THE NEW EUROPE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 12, 15 January 1916, Page 2

THE NEW EUROPE.

The Earl of Rosebery, Chancellor of the University of London, presiding at the first of a series of Rhodes Lectures to be delivered by Professor J. M. Morgan, Professor of Constitutional Laws in the University, pn "The War and the Political Unity of the Empire," said: —"I am sure I am only expressing your views when I offer to Professor Morgan our warmest thanks for the fascinating address to which we have just listened. I : completely agree with his thesig as I understand it that the old Europe as 1 we knew, it has disappeared never to return in its present shape, and that at the conclusion of the war, whatever may be the form that it will assume, it Avill be nothing like the form with which we have been familiar. There is one obvious reason for this, which is that in future it will be quite impossible to take note of treaty arrangements bewteen great Powers without obtainnig some material guarantee for their observance. (Cheers). Of course it is 'a truism to say that the signature of Germany, or, I should rather say, Prussia, to any instrument of any kind will have lost all value for any measurable distance of time which we can contemplate. When the arduous efforts of the Peace Congress are complete, and when the task which will lie before the plenipotentiaries is over, there will appear beyond the mountain summits the almost gigantic task of reorganising the British Empire, (cheers). We have not hitherto been very elastic in our constitutional dealings, but we shall have to clean a good deal off our slate before we begin to write reorrani?.3tion upon it. God grant that wisdom and power may be given to our statesmen on that day, whenever it may come, and that patriotism will be shown as much in those bloodless councils as it has been on the fields of the Dardanelles and of Flanders. ( Cheers).