A GERMAN PEACE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1591, 25 July 1916, Page 2

A GERMAN PEACE.

THE chief article in the new issue of The Round Table defines the issue of the war as being “whether Europe is to develop along the lines of the free commonwealth or under the lowering domination of an overweening militarist State.’-’ Germany, it is shown, is seeking to eliminate national rivalry by establishing a permanent predominance over her neighbours. When Prussia says that she is lighting for peace she is speaking the truth. She is lighting for the only kind of peace which she understands, the peace which follows universal submission to the commands of authority, the universal destruction of liberty among men. The rulers of Germany and their Magyar associates would have hud no chance of success unless they had hud absolute control over the armies and resources of more than 30,000,000 non-German and non-Magyar peop-

les. Tho foundation of the Prussian attempt at domination, and the greatest tragedy of the wav, is to he found in those 30,000,000 people with their manhood ‘organised into eonseripls, and inarched to death to rivet the Prussian yoke on others, and yet more iirmly on themselves. The sine quo non, therefore, of the allied terms of peace Is not only the defeat of the Mittel Europa plan, which would bring not 30,000,000 non-German people, hut double that number, under German military and diplomatic control, but the freeing also of these peoples who were in fact, if not in name, in bondage to Berlin before the ward'