UNIVERSAL PEACE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10203, 3 April 1911, Page 5

UNIVERSAL PEACE

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

HERR HOLLWEG'S SPEECH.

NEWSPAPER OPINIONS

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, April i. The Times says that Herr von Bethmann Hollweg's speech on the question of the limitation o£ armaments is not unfriendly to England. It is, according to the Times, remarkable equally for its commonsense and its clear-cut reasoning, and must dissipate the illusions concerning the practicability of the lim* itation of armaments. Other newspapers declare,chat, as overtures for more peaceful and happy relations have met with a rebuff, there is no choice but to arm or go under. ±ARIS, April 1. The "Journal des Debats" declares that Herr Hollweg politely bows President Taft and Sir Edward Grey out of court. The "Debats" quotes Herr Hollweg's remark that the weak must always be a prey to the strong. It adds: "No sentimentality and no combination of dreamers can ever surmount teat eternal verity." BERLIN, April 1. The newspaper "Vorwaerts" says that Herr Hollweg has clinched his mailed fist and declared war on disarmament, in brazen defiance of the German people, '.,_ , The "Ne/dste Nachricnten'' says: "As long as Germany keeps powerful, we will always be able, when our good cousins are caught short on .tHe world's exchange, tov Snatch for ourselves the rewards in prospect." " (Received April 1, 9 a.m.) PARIS, April 1. The Echo de Paris says that Herr Hollweg's remarkable speech surely dispelled like mist the dreams of certain Englishmen arid Frenchmen. ' The newspaper Figaro says that Germany regards the idea of universa peace as a dream. She does not wish to renounce war, but intends to play the world-role of a powerful nation.