Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-16
|BERAL EDITORS
IN ENGLAND GLAD
Of WILSON VISIT
His Terms En1bOdy the Hopes
of European Liberalism and
Defeat of Reaction, Says H,
W, MaSSingham of Nation.

Copyright, 1918. by the Press Pub
/ fishing Co.
I Especial Wireless Dispatch TO the
World and Albuquerque JournaL)
! London, Dec. 15.-With President
| Wilson'S arrival in Europe the cor
respondent of the journal has obtain
| ed from three great editors of liberal
papers in England their Views of its
momentous consequences. They are
/ Henry w Massingham of the Nation,
! G. 2. Scott of the Manchester Guard
ian and Alfred G. Gardiner of the
London Daily News, who have been
the stanchest supporters Of the pr"si-
dent in this country throughout the
war.
II regard the success of President
! Wilson'S visit to Europe" Mr.. Mas
| singham says, las vital to the peace
and freedom Of democracy, Of whose
! causes he is the chief defender, and
should he fail, they must fail also.
/ Tho allies have accepted his terms,
and they alone embody the hopes of
European liberalism, of which he is
the true leader, and insure the de-
! feat of European reaction
The British democrats therefore
look TO your last great president as
they looked to your first one, to give
, a new birth to freedom and happiness
| to the world
THE presence Of the president at
| the peace conference appears to me
necessary first, says Mr. Scott, be
cause its policy has been cnunciated
! by him, policy which has been ac-
cepted by the allies as the basis for
/ the future world settlement. and he
can best eSpound ana most effectively
| defend his own policy; secondly, be-
cause he is the only statesman of the
first rank to think out any policy at
1 all; ana thirdly because he is a very
! great, man and has addressed himself
! TO the Whole problem in a large disn-
/ terestcd spirit, and because the prin-
! ciples he has sought to establish, if
! honestly applied, would give us such
peace as would, in truth. compensate
| for the immense losses of the war.
His Task Not Easy.
/ Let there be no mistake, he will
have no easy task. s.Chauyinism is not
dead, imperialism is not dead in any
/ of the great European countries, and
! selfish interest will make hard fight
against justice and larger view of
/ policy Of all the nations, America
seems least for herself, is the most
] detached from European quarrels and
ambitions, and. all reverse to the ira
ditions of the old diplomacy. entered
the war in the loftiest purpose.
/ by her effort and by her sacrifice
she has, beyond question, turned the
course of the war and given us swift
and unqualified victory; let her show
herself equal to the great occasion
and help give us also q peace such as
our children may have reason to be
| proud. 1t can only be done by put
ing her power without hesitation and
without stint at the back of her pres
ident.'
President VS.. Kaiser.
Mr.. Gardiner says:
THE visit of President Wilson to
Europe has struck the Imagination of
England as no other personal Incl
dent of the war has done. IT is not
the novelty of unprecedented occur
renee which accounts for this: pri-
marily it depends upon interest. but
the main factor is something much
more impressive-it has to do with
the striking part which the personal
ity of the president played in the
later stages Of the war, and the clear,
incisive policy of world emancipation