Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-25
GREY SAYS ALLIES
WON'T TALK PEACE
Foreign Minister Thinks It Is
ALI Right for Neutrals to
Look to Future.
MUST HAVE GUARANTEES

London, Oct 24.-Another impor-
tant contribution to the discussions
on peace was made by Viscount Grey,
secretary for foreign affairs, at a
luncheon given today by the Foreign
Press association, at which the dip
lomatic Representatives of all the al
lied countries were present.
The foreign secretary made it plain
that the allies were not prepared to
discuss peace terms, but welcomed
any efforts by neutral countries for
combination to prevent future wars.
Some of the most important passages
of the secretary's speech follow:
81 would like to talk, not, indeed,
about actual conditions of peace,
which can only be stated and formu-
lated by the allies together and not
by any one of them separately, but
about the general objects which the
allies must secure in this war. And
to do that l would ask you to recall
that we must never forget how the
war came about. If we are to APP
proach peace in a proper spirit it can
only be by recollecting and recalling,
and never for moment forgetting,
what was the real cause of the war.
,. Must Have Guarantees.
Some people say oh, we need not
go back over that old ground now;
everybody knows it.
you cannot go back to it too often.
1t affects the conditions of peace.
Germany talks of peace; its statesmen
talk of peace today They say Ger
many must have guarantees against
being attacked again If this war had
been forced upon Germany that would
be logical statement. 1t is precisely
because it was not forced upon Ger
many, but was forced by Germany
upon Europe, that it is the allies who
must have guarantees for future
peace.
Passing to the position of the neu-
trail countries, Viscount Grey said, in
answer to a question as to what they
could do:
Work for Neutrals.t
81 believe the best work neutrals
can do for the moment is to try to
prevent a war like this from happen
ing again. If the nations had been
united in such an agreement, and
resolution to insist in 1914 that the
dispute must be referred to a con-
ference or The Hague, that the Bel
gian treaty must be observed, there
would have been no war.
Nations fighting for their existence
with daily increasing prospects of
seeing victory brought nearer, still
knowing that if they stop short of
victory, they stop short of everything
for which they are struggling, cannot
be expected to spend much time think
ing about what might happen after
victory is secured. But the neutrals
can do it. l observe that not only
President Wilson, but Mr.. Hughes,
is supporting league started, not
with the object of interfering with
the belligerents in this war, but which
will do its part in making peace Sc
cure in the future.
at is a work of neutral countries
to which we should all look with
favor and hope. Only we must bear
in mind, if the nations after the war
are able to do something effective by
binding themselves with the common
object of preserving peace, they must
be prepared to undertake not more
than they are able to uphold by
force, and to see, when the time of
crisis comes, that it is upheld by
force.
Will You Play Up?
"The question we must ask, then,
is: Will you play UP when the time
comes?' It is not merely the sign
manual of presidents and sovereigns
that is really to make that worth
while; it must also have behind it
parliaments and national sentiments.
"Supposing the conditions of 1914
occur again and there is such league
in existence. Everything will depend
upon whether national sentiment be-
hind it is so permeated by the lessons
of this war as to compel each nation,
as matter of vital interest, to keep
peace other than by force"