Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-04
British Sentiment Growing
Stronger With Rank and
File in London.
PEACE ADVOCATES HAVE
DWINDLED IN NUMBERS
That Men. Munitions and Money
Will Win Is the Conviction OF
Nearly Every Englishman.
Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Frcss
LONDON, November o3-Speculauon
about the possibility OF peace-talh
that seems to come from Swltzeriaho'
Rome. Madrid or America, always
vague and usually negative-strlkes no
audibly responsive chord in Lonaoh.
The more the fortunes of war appear
RI +urn against the allies the less the
British seem inclined to listen with pa
,iance to any suggestion that peace
cap come through other means than
military achievement.
When Charles Trevelyan. in the
,ouse Of commons last week, ventured
to express the view that there is moth
ing inherently disgraceful or humll-
iatinr in obtaining by negotiation
rather than by fighting the aims Tor
which we are fighting ana urged the
government to inform the house II any
proposals of peace came either from
peutrals or belligerents. he was put
reneatins opinions which led his dis
tinyuished and scholarly father 70
Withdraw from the cabinet with Loru
Morley and John Burns, when war Mas
declared Moreover, his statement Ina
termination OF the war pS neg mes - 80
would give a greater guaranty OF per,
rpanent peace, because less hati
would be engendered. served to empha-
size the spirit of the house ana the
people at large en-,
Ronar Law said it was useless folly
To pretend 10 believe that Germahs
would give up Belgium, Poland ana
Alsace-he might have added serpia-
until she was beaten
r p O,Connor said that such speech
would be forbidden in the Frehch
chamber, the Russian duma or the
German reichstag, and the discussion
closed with the announcement VI
third member that Mr.. IreFelyah coil-
stituents in Yorkshire haa dtfeaus
lected another liberal for his seat as
they could not tolerate his opinions.
Labor Element in Sympathy.
All observers agree that the peace aa-
yocates in Great Britain have d"ih-
died in numbers The labor element, that
a, one time was inclined to be luke
warm in the support of the war, is no"
credited with being among ITS most
ou+snoLen adherents, labor leaders
having thrown themselves eagerly lilto
backing Lord Derby in his recruiting
campaign. - nat the
fortunes of war do not at present 1aFot
-ba allies The Dardanelles campaign
narticularIv' the landing at suFla pas'
is a tremendous disappolhliile ~ ~
advance at LcOs has peeh ioiio"
the general belief that. as at ->euse
,,h,neIle a brilliant opportunity TO
make the most of a promising openihS
was lost; the virtual loss OF the sel oia a.
territory and the precarious posttloh OF
the army that landed at saiohihl a.
not underestimate the attituue u
greece and Rumania, the dsd
,nents in the ca binet, and other uls'u y
ing factors are all weighed III the oi
ance and contribute to a genera app
cation that things are not going Well
&c NJ Churchill expressed 1t IN ms
apologize.
No Welcome for Peace Advocate.
Still. the British are not dismaSeo'
and the universal belief is that any
chanceuery which sounded Downing
street on the possibility of peace would
find no welcome. That men. munitions
and money" will win the war is the
common conviction that no adversely
has shaken.
With the British fleet afoat and the
British army gaining strength week
by week, with British territory unin-
vaded-indeed. vastly increased in area
notably in Africa, il is argued on all
sides that London win not consider
peace suggestions from any source
while Germany remains in Belgium.
Great wars sometimes end suddenly,
but there has never been SO great a
war as this and British interests have
never been in such jeopardy. In the
opinion of every Englishman, there is
no more hope for peace through dip
iomatic channels now than there was
the day the war began. in fact, there
seems to be less, at least, SO far as any
indications in this capital are discern
ible.