The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-24
ALLIES ARE NOT
YET PREPARED
To TALK PEACE:
GREY GIVES
VIEWS OF COUNTRY
Gave No indication Of What
Their Terms Might Be-
Welcomes Neutral Action.

| LONDON, Oct. % (S:13 p. m.)-An-
other Important contribution 10 lnG
discussions on peace WAS mace by
klSCOunt Grey, secretary Tor foreign
| affairs, at Il lunch given today Dy lhe
| UreISh prcSa association aL MulCIi the
diplomatic representatives Of all the
allied countries were present.
Inc IUreISu ScCrrLary uaue IL plain
! that the allies We're not prepared 10
discuss peace terms, and gave no ln-
dicatlon OF what their terms might be,
! but welcomed any efforts by neutral
countries Tor Il combination 10 prevent
| future wars. Some Ut the most III
purtant passages Uf the secretary's
speech follow:
Il would like to talk, not, indeed,
about actual conditions or peace,
which could only De stated and tornl-
| ulattu by the allies together, AND not
| by any one VI them separately, but
auOut the seAeraI objects which the
allies must secure in InIs war. And TO
| DO that | would ask you 10 recall that
! We must never forget how the war
| caIne about. If We are 10 approach
peace in Il proper spirit IL can only De
by recOltGCLnS and recalling ana never
for 4 moment forgetting wnaL was the
real cause OF the war.
Some people say:
"Oh. wC Need not go back over that
old ground now: everybody knows 1t.
y on cannot go back u 1t too often;
ii affects The conditions Of peace. Ger
| many talks Of peace. her statesmen
talk Of EtGcc Today. rhry say:
"Gcrnlauy must have guarantees
against being attacked again"
If this war had been forced upon
Germany that would be Il logical state
Ia. |.
not forced upon Germany. but Was
forced by Germany upon Europe that it
! is tn" allies who must have guarantees
IOr iuLure peace.
No Thought of Attack.
In July. 1911. no one thought OF
! !aLlackiug Germany. II is said that
: I;uasll WAS the llrSt to mobilize. That,
! | understand, is what is represented
! in Germany as Justification for tho
statement that the war was not All ag-
greSSive war OH GerMany'S part, but
was forced upon her.
Russia never made the mobilization
Of which Germany naS complained uh-
til after Germany refused confer
rnce, and never made ii until after the
report appeared i'll Germany that Ger
many hut ordered mobilization and
! that report had been IelcGraphed to
PetrOgrad.
/ The whole plan Of campaig.l Of the
German staff WAS 10 altack through
! belgium. and now it is represented
I thai they had To attack through Bel
gium because other people hal Tanned
! to attack through Belgium. | would
( like nothing better Than 10 see those
: statements that Russia'S mobilization
vas an aggressive. and that ether pow
erS. any other power. had trattickel in
the neutrality Of Belgium Or planned
an attack through }elgium-l would
like 10 see those statements lnvuSu-
gated before any independent, impair
tial tribunal.
German organization is very sue
cessful in some things, but in nothing
more successful than III preventing the
truth from reaching their people, and
in presenting TO them Il point OF view
which is not that Of truth.
Refused Peaceful Methods.
when England proposed i confer
rnce Russia. France and Italy accept
ed The conference. And one power re-
fused it. When four powers offered q
conference and one power refused 1t,
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