AFTER THE WAR.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1917, Page 2

AFTER THE WAR.

LORD LANSDOWNH’S VKWS. rAUSTRALIAN & N. 55. CABLE ASSOCIATION LONDON, November 26. Lord Lansdownc, in a letter to the newspapers urges greater coordination of the Allied war aims. It would be a great achievement to end the war honourably ; but a greater to prevent the curse falling on the children. If the Powers agree to arbitration in after war disputes it will be a long step towards the security of a commercial war, and be less ghostly in it s immediate effects than the war of armed forces; but it will be deplorable if the Powers embarked on commercial hostilities which would certainly retard the economic recovery of all the nations involved. Subject to our fiscal interests the stream of the world’s trade ought to he allowed to flow strong and uninterrupted in the neutral channels. We are not going to lose the war; but its prologation spells ruin to the civilised world. The German peaee party will be stimulated if: (1) —They knew what the Allies did not desire the annihilation of Germany as a great power. (2) —That the Allies did not seek to impose on tlic German people a form of Government other than of their own choice. (3) —Except as a- legitimate war measure, the Allies do not desire to deny Germany a place among the great- commercial communities. (4) —The Allies after the war artprepared, with the other Powers, to examine international problems, including the freedom of the seas. (5) —That they are prepared to enter into a pact of international arbitration.