The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23
PACIFISTS LAUNCH
VICIOUS DRIVE
ATTACK LLOYD GEORGE GOVERN
MENT, BUT RUN AGAINST
STONE WALL OF LOYALTY.
BALFoUR STANDS TEST FIRMLY
Great Britain Ready to Consider Any
Just and Honest Peace Teutons
Have to Offer.

London-The pacifists made vic
fous lunge against the Lloyd George
government Not daring to tackle the
premier himself again, after the fiasco
of a week ago, they launched flank
attack.
It broke down ANONYMOUSLY against
the stone wall of logic and loyalty OF
Britain's foreign policy whose pilot
Arthur James Balfour, stood his
ground as unfiinchingly as did the
prime minister.
That famous peace letter of Kaiser
Karl to his French brother-in-law, was
chosen by the opposition as the weap-
on wherewith they hoped to hew
wedge into the governments front
But where they thought they would
find an opening, weak spot In the
lineup of the chief powers fighting
Germany-including America-they bit
the granite OF indissoluble unity of
aims and action.
BY innuendo, by mysteriously worded
queries and ambigiously phrased allu-
sions they tried desperately to pic
ture the government as prolonging the
war unnecessarily by it's persistent Icy
stare toward the Teutonic peace
feelers.
In the midst of this sniping fusilade,
Balfour took the bull by the horns
and said the very last thing the
snipers had expected him to say, and
thus disarmed them completely as
Lloyd George had disarmed the mill
tarists.
Will View Honest Peace Proposals.
IF any representative of any belig
erent country desires seriously to lay
before us any proposals." said the
foreign minister, I'VE are ready to lis
ten to them"
Then he added a "but"-the same
italicized but" that has had to be
added to every previous allied express
sion of willingness toward peace.
All the Austro-German efforts made
so far to enter into peace converse
tons Mr.. Balfour said, had not been
made in the interest of a fair and
honorable peace, but only with view
to dividing the Allies. Nor was there,
he added, any symptom that German
public opinion so far as it existed, now
or at any time, contemplated the posi-
bility of what would be regarded as
an honorable peace.
German Peace Not Wanted.
Great Britain's unshakable determi-
Gsrb Ahof
is not a German peace has been Sc
cured, was eloquently voiced by Lord
Curzon in an address before the for
eign press association.
There is no USE" said the member
of the war cabinet, ito discuss our
been announced in unmistakable Ian
guage on both continents. The peace
for which we are prepared to fight.
First, must be honorable; second.
must insure the security of the world
in future generations from devastating
wars third, must be just.
1.-The fact is that at this moment
the only drama is that of the battle
field, the voice that browns all others
is the voice of the guns. An unjust
peace would be the stirred of new
and worse wars. 1t would not only be
a victory for crime, but justification
of new crime.
League of Nations in Existence.
1--WE have heard a great deal about
creating a league of nations in the
future. Let us not ignore the fact
that Ae most powerful league of ma
lions that could be constituted is al
ready in existence. We are fighting
for these nations cause. The issues
must be determined by the people.
Discussion must be free, open and
public. No solution is possible until
the German government and people
are prepared to recognize the cause
for which the world-both allies and
neutrals-are contending and would
contend until the end"
The speaker warned the Allied press
not to heed the enemy's peace propos-
ais, designed to create dissention
among the Allies.
I'VE must refuse" said he, ito give
a hearing to the idea that the prob
lens we are confronted with could
be solved by back stairs influence,
family intrigues, or dynastic agree
ments.