The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1916. NO PEACE—AT PRESENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 23 December 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1916. NO PEACE—AT PRESENT.

Christmas 1916 will be chiefly remarkable not as a Season of “Peace and Goodwill,” but as a time in our great Empire’s history when the cunning of Germanism attempted to cajole, Britain and her gallant Allies into a cessation of hostilities against the interests of universal and permanent Peace. How well German ‘ plans had been laid is again shown by the remarkable coincidence of the extraordinary, ill-timed and unwanted interference of the United States of America. If President Wilson knows nothing eles he should at .least know,, that the objects of ail the belligerents are not tbe same, and until he has learned the difference, between the Turco-Teutonic aims—hacked up as they have been by i murder, rapine and ferocious cruelty —and the aims of the Nations banded together to save tin* rest of the world from destruction and enslavement, he had better save his words for some more acceptable occasion, j In the face of all that has happened, ; of the utter failure of Mr Wilson to preserve the slightest shred of dignity in his relations with Germany, of his placid acceptance of prevarication and insult at the hands of myrmidons of the Kaiser, it is pure nonsense for him to graudilofluently toll us that “the' objects' winch the belligerents’ statesmen on both sides have iu mind are virtually the same, as they have stated in general terms that each side desires to secure the rights and privileges of weak peoples’ states ■ against aggression,” and further that, “the United States is vitally and directly interested in measures to secure future peace, and also in the means to be adopted to relieve smaller and weaker peoples of the perils ol wrong and violence.” H as he alleges, be “confidently hopes loi a response which will bring new light into the world’s affairs, and which will insure the world’s peace and justice,” he might have indicated that “confident hope” much better dv sending a cable message to Mi ; Lloyd George, congratulating him on the ; magnificent stand be on Britain’s behalf is taking by the side ol Franco, Russia. Italy, Serbia and Belgium. That some such mot cutout would come from the United was not unanticipated, because the German- underground agents hawj long been working in this direction, j Because it suits the lenton in Ids fear of punishment. he is to-dai

prepared to belaud .the United

States and hail President. Wilson as the winner of undying faint*—as a talker, we presume—but if Europe had been trampled under foot ' and Britain’s Navy had not stood between humanity and German ambitions, this same smug beast would have with equal readiness, rent Wilson ‘and smashed the United States. If Mr - Wilson does not yet know that the conquest of* America was one of the Kaiser’s dreams then indeed lie is very much behind the times and not at all a fitting person to be advising Grandmamma Europe.