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, LLOYD GEORGE ON PEACE
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The entente powers must f'rht on until they have reached the end [ set out to attain when they accepted Germany's chel- lenge to civilization, declared David Lloyd George, the British premier, in speech at Glasgow on June % To permit the war to come to an end single hour sooner would be "the gravest disaster that ever befel man kind" he added.
 These utteranCes possess notable slgnlh- canoe at this moment, when there have been suggestions that the allied powers fighting Germany might agree to some revision of their previously declared war aims and at a time when hints have been coming out of Germany that the present session of the reichstag might put forth some new state ment on the subject of peace.
 What Are German Peace Terms?
 ''No doubt we can have peace now" said the premier, "at a price. Germany wants neace-even Prussia ardently desires it. They said, Give us some indemnity for the wrongs we have done, just a little territory here and little there, and just a few privl- leges in other directions and we will clear out We are told that if we are prepared to make peace now Germany will restore the independence of Belgium But who has said SO?
 No German statesman has ever said he would restore the independence of Belgium The German chancellor came very near to it. but all the junkers fell Cn him and he received a sound box on the ears from the mailed fist.
 "Ihe crly terms on which Germany has suggested restoring Belgium are not those of independence. but of vsssalage. Then came the doctrine of the status quo and no annexation and no indemnities. No Ger man statesman has accepted even that.
 But what Sdd indemnity mean? Indom nlty Is an essential part of the mechanism of civilization in every land and cline Otherwise what guarantee have we against a repetition? Then this Is not what you are after You are after cur colonies and probably Palestine and Mesopotamia. Ii we had entered into this war purely for the German colonies we would not have raised an army of three or iour millions. We could have gotten them without adding a single battalion to the army.
 Made Desert of Garden of Eden
 "Our greatest army is in France. We are there to recover for the people who have been driven cut their patmmony, the land which belonged to them. As to Mesopota- mia, it is not and never has been Turkish. You have only to read the terrible reports to see what wilderness tie Turks have made of the Garden of Eden. What Is to happen in Mesopotamla must be left to the peace conference and there is one thing that will never happen to it. Il will never be restored to the blasting tyranny of the Turks
 "The same observation applies to Ar menia.
 "As to the German colonies, that again is matter which must be settled by the great international peace conference. When we come to settle who must be the future truS- tees of those uncivilized lands we must take into account the sentiments of the peoples themselves and whether they are anxious to secure the return of their former masters or whether they would rather trust their destinies to other and juster and gentler hands The wishes. desires and interests ot the people themselves of all those countries must be the dominant factor In settling their future government.
 Germans Must Reverse Their Philosophy
 Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis that the nations would not wish to disturb it. It must be guaranteed by de struction of Prussian military power so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies. A better guarantee than either would be democratlza- ton of the German government.
 'No one wishes to dictate to the German people the form of government under which they should choose to live. But 1t IS right that we should say that we will enter into negotiations with free government of Ger many with different attitude of mind and a different temper and different spirit and with less suspicion and more confidence than we should with a government with whom we feel today to be dominated by the az gressive and arrogant spirit of Prussian mill tarism.
 Russian Revolution ExaIts Conflict
 Speaking of Russia, the premier added that there were many hearts filled with gloomy anxiety, contemplating the prospects of a peace conference to settle the future of democracy with representatives present of the most reactionary autocracy in the world. But now Russia is unshackled and free, and her representatives at the peace conference would be representatives of a free people fighting for freedom and arrang- ing future democracy on the lines of free dom. Not merely would the Russian revo lution insure more complete but a higher, more exalted victory than ever was contem- plated.
 Russia will regain her strength with a bound and become mightier and more for midable than ever," Mr Lloyd George con tinued. Although these distractions had the effect of postponing complete victory, they made victory more sure than ever, more complete than ever, and what is more important they made surer than ever the