep the peace. We must also come to an agreement after the war regarding the methods hy which war should he conducted. Germany had been guilty of more terrible anarchy than the world had ever known. She had broken down all the barriers which the ancient civilisation had created in order to keep the horrors of war within range."
Neutral nations must see that something is done to onsure that the rules of warfare, if there must be warfare, are kopfc in futnre, and that .science shall not bo-misused for the destruction of Europo freedom from Prussian inilithis war,_ nor any peace., excepting a peace which shall ensure to tie nations o Europe freedom from Prussian militarism. "We are determined to continue to make sacrifices -until we have secured for the future the peace of tho wholfi continent of Europe. • Then our sacrifices should not have been in vain."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2911, 25 October 1916, Page 5
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200THE DUTY OF NEUTRALS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2911, 25 October 1916, Page 5
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