New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-16
whole Strength OF
NATION NEEDED NOW
Armed Forces Must Be Rushed
Across, Baliour Asserts

most pressingly required is that the
fighting forces of the United States
should be brought as speedily as pos
sible into the feld,' said A. j. Bal
four, the foreign secretary, in speak
ing to the American labor delegation
yesterday.
THE Germans plan" continued
Mr.. Balfour. lis to shatter the Brit
ish army before the American weight
can be brought into the scale. The
German inspired press has been in
structed by its masters to show the
utmost contempt for the American
military effort. But the masters do
not share that contempt They are
planning their whole campaign, and
are sacrificing men with reckless ex-
travagance IN order that the Ameri-
has been struck"
In proposing a toast to the allied
cause, Mr.. Balfour said:
THE two speeches which we have
Just listened to would have convinced
any doubter, If such exists elsewhere,
that the spirit in which the United
States Of America has thrown itself
into this great struggle is a spirit Of
idealism, not in the sense in which
idealism evaporates in eloquent
phrases and empty formulate, but in
that spirit in which idealism recog-
nizes that to bring his ideals to
fruition one must make efforts and
show those great sacrifices which are
now being so surely demonstrated by
our friends and brothers across the
Atlantic"
That mission, he proceeded, repre-
senting as it did the activities OF the
United States in so many different
spheres and characteristics, had ar
rived at Britain's shores at a moment
Of interest. 1t was a moment Of spe-
cial interest, not chiefly because OF
the great and anxious struggle now
going on, but because the Allies had
revealed to them in plain, unnlistak-
able characteristics both the political
and military plans Of those who con-
trolled the destinies of Germany.
ing the last year or year and half"
he said, "of strange regeneration on
the part Of those who wished to de-
Jude either the German. neutral, or,
it might be, even the allied public
with regard to- German intentions and
m ethods.
Russian "Victory'' Changed Views.
There was moment before the
facile success which Germany OBJ
tanned against an unresisting enemy
an enemy in the east, when German
statesmen and German members Of
parliament discussed public affairs,
which would lead one to suppose that
Germany was in a high way to demo-
cratic institutions and to heartfelt
adoption of the four principles which
President Wilson has made famous
throughout the world. Events in the
east gave them fa,ctle success over
the takers in Russia, and the whole
aspect of politics and public opinion
among the Central Powers has en-.
tirely changed.
They now almost cynically admit
that the resolution of the Reichstag,
of which we have heard SO aauch, all
the talk of no annexations and in
IDENTITIES, of considering the wishes
of subject populations, of spreading
the principles of security and free
dom throughout the world, was what
we sometimes call camoufiage."
All that was not thrust aside. Ger
man methods were actually being
ca FRIED out before the eyes Of all in
H. r,Fp mic in ~ hay
communities bordering on the east
ern frontier of Germany. In mo-
ments of adversely Germany used
fine language. which she had been
taught, indeed, by the statesmen of
the allied powers and principally by
President Wilson, but which she had
learned but imperfect1y and under
stood not at all. That was one OF the
phases Of contemporary events which
made the present moment extremely
Interesting. The other was the plain,
clear revelation of the German mill
tary plans.
Germany Robber State.
She now stands forth undisguised
as a robber state" declared Mr.. Bal
four. How is she going to carry out
her robbery so far as her internal
politics are concerned? Her methods
are simple. If things are going
wrong, or are not going as we'll as
her optimists expected, then they
tell the German public: You must
fight on because the powers against
whom you are fighting desire nothing
less, and will be content with moth
ing less, than the total destruction
of your country
AN absolute falsehood. The de-
struction of Germany has never been
an allied aim, and Is desired, SO far
as I know. by no sane man In the