New Britain herald., 1918-08-01
points,"
 Admits Reefs in the Course

Admits Reefs in the Course.
 Lord Lansdowne admits that the difficulties Of formula ting such a list are serious.
 Diverse and possibly conficting interests have to be reconciled," he continues. We must make sure that we are in line not onIy with our allies but with our great domin- ions overseas. We have to face prob 1ems, political, racial and geographi- cal, Of surpassing intricacy.
 There is a temptation to use vague language and broad general ties, and slide over awkward ques ; tlons. but what has been the use Of our interallied conferences and the meetings of the i'm mperial ca binet IT ! there has been no coordination of our ains?''
 Some of the earlier versions of the allied aims are obsolete, according to the letter. The governing document for a long time was the Allies note Of January 10, 1917, but Russia had since fallen out.
 The secret treaties the disclosure of which so seriously exercised the public mind in this country, he con- inueS, may, I assume, be regarded as liable to revision in many impor- tant particulars"
 Lord Lansdowne refers to the pre- mier's speech of January as being regarded as the most authoritative recital of the Allies war aims.
 Though lengthy and elaborate" he says, "jt is at some points per haps inevitably wanting in precision. The people are asking whether it c+; 1,115 Eo1I Q demands comprised in it are in the same plane and whether no conversa- ton can be commenced until the Central Powers have signified their acceptance of the whole Of them"
 Wilson's Mount Vernon Speech.
 Declaring that there had been other striking statements he writes:
 The most remarkable of these is President Wilson's Fourth of July speech-remark rkable both for what it contains and what it omits. It de rtves additional importance from the fact that our own prime minister immediately and wholeheartedly adopted it.
 Tt is a picture. drawn by 3 great master of the golden age to which we are bidden to look forward. It does not seem, however, to provide those who are in search of a basis for preliminary negotiations with the kind of groundwork after which they are striving.
 If Germany should intimate her readiness to conform to President Wilson's standards a long advance would have been made in the right direction The speech is, however, not an outline of peace terms, but very nobly worded description of the things for which the associated people of the world are fighting
 Even if Germany were ready to combine in the setting up of 3 tri- bunaT for peace and justice. and it could be assumed that her power for disturbing the peace would be re- duced to impotence" he continued we should still find ourselves at the beginning and not at the end of an extremely complicated negotiation We would still he without reasonable adjustment Of the main territorial difficulties necessary, according to MT Balfour, for interna tional stabil- ity.
 When. therefore, the prime min ister announces that the Kaiser can have peace tomorrow if he will ac- cept President Wilson's conditions he surely overstates his case. Nor does he greatly advance it. by ntinating for the benefit of those Germans who are continually warned that we are bent upon their utter destruction that the god of brute force must this time and forever be broken and burnt in it's own furnace.
 Attack on Gen. Shuts.
 Quoting Gen. Smuts' Glasgow speech at length Lord Lansdowne comments: "Hulmoler persons have been held up to execration for using language of this kind. Gen. Shuts has given the coup de grace to the knockout blow, and points the way to true conception of that victory which all of us regard as indispens- able, victory aiming not only at mo- mentary security under which Pres