Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
A Voice from a Great Heiqht

Voice from Great Height
 The statement of MT Lloyd George last Saturday of of the allies or perhaps rather those of the government Great Britain pleasingly any from any other belligerent nation that it is without waste of words. It is the strongest dearest exposition of purposes objects hat has yet been made. It is which think America, France and Italy will hasten to subscribe. + may be regarded as the first apparently decisive iep toward peace that has yet been taken. Unless Germany is determined upon a the finish, the statement of the British premier furnishes meeting jlace for peace negotiations. We do not that ,eace certainly be established that foundation but that it offers foundation susceptible needed :hanges.
 The statement is not olive branch extended to the Germans It intended primarily for the trades-unons Great Britain and next the reason able pacfsts of all countries especially sa. The premier not in so many words, but by presson here and there makes it quite plain that he has not presented to Germany irreducble minimum the statement a whole, though two things and ;nly two. believe held by him be absolutely Nnd definitely insisted upon One of them is the restoration of Belgium and reparaton for thedamages wrought there, and the restoration and guaranteed Integrity of Serbia. Rumana and Montenegro The ,ther is the principle of self determination by which The status other territory in dispute and that which has been occupied during the present war; be ted In such territory included Alsace- Lorraine, the German colonies, the Russian provinces cuped by the Germans and the domnions of Turkey now held by the British.
 Another thing insisted upon but necessarily with Sut strict definition of the in which it is be secured, is peace without the of war" There is a suggestion for such peace in interna- tional pact and in disarmament a limitation of armament. But the for securing a permanent tore plx fOro tla Same conference would also be considered and agreed upon the means preserving the sancty of treaties
 The dispatch preceding the statement as printed in the Republican yesterday morning is somewhat misleading in the words, France must have Alsace- Lorraine and to this end said the premier the Brit ish nation will stand by the French democracy to the death." MT. Lloyd George did not say that; those the words of a hurried correspondent given to dramatic expression. The premier said There must be a reconsideration of the wrong of '71," meaning that the status of Asace-Lorraine be fixed by self-determinaton
 As to the Dardaneles there two versions of the premers words: the straits must be international ized" and they should be nternatonalized" a vast difference, probably involving billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.
 The crushing of Prussianism and mitarism the premier does not state to be essential however de- sirabe it may be. will be sufficient after all the wrongs have been righted, if means be found to Hold these evils in check The premier in friendly way informs the German people that it would be bet ter for them to put democracy in place of military domination but that he does not insist, and he makes it plain that it is the aim the allies to orce upon them any form of government
 The statement is devoid of that bunk, bluff and Muster which have distinguished nearly all previous Tar utterances of statesmen; which have been made % sound like Latin-American pronunciamentos and which have had other effect than to array the peoples of the fighting bitterly against another
 This statement must produce profound effect npon the wavering Russian people, upon the war weary German population and upon the workingmen of Great Britain who of late have been more querul- ously and insistenty demanding be told what they fighting for. and why this frightful never-end- ing outpouring of blood.
 Lloyd George has spoken from a great height to which no other man in these awful three and a half years had climbed His vision is farther than that of any other living and he out before all men a clear and commanding figure which should arrest attention of mad and struggling world and bring it back to peace.