THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1605, 2 September 1916, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

The real conscientious objector ought to be an outlaw. But so far fi’om being an outlaw he is to have special privileges. —Mr Justice Darling.

If we are determined to win, let us, for heaven’s sake, scrap every other consideration, organise the whole of our resources, and set about it with our entire and united might. —A. M., Thompson.

Able Mr Churchill is and activeminded, but as prime author of the Dardanelles gamble he is hopelessly discredited. The notion of such a man with such a record regenerating the Opposition is absurd. — The Daily Chronicle.

To preserve national unity against inspired efforts to break it up, and to sustain such risks as we encounter, with courage and equanimity, are the indispensable services which people at home can render the common cause. —A. F. Pollard.

children who die, are the problem of the slums. When we have surroundings fit for the latter,to live in let us keep them alive. In the meantime we breed too many for the workhouse, the gaol, a’nd the asylum.—Ma rgaret Macgregor, M.A.

We know that, the alliance composed of the German Empire with its dependent peoples, the AustroHungarian Empire, the Turks, and the Bulgarians is already beaten. But between the present phase and the last out; there is still a long distance to travel, and in that interval it is possible that American opinion will count. —Hilaire Belloc. If Germany had not decided to fight with lethal weapons, at an enormous sacrifice of life and treasure, she might in a few years have conquered Europe by her commercial, financial, and industrial powers, and further extended her baneful influence throughout the world by means of her merchant ships, her diplomatists, and her travellers. That conquest would have constituted the greatest triumph of Manmon in the world's history. —Archibald Hurd.