AFTER THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 18, 24 December 1915, Page 4

AFTER THE WAR.

The Christchurch Press very rightly'; says: While the supreme task of tain just now is to concentrate on winning the war, it is desirable that we should all keep in mind the fact that a post-war policy must be thought out, and adhered to. 011 course, there will be people anxious to persuade us that the slate must be held to be willed clean when peace comes to the world again—that ue must resume our old relations with the enemy. But the war will have brought wisdom to Britain. Every Englishman now knows the thousand subtle methods by which Germany prepared for this war—how she manufactured or, influenced opinion, how she employed deceit as her most useful weapon, how she grew strong through hei; trade. ■ These methods make up a policy which can be used only once. It will not bo a placidly unsuspicious Britain that "ill confront whatever is left oi Geimanj, but a profound determination that Germany hill never grow great or powerful again.