Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-25
ENTENTE ALLIES
Fighting
wilson IDEALS
Bonar Law in Strong Speech
Declares Plan Not Utopian
But Time Not Yet

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LONDON, Eng, Jan. 25.-That the
aims OF President Wilson as express
ed in his senate address the other
night and in noses 10 the belligerent
powers are almost identical with those
for which the Entente Allies are fight
ing is the substance OF remarkable
address delivered in Bristol last night
by Bonar Law, spokesman for the
Lloyd George cabinet and member
OF the war council Of the empire.
The British official declared that the
governments OF Great Britain. France,
italy and Russia are in hearty accord
with the principles outlined by Mr..
Wilson and that were the circum.
stances different would be perfectly
willing to join with him in his plan
for q league OF nations which would
act as constables TO keep the peace
OF the world"
But" continued the speaker. ''the
circumstances are not different unfor-
tunately, as much as Mr.. Wilson and
we ourselves, would like to have them
So We are confronting facts and not
desires nor theories, and we must deal
with facts.
German War Machine Must Be Broken
q Proceeding Mr.. Law declared that
to consent to Mr. Wilson's proposal
at this time is utterly Impossible. as
it would leave the German military
machine, the cause OF this frightful
war, still unbroken. and in position
TO continue the damage il has done
and is doing to the world. This we Of
the Entente Allies simply can not do"
Mr.. Law was addressing a monster
mass called to consider the proposed
British war loan, campaign for
which is being conducted through the
entire country, and took the oppor.
tunity to make an unofficial-or semi
official-reply to the suggestions put
forward by the American president
The speaker did not characterize the
suggestion OF a peace league Of the
nations as Utopian. Indeed he went
out Of his way to assure his hearers
that It Is far from icing such.
"The Germans" he said, through
their chancellor. pr, Won Bethmann-
Holiweg, made what. they were pleased
to call a proffer OF peace. You all
know about that -called-and
know that II received from the Entente
Allies exactly the kind of answer II
deserved.
Plan No. utopisn
at is, however, impossibly to regard
the proposals made by the president
OF the United States in any such light
as we were forced to regard the sug-
gestions that came from Berlin.
"Mr. Wilson, II I read his speech
Alright, is aiming at assured peace for
the future. That also is the aim of
the Entente Allies. We have there
fore no right to call the plan which
he suggests Utopian. That II has been
the elusive dream Of many ages means
save that It Is. was and shall
continue to be worth dreaming Of and
working for with the best that Is in
as. i, with Oliver Cromwell, greatest
soldier Of his time. hope to see the
time when, as he said in describing
his life's work, "the nations of the
world will act as constables to keep
the peace OF the world"
In concluding that portion of his
address Mr.. Law declared that the |
Entente Allies rejected the offer
made by Germany because peace now
means a peace that Is based upon the
victory of the military machine, and
would leave that machine unbroken. |
But what Mr.. Wilson longs for so de-
voutly We are fighting for and shall
continue fighting for until we have
secured It