WHAT KIND OF PEACE?

Taihape Daily Times, 20 July 1918, Page 6

WHAT KIND OF PEACE?

H. G Wells, in an article in the New Republican of February 9 has a word on the subject of peace:— "Our Tories," he says, "blundered into this great war, not seeing whither it would take them. In particular it |is manifest now by a hundred signs 1 that they dread the fall of monarchy in Germany and Austria. The recienit letter of Lord Lansd'owne, urging a peace with German imperialism, was but a feeler from the pacifist side of this most un-English and unhappily most influential section of our public life. Lord Lonsdowne s letter was the letter of a peer who fears revolution more than national dishonour.'' Wells does not think, however, that this pacifist wing of the Tories is much to be feared. "It is the truculent wing," he says, "of this same anti-democratic movement that is far more active. While our sons suffer and die for their comforts and conceit, these people scheme to prevent any communication between the republican and socialist classes in Germany and the Allied population. At any cost this 'elass of pampered and privileged traitors intend to have peace while the Kaiser is still on his throne. If not, they face a new world —in which their part will bo small indeed. And with the utmost ingenuity they maintain a dangerous vagueness about the Allied peace terms, with the sole object of preventing a revolutionary movement in Germany.