Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-04
BRITONS NOT READY
TO DISCUSS PEACE
More Fortunes of War Turn Against
Them Less They SeeS< clined
to Listen to & ~ IS.
ALL WAN sc 1HT 1T OUT

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Corr .oos u the Associated Press
Lo4 ysF Nov. 2S.-Speculation
about VAe possibility of peace that
seems to come from Switzerland,
Rome, Madrid or America, always
vagnue and usually negative, strikes
no audibly responsive chord in Lon
don.
The more the fortunes of war ap-
pear to turn against the allies, the
less the British seem inclined to listen
with patience to any suggestion that
peace can come through other means
than military achievement.
When Charles Trevelyan in the House
of Commons last week Ventured to ex-
press the view that there is nothing In
herently disgraceful or humiltating in OBJ.
tanning by negotiation rather than by
fighting the aims for which we are
fighting" and urged the government 70
inform the house IL any proposals Of
peace came either from neutrals or bel
ligerents he was but repeating opinions
which led his distinguished and scholarly
father to withdraw from the cabinet with
Lord Morely and John Burns when war
was declared.
BOnar Law Calls 1t Folly.
Moreover. his statement that termina-
ton of the war by negotiation would give
"a el,a.Or guarantee of permanent peace,
because less hatred would be engendered,
served to emphasize the spirit of the
house and the people at large Bonar
Law said 1t was useless folly to pretend
to believe that Germany would give up
Belgium, Poland and Alsece-he might
have added Serbia, until 1t was beaten.
T. p. OConnor said that such speech
would be forbidden in the French Cham
ber, the Russian Duma or the German
Reichstag, and the discussion closed with
the announcement of third member
that Mr.. Trevleyan's constituents in York
shire had already selected another liberal
fog his seat as they could not tolerate
his opinions.
All observers agree that the peace ad-
vocates in Great Britain have dwindled
in numbers. The labor element that at
one time was inclined to be lukewarm
in the support of the war, is now credited
with being among its most outspoken ad-
herents, labor leaders having thrown
themselves eagerly into backing Lord
Derby in his recruiting campaign
Outlook for Allies seems Dark.
| 1t is admitted on every hand that the
fortunes of war do not at present favor
the allies. The Dardanelles campaign.
particularly tho landing at Suvla bay. is
tremendous disappointment. the ad-
vance at Loose has been followed by the
general belief that as at Nueve Chapelle,
brilliant opportunity to make the most
of promising opening was lost; the vir-
tual loss of the Serbian territory and the
precarious position of the army that
| landed at Salonih are not underestima-
! ted; the attitude of Greece and Rou-
mania, the disagreements in the cabinet,
and other disturbing factors, are all
weighed In the balance and contributed
to general appreciation that things are
not going we'll. as Mr.. Churchill ex-
pressed in his APOLOGIZE. Still the British
are not dismayed and the universal be-
lief is that any chancellory which
sounded" Downing street on the possi-
bility of peace would find no welcome.
That "men, munitions and money will
win the war Is the common conviction
| that no adversely has shaken.