AFTER-WAR WORK FOR NEUTRALS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 27 January 1917, Page 3

AFTER-WAR WORK FOR NEUTRALS.

j ‘ ‘GREAT ANARCHIST OF EUROPE. ’ ’ i j I lu responding to tlio toast ot his | j .health at a complimentary luncheon | given to him by the Foreign Press As- | soeiation at the Hotel Cecil, Viscount : Grey, the late Foreign Secretary, made , an important speech. ! "Just lately, ’’ he said, "the Crown j Prince had deplored to an American j the loss of life through this war. Yes; j it was because we know what the sufferings of war must be, and how terrible a thing war lot loose would be, that we tried to avoid it. It is because we have had this terrible experience of what war means that we are determined that the war shall not | end until we can be sure that the generations which come after us shall not jbe subjected to such a terrible trial again ' ’ To that end, Lord Grey added, the Allies shall stand or fall together. The separation of one from the other would be the destruction of the one separated. For us unity was essential, not merely to victory, but to our future life and success. * Proceeding, Viscount Grey said that | there was work for the neutrals to do j after the war They should use their efforts to see that treaties were kept. Germany had been guilty of all breaches of civilised warfare, and had done all that wag contrary to the elementary dictates of humanity. Germany had been the great anarchist, a greater and piore terrible anarchist than naybodj' ever dreamt of. She had thrown down all the barriers of civilisation that were built up to keep the horrors of war within bounds. Neutrals should see that something wag done in the laying down of the rules which would make sure that any nation which departed from them would be regarded as an enemy of the human race. It wag brought home to us from day to day that our younger generation was giving itself that the older generation and those who came after them might live anjj enjoy national life free from the stiffling oppression of domination by Prussian militarism. For years before this war we were living under the deep ghadow of that militarism.