UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

MR BALFOUR'S MESSAGE. TO AMERICAN PEOPLE. NEW PAGE IN HUMAN HISTORY. New York, April 22. Mr Balfour, in an interview, said that the people of America must realise that they are in the face of a real fight and be prepared to make the individual sacrifices which would be demanded. The. war would be a long tax on her resources and men, and would require all America can afford to give in financial assistance and commercial and industrial energy. "We have come," said Mr Balfour, "to help America turn the first page in a new chapter of the history of mankind. America does not yet realise all she will be called upon to do. "We- Britishers know what it means, and time will bring the war home to you as to us. It will be some time before the people of America realise what they are up against," Mr Balfour said he was unable to express an opinion on points of policy' until he bad conferred with the President and officials. "I have come in order to do what I can to mike co-operution easy and effective between those striving to achieve i lasting peace by the only possible means; ' a successful war. Mr Wilson lias proclaimed that the world must be saved by democracy. Tlje British democracy hails this as a happy augury that selfgoverning communities will not be treated as negligible because they ire Bmall. The ruthless domination of one unscrupulous Power must not he allowed to imperil the future of civilisation and the liberties of mankind.'*