“TO SERUM!"

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1918, Page 4

“TO SERUM!"

LORD NORTH CL IF FE’S SPEECH

Paris, August 20

The New York Herald, Paris edition, in a leading article entitled “ On to Berlin,” writes : “Lord Northcliffe has an incomparable gift of brushing aside nonessentials and laying bare the very heart of a matter. This is why the Bodies hate him. He has exposed their schemes so ruthlessly and. given such driving force to the Allies. “He has rarely, if over, spoken to better purpose than in his address on Friday to the representatives of the Overseas Press. After all the windy camouflage that has been used to disguise a peace by surrender—for tliat is the real meaning of ‘peace by negotiation ’ and peace through a League of Nations-it was uplifting to hear the plain truth. And the truth is exactly as Lord Northcliffe stated The only peace worth having, the ouly peace that can be durable and effective, is a peace imposed on Berlin and in Berlin by the Allies.

“Any other solution of the conflict would be merely a compromise; it would not restore peace, but only interrupt the war. As soon as the enemy, Prussia, had recovered her breath, healed her wounds, remodelled her armies and artillery, and replenished her granaries and storehouses she would find, or lather make, a pretext for renewing the struggle to place Deutschland über Alles. The present war, terrible though it is, would prove to be merely a dress rehearsal for Armageddon, the real thing. SEIIVICK TO CIVrUSATIOX. “ Those who, like Lord Northcliffe, seeing this, preach the doctrine of war until Germany shall have been beaten to the dust are benefactors of humanity. The Lansdownes and their friends of the Internationale—Jiurkerdom and Socialism in double harness—who plead ‘Come, let u* reason together’ with the enemy, are wittingly or unwittingly on the side of that enemy.

“Certainly the task of completely defeating Germany is a big one, hut it is easiness itself in comparison with the task of defeating her in another war. And if she is imprudently allowed to escape this time, another war is inevitable, and on a more gigantic scale.

“ There has been a vast amount of nonsense written in denunciation of the French cry in 1870 ‘A Berlin.’ As a matter of fact the soundest com - monsense, the clearest perception of realities, was in that cry. Only the means to make the aim a reality were lacking. “This time they are not lacking. The Allies have them in their hands. All that is necessary is the will to use them fully to reach Berlin, no matter how long it may take. Lord Northcliffe, therefore, has rendered civilisation another service at this juncture by raising the cry ‘ A Berlin.’ ”