New-York tribune., 1918-10-02
Balfour Says Central Pow
ers Must Be Prevented
From Embroiling World
in War
British Secretary
Outlines Peace Aims
Recites Manner. in Which
Smaller European Ma
tions Should be Pro-
tected

LONDON, Monday. Sept. so. - The
wrongs of subcrdnated peoples must
be righted and territories occupied by
Germany since the beginning If the
war must have complete freedom be-
fore q League of Nations can be pos
shle and peace secured to the world"
said Arthur j. Balfour, British For
eign Secretary, at the Guidehall to- day.
He explained President Wilson's re-
cent speech in New York and gave his
support to the ideas outlined in it.
"Let me deal with point of future
security" said Mr. Balfour. America
came into the war fully conscious of
what these issues were and wisely
named It's great financial effort after
the cause which it had at heart, for that
cause WAS liberty of the world
"There is yet another cause present
to the hearts and consciences OF the
Entente; namely, that ife we failed in
this crisis not merely to win the war,
but to see that such wars do not rccur,
our task would be but half accom-
plished.
Allies Must Dictate Peace
81 am confident all of you have read
President Wilson's speech. His main
theme was that if the world would
make sure it is going to have peace,
it must come to some arrangement by
which malefactors are to be kept in
order by League of Nations.
"The second proposition was that if
you are to carry out this great ideal
the only time to do it effectually is the
moment when peace itself is being
forged by the labors Of the victorious
powers.
Personally, am very much of the
Presidents mind, that to allow this
occasion to sink into the past would
be to lose one Of the great opportuni-
ties given mankind to permanently put
International relations upon sound,
lasting and moral footing, and you
must so arrange the map of Europe
aud the world that great occasions for
war will not overwhelm YOU =
Bxifour Tells of Past Wrongs
'If you are going to render perma-
nent German domination over Russia.
especially Western Russia, and the
small peoples along the Baltic; ii you
refuse to redress the wrongs OF
Poland; if the subordinated peoples
under the heel Of the German and
again are to be the scene of bloody
wars and the occasion Of hostiities
among their neighbors; if the Turk is
to be allowed to resume his bloody
sway over the territories torn from
him; if Italy is not to have restored
to her and added to her those popula-
tions which really make her indeed an
Italy redeemed; if Greece is to be-
threatened, as in the past, by the domi-
nation Of the Central Powers; if Ser
bia Ia not TO be restored after al her
appalling sacrifices and glorious gal
lantry; il France is not to resume her
full place in Western Europe and IL
Belgium is not to be restored in full
measure; if all those evils are not
potentially to recur-then you rnust do
something more than merely estabtish
a LaRgus of Nations.
They Must Be Righted
You must put these wrongs right
before o League of Nations can set
to work. You must give it clean slate
to work upon. Then and there only
will your League Of Nations work
Therefore. in order to mako a
ASoe"o W .>oo."'" p"o"iDAo cIp
victory is absolutely necessary. Ger
MANY can only be member OF a
League Of Nations when the nterna-
tional system has been reformed by
a great, wise and allie bracing peace,
and that can never take place until
Germny not merely has been obliged
TO change her profession of faith. but
until Germany finds herself in posi-
ton where all her dreams of world
domination are torn to pieces and she
is left powerful. indeed as she will be
left powerful doubtless, prosperous
doubtless and wealthy, but no longer
q tyrant who can use the nations which
she is in a position to influence TO
se y1e her own dreame Of emnlre, -