LORD ROSEBERY ON THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1525, 21 March 1916, Page 4

LORD ROSEBERY ON THE WAR.

Speaking at Edinburgh on January 20th, Lord Rosebery struck a note of confident optimism. He said “We civilians cannot criticise warlike movements. We can only appreciate the heroism that every man is showing at the front. Our hearts are near our soldiers day and night. We can never forget what they have done for us, and, as tor them, they write from their entrenchments with an easy confidence which should inspire every man, if he could have it communicated to him, with the same certainty of victory. It was only this morning that I received a letter from one whom many of you may know very well—Major Macrae Taylor, a well-known physician in Edinburgh, who has given up a great practice to work as a major in the army in the territorial force. In his letter, full of the brilliancy of hope and expectation. He says:—“We are winning hands down —make no mistake about that.’ And that Is the spirit that animates our army. It proves to me, if any of us feel pessimistic, feel gloomy, feel disheartened, the one remedy is to go and see our men at the front. They will win the day. There is no more doubt about that than there is that I am standing here. We shall have, I daresay, many dark days yet to pass through, and, whatever happens, however long the war may be, the year 1914 will mark the blackest in the whole history of mankind, perhaps. Yet we are certain by the mere endurance which has always marked our national enterprises we are certain to win.”