Arizona republican., 1918-04-11
The Naked Truth

Premier Lloyd George has barred his soul to the British people and to all the allies He has laid be- fore them the situation in all it's desperateness He has exaggerated nothing minimzed nothing and con- cealed nothing. From the beginning the British pre- mer has not induIged in that bunk which has so gen. eraly distinguished the uterances of public men who have told us that we are sure to win the war; that we must win it; that we cannot lose it.
 Lloyd George tells us that cannot win the unless whip the Germans and that we cannot whip them with the that immediately avail able The righteousness of our cause cuts little fig ure now. Neither does the traditional bravery and dash of Americans, British and French. We cannot win unless win; we cannot win on past per- formances. We have been fed up on camouflage and big talk, and its effect has been enervatng to of us and disgusting to others of In breath the truth has been gingery hinted and in the next lest the truth strike a panic in us, have been told that the situation is serious; that there is cause for alarm.
 Ever since the great offensive began interpreta- tions have been placed on the daily war news which must have robbed the man of his confidence in either the honesty the intelligence of the inter- prefers Any man of ordinary sense, armed with map of France could see how the battle was going. He was not deceived by statements regarding the repulses of the statements that the allies had retired to previously prepared positions. The map shows that the Germans were steadily approach ing a natural objective It for the inter- preters to sscribe to the Germans impossible reasonable obectves and then to point out that they had failed to attain them. The public could see through this fierce knocking about of of straw. There is nothing and there has been nothing to ind- cate that the Germans immediately striking at another point than Amiens. What they saw be- yond that guesswork.
 All this chaff which has been showered out has been blown aside by Lloyd George who admits that he is taking step which nothing but the drest cessity has forced-the imposition at the same time Of home rule and consc-ption upon Ireland, and the extension in the United Kingdom of the conscrip ton age to fifty years, and in cases to ftyfive years. The need of man-power is most desperate.
 The premier is aware that home rule will be bitterly opposed and that eonscription will produce revolution; that the revolution will be suppressed after some time and that the fruits of conscription will be reaped. They cannot of course, mature inn mediately. The man-power from Ireland cannot be- available at But it is for the future that the premier providing, however great the necessities of the present may be. It is plain to the premier it be any student of the events of the last three weeks that the first result of the great offensive will be the iengthening of the war. At the worst there can De no carly declSNe victory tne it is equally clear that there can be quick crush ing of the Teuons. If it had been written in the book of fate before March q that the would end favoraby to the allies in year two years the events since that time have postponed the ending indefinitely by months and, perhaps. by years.
 The lead taken by the British premier should be followed by all those who assisting in the direc ton of the It is not enough say that it is war for democracy, humanity civilization, for righteousness, and must therefore, be Let the people know the unadulterated truth that it is war for self preservation. Let them forget for while our previously announced aims and face the fore most aim, self preservation. Let them understand without any pleasant coloring of the picture that this aim will be attained only by straining every nerve and that the straining must be done ntelligenty.
 Undoubtedly the people have been led to believe that the supreme command in France has something mysterious up its sleeve" Lloyd George dispes that notion. And the British official report of Monday night confessed that the designs of the Germans yet been unfathomed.
 The Public