AMERICA HAS SAVED THE ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 7

AMERICA HAS SAVED THE ALLIES

MR. BONAR LAW MAKES A REVELATION. Striking testimony to the value of America's support in the war, especially in finance, -was given by Mr. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who presided at a luncheon given at the House of Commons to Mr. MedilliWCormick, a prominent United States Congressman.

Mr. Bonar Law said we hud got into the habit sometimes of looking upon our German onemies as if they were something almost superhuman in wisdom nnd power. In eomo respects that was true— the power which they had shown in everything relating to autual military force had been niarvelloua. There wne never any good in denying what was good in our enemies, including thoir personal courage. In everything connected' with military art they had been past masters, but, fortunately for us, wher. ever it hnd been a question of dealing with human nature they had made mistakes of a kind whioh more than once had been the salvation of tho Allies and of the cause for which the Allies were fighting. No mistake had ever been corninitted by them so great as that which drove tho United States into tho alliance against a military despotism on the Continent. One mistake was, as Lord Robert Cecil had indioated, that we, as a nation, had always hated war, and, perhaps, if any charge could ever be brought against us with, proof in connection with this war, it would be that, because we hated it so muoh, we ourselves laid tho seeds of desolation which had spread .over Europe. The fact that the great American nation had been driven into war on our side waa the best proof that tho cause for which wo were fighting •was a righteous "and a just cause. (Cheers.) The United States ' possessed resources greater than those of any otjier nation on the face of the earth. We know the character of her people. We knew that in all the arts of peace they had shown resourcefulness, energy, and Tcadincss to adapt, themselves to uew methods, whioh he was sure would be shown also in tho arts of war, and the advantage of which we should reap more and more as the months go by. We had something that it wae satisfactory for- us to feel. I see it constantly stated in the German newspapers that .that is the last hope of the Allies. We do rely upon them, and with good reason, for I. as Chancellor of the Exchequer, am ready to say now what I should have, been very eorry to admit six months, ago, that without the aid- of the United States tile financial position of the Allies would have been in a very.disastrous situation to-day. We have reason to be grateful for the readiness and the help ; which, has been given by our Allies on the other side of the water." ...' .