PRESIDENT WILSON AND PEACE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1638, 16 November 1916, Page 4

PRESIDENT WILSON AND PEACE.

It is well known, says Mr James Davenport Wheipley, a well-inform-ed writer on United Slates politics, that President Wilson lias hoped for the time to come when he. acting' for the American people, can in some way advance the cause of peace; in fact, he has staled plain-, ly that this is his ambition, and be believes it might become his duly. It is a fascinating idea to play with, and no one can doubt but that Mr Wilson’s mind and his imagination have been given full play in considering its possibilities. If nothing happens in the direction of what has been suggested it will be because President Wilson has decided upon information from his advisers abroad or from the impossibility of securing sufficient neutral support in northern Europe, a support absolutely necessary to ensure the neutrality of any action taken, that no such plan can be successfully carried out. The idea will not be abandoned for lack of attractiveness or desire to entertain it. There is just one other reason why all this talk of mediation in Washington of which there is dependable report may come to naught, and that will be because of a possible lack of decision of character and courage of action in the man who must take the first step to bring it within the range of actualities, and his critics allirm that these are his grave faults of temperament, unfitting him (o be at (he head of the Government of a great nation in times like these.