A PLACE FOR THE KAISER.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1918, Page 6

A PLACE FOR THE KAISER.

SHOCKED PROTEST BY LOUD BUCKMASTER, London, “We canont allow Jack the Ripper to roam up and down Broadway or Cheapside; the proper place for Wilhelm of Berlin is St. Helena,’ This declaration, made by Majotf Putnam, the famous publisher and publicist, who has come to this country to expound American war abas, caused a sharp clash of opinion at the National Liberal Club. “The American League to Enforce Peace believe so thoroughly in peace," said Major Putnam, “that they think it is worth fighting for, and that in present conditions peace must he fought for in order to be made secure for the future. This world cannot endure half-slave and half-free, A militaxy despotism which believes that other peoples are only made to be enslaved is a constant peril to all the liberties of the free man of the world.” Major Putnam’s statement "fras greeted with general cheers, but did not win the approval of Lord Buckmaster. who uttered a lugubrious protest.

“It is a mistake,” said Lord Buckmaster, “to imagine that this war must be continued until we dethrone the Hohenzollerns, We cannot, by any means of which I can think, establish a condition of things which before the war ends will end the authority of the reigning house of Germany. I do not for a moment think that defeat will accomplish it, even - if defeat were triumphant and overwhelming. I do not think that it ever can be accomplished except by a change in the condition of mind of the German people, and that I do not believe can be effected by force of arms.

“The real victors in this war will he determined ten or twenty years afterwards, and they will be the nation who will best be able to face the glowing disccontent of a disillusioned people, to ward off impending famine, and to save their people from the appalling consequence of the universal bankruptcy to which Europe is speeding. It is for those reasons that I earnestly deprecate the idea that this war is to be waged until some moment at which you will awaken to find the Hohenzollern throne without an occupant.”