The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1918. WAR AND PEACE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 406, 3 September 1918, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1918. WAR AND PEACE

"We nothing extenuate, nor let down auaht in malice."

Speaking in Virginia in celebration of America's great anniversary on the Fourth of July, President Wilson, referring to the war said ''There can be but one issue. The settlement must be fiual. There can be no compromise. No halfway decision would be tolerable. No halfway decision is conceivable." Then dealing with peace settlement he explained that the instrumentof peace would have to be an organisation that would mobolise the combined power of free nations in the defence of justice and right. That isa truth that cannot be too strongly emphasised, ami in its light the need for the definite 'defeat of Germany must l>e read Mr Wilson has never failed to draw a sharp distinction between the German oligarchy and the German people, between the handful of despots to whose power a League of Nations would spell destruction, and the masses on whom, in Germany as in every other land, such a I,eague would confer the blessings ot security and freedom. This great consummation might be expedited by bringing the fabric of the League of Nations into being without further delay. Once formed on a basis agreed between the Allied, and it maybe neutral Powers, the League would have opportunities from the moment of its birth of demonstrating as. for example, in the case of lieland or of Russia—its competence to apply its principles without respect of persons or of nationalities in the cause of equity and justice.