MR. ROOSEVELT'S.PEACE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 103, 25 January 1919, Page 7

MR. ROOSEVELT'S.PEACE

. Sir,T-Tlie other-day I noticed a cor« respondent writing and giving a quo-\ j tation from a very admirable speech • made by the late Mr. Roosevelt. At a ™ time like the present, when-.oyery man ; and woman must be on their guard ' against the encouragement of anything '' that would tend to induce a rising or V Bolshevism in New Zealand) the words of warning by Mr. Roosevelt might .;! have somp influence at such a. juncture, Bolshevism was the creation of German ; propaganda in Russia. j Mr. Roosevelt-not- only protested . against encouragement, of pacifists and. J internationalists, who were really the i pro-Germans in tlie United States, but j on August 25, speaking at Spring- , field, Illinois, on "Peace by Negotiation,"ho said: ,! "We must insist' upon a peace of [ complete and overwhelming victory." ■ -Then dealing; . with': tho- proposed! j League of Nations, he gives ventf.to ' this magnificent ■'utterance: — i "When peace conies let ns accept j any reasonable proposal, whether call- J ing for a Lengue of Nations or for any other machinery which:' we can in < good faith act upon, and which does really offer some chance of lessening j the number of future wars and. of ci- y minishing their area, hut let us never / ■« forget that any promise that such a '■ league or other piece ofmachinery > will definitely do away with war is ! cither slujer -nonsense or rank liypoc-. ' risy. Let'us'rest ; our strength on our Army, which shall'consist, not of a "j special caste,' but of the people them- j selves—oll an army produced by uni- i versal obligatory training of all our j young men from 19 to 21.'' i And if we are going to prevent tho j rising wave of sheer nonsense or iank ' j if we are going to prevent ; 'the rising of Bolshevism, or even the ! patronage of I.W.W.'s and Red Feds, j in this Dominion, then (the League of ;; Nations —whatever, its policy—must be .<•'! supported by compulsory universal ' training.—l am, etc., ••• •- .. ' j NO,HUMBUG