THEIR PEACE VOWS FORGOTTEN
BLOOD AND IRON AGAIN THE CRY IN GERMANY. ffieo. May 21, 0.30 a.m.) London, May 23. At the Mansion Houso luncheon given to celebrate Hie anniversary of Italy's entry into tho war. Lord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) said that a complete change. lia<l coirio over the German peoples since their recont superficial victories. Nothing was now tieard of the Reichstag's renunciatory resolution, Gorman professors were again preaching the gospel of blood and iron, and the promised democratic reforms in Prussia were forgotten. II; was the duty of the Entente Powers to increase their efforts, and discard their political preoccupations. Lord Cecil, alluding to the Austrian Empire, said that the peoples who were subjected to Austrian rule must enjoy that freedom and independence which was their right. "We must not look to Courts or Cabinets for tho future settlement, but to the nations and the peoples."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 210, 24 May 1918, Page 5
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153THEIR PEACE VOWS FORGOTTEN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 210, 24 May 1918, Page 5
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