PEACE TALK.
A STIRRING REPLY. ■ TO LAKSDOWNE'S PEACE SOPHISTRIES. ALL THE WORLD MARCHING AOAINST GERMANY. Received August 5, 7.50 p.m. London, August 4. Mr. Churchill, replying to LordLandsdownc, says:—"To enter a struggle like this, to proclaim the vital and sacred... issues at stake, to throw the flower of the nation's manhood into the in four devastating years, and then'todiscover that the foe is so stiff that reaconable accommodation should be -ar-, ranged,'is not the way tO''an peace. We have but to presevere toS conquer. All the world is maTching' against Germany and her Confederates. Peace now, when German triumph i*< ■tottering, would be to shut off mankinds from its native basic rights. j "Are we," he-asks, "to doom our.chil-? tlren to accept for all time the Germansat their own extravagant valuation, and. allow them to stamp their fafe varue; upon the world after going through We have done? Why seek the* moment that Germany is about .to "'fall? Ought wo to seek to negotiate a-treaty sv/hich would be a brandon the'+heads ofi .our race for generations? A nctitiousj inferiority, a sham defeat—thatis whatj Lord Landsdowne is obstinately be-" seeching us to do. "The Germans must be decisively' beaten in the field by'the Allied- armies.? That is an indispensable preliminary to the suspension of liostilites. The German people, before they are received? into a League of Nations, must make-'a definite break with the military system which has led them into fearful and monstrous 'Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1918, Page 5
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243PEACE TALK. Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1918, Page 5
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