The Daily Missoulian., 1918-01-19
CERMANY'S FANCS
Barred IN PARLEY
Noted British Writer Sees
Admittance by Kaiser That
He Drew Sword.
SEES HIM UNASHAMED
Plan Of TeutOn Territorial
Aggrandizement and
Slavery Uncovered.

! Interpreting the terms of peace Of
fercd to Russia by Germany. accord
ing to the Chicago News, Loyat
Fraser one of the strongest politica
writer's Of the day, says:
| For the first time we see Germany
| naked and uDashamcd She has ad-
mitted that she drew the sword and
| plunged the world into deadly strife
| in order to gain control of great ter
ritories and subject millions of hap
| less folk to permanent slavery. We
are approaching a subtle danger OF
the nature Of which the Germans are
well aware. It is not going to be easy
to make the nation understand that the
enemy can afford to relinquish most of
her gains in tho west and still obtain
in the east such spoils as ultimately
would leave rs In peril as great as
ever. ....
Must Not Leave Germany Undefeated
"lt is not going to be u light tas,;
to demonstrate that 1t is an important
to fight f9r a free Poland and an un-
conquered Courland, as for a free Bel
GUM; that If the Germans make inn
mcnse veiIcd conquests in the east we
still shall have lost the war and that
If we leave an undefeated Germany to
tatten on the PROSTATE peoples Of
eastern Europe and middle Asia she
VIII renew the old mad game of the
sword at the very first opportunity.
The very names are unfamiliar TO
the British public. How can thcv care
III.
Esthonia, the distant Kazan and the
still moro distant Bokhara?
yet an effort must be made for the
fate of the war may depend upon IA
right understanding of the intct ton
revealed at Brest- -Litoysl<."
Lloyd George Reassures Workers.
This effort to keep the British pub.
lie soundly well informed is rendered
immensely less difficult by Mr.. Lloyd
Georges latest speech to the leaders of
British trade unionisn. Before this
there was n growing disposition among
the working people to question the war
aims of the government. Pacifist agi-
tators industriously stimulated this
tendency. Now. Mr.. Lloyd George, by
specific definitions Of the governments
war aims has reassured the workers
and deprived the pacifists of their most
effective ammunition. All apparently
vindictive words and phrases suscep~
tible of distortion in the interest of
kaiserism are absent from the pre-
mier's latest utterance. It's unwontedly
mellow and persuasive tone is believed
to have resulted from Mr.. Lloyd
Georges consultation before it's de-
livery with the labor chiefs and the
ripe statesmen of the conservative and
liberal parties, especially Mr.. Asquith,
the former prime minister, and Wis
count Grey, the former secretary
state for foreign affairs.
Only one word in the speech is
queried today, and that is "reconsid-
eration' as applied to the question of
Alsace- Lorraine. However any mis-
that might arise from
this word is prevented by the declara-
ton that Britain will stand by the
French ito the death" in Tighting this
great wrong.
Needed Sympathy of Labor.
For the government to regain the
sympathy of labor in Great Britain
was imperative. The labor party as
rpDrnani2ed and omen Ia the whole nf