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Tie Guar antees Of Peace

HaA Game IS in ag! cement "ith
most lEng lishmen and most Aneli-
cans. ke imagine. when lle says taat
Humanity asks nothing oi peace
now 9ut what il took into Nal three
years. aso-the desire tor JG-t.ce,
freedom, and security" lie does
no, present a very good argument
against the demands Tor complete
restitution and tuiI PREPARATION fof
the damage Germany has done IL
Belgium and Northern France. Us
tice demands OF Germany the fullest
possible restitution and PREPARATION,
but since at the end of the war she
viii be an impoverished and bank
rupt nation, there is little use IN
talking about eNactins lndemnltleS
But for whom does Hall Came
speak W hen he utlers the sentiment
embodied in this passage which W"
reprint from his article caoled 10
The New York Times yesterday:
In like manner some OF us who
are not to be counted among the
pacitisIs see no hope for peace in
the demand OF anneXatlons. 1t Is
certainly true that AlSace-LOrralne
was torn from France but yesterday.
1t may also be true that emancipated
Russia, after her centuries OF eli
slavement, must take Constantine
pie if she is not to be shut up half
the year within her frozen cere-
ments. But neither France nor
England entered upon this war TO
readjust bad settlements of former
conflicts, and the experiences OF the
last three years must teach us that
our newest and greatest ally, Amerl-
ca, will go out OF ii, without count
ing old scores, on the first day we
can make righteous peace secure.
Security. Security. Security. That
is all America will ask for
Mr.. Hall Cain eperhaps remem-
beers The Man O. Airlie:'
He wore a coat O. holden gray,
His hands were hard wi labor
But oh. he had an honest way
OF standin' by his neighbor
The alliance is rope of sand If
it does not assure to France the
territories Wrested from her by a
brutal conqueror forty-six years ago.
That is not conquest, it IS not an
neXatiOn, It is restitution More
than all and above all it Is security
for the future, security for England
as well as for the United States. Ii
Alsace-Lorraine is left in the hands
OF Germany, with what sanction can
the Allies now demand of her the
evacuation of Belgium, the restora-
tiOn of Serbia and Rumania TO their
people, or even the surrender of
French territory now occupied,
should peace be concluded before
the Germans have been driven out
Hall Game is mistaken The repa-
ration of old wrongs is an important
element in those objects of justice,
freedom and security for which the
Allies are fighting. England is re
sponsible for some old wrongs, or at
least old plumbers for which she
now has fine opportunity TO make
reparation. When the Prussian
sword hung over France Theirs
made his hurried and wonderful
tour of neutral Europe in quest of
assistance. He visited London. He
pointed out to the British Govern
ment that it was against English in
te1ok n2anne Le England. 10
permN the Germans to crush and
despoil France, that by holding aloof
she was aiding and abetting the
creation of a great Central Empire
with which she herself might have
TO reckon. Polite expressions OF
friendly interest, assurances of deep
regret that England was not free to
intervene even to the ext ant of re
monstrating, and exhorta,ions TO be
OF good courage were all the help
Theirs got from England.
He visited st. Petersburg. Car
Alexander ii. was also profuse in
his expression of sympathy. He ad-
mitted that Russia would regard
with grave concern the development
OF great and military empire in
the heart of Europe. but unfortu-
nately there We're complications.
commitments and embarrassments