New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
Britain to Give
Colonies Voice
In Peace Pact
God of Brute Force Must
Be Broken" Lloyd
George Says

LONDON, July 13.-Thc govern
ments Of the British dominions will
nave voice in determining the terms
OF peace, according to Mr. Lloyd
George. The Prime Minister made
this statement in a speech at dinner
given in honor of the Canadian editors
who are visiting England, at which
Lord Beaverbrook was the host.
This is q war in which we engaged
the empire" said the Premier, when
we had no time to consult the domin-
ions as to policy, and it is perfectly
true that the policy which we adopted
to protect small nations in Europe was
a policy embarked upon without any
consultation with the dominions. But
you approved Of it. Hencefortn you
have the right to be consulted as to
the policy beforehand, and this is the
change which has been effected as a
result of the war.
"Thc contributions which you have
made to enforce these treaties have
given you the undeniable right to n
voice in fashioning the policy which
may commit you, and for that reason
an imperial war cabinet is reality.
Another point in which you must
have voice is the settlement of the
conditions of peace. We have discussed
war aims and the conditions under
at the War Cabinet. We arrived at an
agreement on the subject last year with
the representatives of the Dominions
and we shall reconsider the same prob
lens in the light of events which have
occurred since-and we shall recon
slider the whole of these problems, I
have no doubt, in the course of the next
few weeks.
Canada and Australia and New Yea
land, yes, and Newfoundland-th they
have all contributed their share of
equal voice with the representatives of
these islands-will determine the con-
ditions under which we are prepared to
make peace. Unless | am mistaken, we
arc pretty we'll in agreement upon
them.
eve in this country, who have lost
hundreds of thousands and have had
millions manned, and you in Canada,
whose casualties have amounted to
scores of thousands, and Australia,
who has also played her share in these
thlngs-we are not making these sac
rifices in order to establish fraud
VII llilS edItll, anu aHytniHg Tess lnail
a real peace will be defrauding not
this generation, but the next genera
ton; it will be defrauding humanity.
"rhere must be no hugger- mugger
peace. 1t must be a real peace. We
are not waging war for the sake of
killing or of being killed, but for the
sake of establishing Just and durable
peace for the world. You cannot make
peace unless it is both just and likely
to endure.
Germany has waged three wars, and
each time she has added through
those wars to her strength, to her
power, to her guidance, to her inf1u-
cnce, and each successive war she has
waged has inevitably encouraged her
on to the next. If she had had one
check she would not have had this
war. If this war succeeds in adding
one square yard to her territory, of
adding one cubit to her stature, of
adding single iota to her strength,
it will simply raise their idea of Mill
tarism, for which the world is being
sacrificed at the present time.
"The god of brute force must this
time forever be brogen and burnt in
its own furnace"