The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-10
STOCKHOLM SEES DIFFICULTIES
 IF PEACE

STOCKHOLM, June 30. - (Corres pondence of the Associated Press.) - Stockholm, where wayfarers of all , nations meet and mingle on neutral ground. but few hours journey from belligerent lands, it is possible to learn much that may be credited as to the views of governments and peoples concerning the possibilities and problems of peace. This is par ticularly true with regard to the Ger mans and Russians, for at this time the nationals of those countries make up by far the larger part of the for. eign population of Scandinavia. Of. ficials and travellers from France and England are also constantly passing through Stockholm or their way to Petrograd, leaving behind their en' tlrely informal and unofficial ideas as to what the future holds.
 From contact not alone with off cials and men of influence fresh from the warning countries, but with the diplomats accredited to the Swedish capital as well, the correspondent of the Associated Press can state that each government as it contemplates the terms of peace sees behind any prospective international negotiations the far grayer problem of squaring with it's own people the menacing ac' count in which a balance must be struck between benefits won and the staggering losses of blood and wealth. What will the common people" of the belligerent countries do and say if the net result of the years of sac rifice and fighting is but a re-estab- lishment of the ante-bellum status quo? Can any one of the nations at war satisfy its people with such an accounting?
 Whenever the prospects of an early peace seem bright, these problems cloud the skies of hope. The off cial" views as to the conditions of peace allowed to drift out of Germany, | Austria and the entente countries have as yet offered no basis of agree ment which takes into consideration the settlements to be made "at home" by both sides. At least that is the view taken here in Stockholm.
 It is felt here that France occupies perhaps the least difficult situation of any of the nations now at war. For France was invaded, Paris was threat ened and the army was called into the field in defense of home and fireside. France, it is said here, can settle on any honorable terms and there will be little discontent among the people.
 But what of Germany? Can she, 1t is asked, give up all the occupied ter ritory in Europe, return Lo her own l borders with industries ahattecrd,, foreign trade to be won all over again and yet make the people "at home 1 feel that their losses and susfnrings were not in vain?
 Can Great Britain afford to give back to Germany all of her colonies after the sacrifices at Gallipoli, in East Africa, Mesopotamia and in the fields and trenches of Flanders and Western France? Will Germany in these circumstances have been suffi- ciently crushed" and will Great Bri- tain's prestige in the world have been sufficiently increased to offset the enormous losses of British lives and make easy the burdens of the years to come?
 Many theories are discussed here as to how peace might be accom- plished if it were but matter of give and take at the conference table, but this greatest of all world wars has | wrought such havoc of iuss to all en- gagged in it that the mere settlement on paper is not to be compared with the problem of setting things right "at home"
 Tt is when we get to that phase of 1 the situation that I feel matters are all but hopeless" said a man of out standing prominence in the diplomatic circle of Stockholm. "The war has gone on and on, accommodating head way and drawing nation after nation into its grasp, until confess I can not see how the end will come. Who will take the initiative for peace? am convinced it cannot come from the