WHAT SORT OF PEACE?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1574, 8 July 1916, Page 4

WHAT SORT OF PEACE?

In a recent interview with a represcifi alive of the Chicago Daily News, Sir Edward Grey summarises admirably the ideas of the allies on the question of peace. He said the injustice done hy this war has got to be set right. The allies can tolerate no peaee that leaves the wrongs of this war nnredressed. When persons come to me with a, pacific counsel I think they should tell me what sort of peace (hey have in mind. They should lei me knew on which side they stand. If they think, for example, lhal Belgium was innocent of offence; Unit she has been unspeakably wronged; that she should be set np again by those who tore her down, then it seems to me, (hey should say so. Peace counsels lhal are purely abstract and make no attempt to discriminate between the rights and the wrongs of this war are ineffective, if not irrelevant. Nobody wants peace more lhan we want it. Bnt we want a peace that does justice and a peaee that. re-establishes respect for the public law of the world. Presumably Germany would like neutrals to think we are applying pressure to keep France, Russia and Italy in the war. We arc not. France, Russia and Italy need no urging to keep them in the war. They know (hey are in it to preserve everything that is precious to nationality, it is this knowledge which makes them determined and unconquerable. Unless mankind learns from this war to avoid'war the struggle will have been in vain. Furthermore, it seems to me that over humanity will loom the menace of destruction. The Prussian authorities have apparently but one idea ol’ peace—an iron peace imposed on (fiber nations hy German supremacy. They do not understand that free men and free nations will rather die than submit to that ambition, and that there can be no end to war till it is defeated and renounced.”