NORMAN ANGELL ON PEACE.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 January 1918, Page 4

NORMAN ANGELL ON PEACE.

The necessity for defeating German militarism was emphatically affirmed by Mr Norman Angell, author of various pacificist works, in an interview in New York. "I am not in favour of a 'patched up peace.' I believe it is absolutely necessary to tiefeat and thoroughly discredit German militarism, and that until that institution is destroyed the world will never be safe. lam also convinced that victory itself will be rendered futile unless we know how to use victory when peace comes. We are in real dafiger of wasting the great gift which the soldiers will purchase with their lives, of rendering it futile by the bad politics of us civilians who are left behind. More, I am convinced that our bad politics have already added to the difficulties of the soldiers' task. If the German people are to be brought to see that they are not fighting "a war of defence; if the support which they gave their Government is to be undermined; if Germany is to be democratised; if the way is to be prepared for territorial concessions neces"sary for the better Europe, it must be made plain that the allied policy offers to a democratised and law-abiding Germany a security greater than that which she can enjoy under a militarist and autocratic regiment. All this does not mean that we have noT got to defeat Germany. It means that that defeat cannot be complete until we have added wise political management to the military effort."