El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-25
BRITAIN WILL
STAY IN FIGHT
Small Pacifist Group Can
not Drive Her Into a Ger
man-Made Peace.

Paris, France. 1Iay 25.-It is very
doubtful whether the British cabinet
seriously proposes TO provoke wide
spread risings that would be certain
to take place il Irishmen were pressed
TO fight; but so bitter is the sentiment
among EngIishmen at Ireland's failure
to pull her weight in the war that
Lloyd George, as has been predicted
in London for months, could not pro-
nose TO raise the age limit and enforce
drastic comb-outs at home without al
least proving TO the country by eG-
pertinent. that Ireland won't 1ignL
Labor hes been in an ugly temper
ever since the Russian revolution on
the CLYDE and the Tyne and IN the
Welsh mining district. while food re-
strictions have provoked unrest in the
north OF England But these 1acls
must not be exaggerated Inc Englsn
like to grumble; the terrible blows tne
country has suffered in france VIII j
think put an end to the serious pa
cffist agitation in labor circles At
least until the offensive is over The
trOublemakers viii then come out or
their holes and try again. vigorous
peace offensive may be expected as
soon as. but not before, lighting on q
large scale dies down in the autumn
II Germany Broke Through.
PEOPLE ask each other here what
England would do il the Germans re-
ally broke through the British front
and isolated the French and Eugll5n
armies. II this terrible tragedy
should take place, am convinced that
the rugged splendor OF the British
character would make itself manifest
When Lloyd George said that were
the armies in France 10 be destroy cd
England would not make peace so long
as a British ship remained aIloals ne
smoke for the nation, and he was talk
ing not rhetoric but sober. truth And
England would expect America 70
back her I'd in that high sesOts g
Aside from British lAbor, now so
bered and brought into line by the
military crisis. apart from the Sun
recalcitranC Irishs there remains Lne
danger whispered about in the report
ed desire Of a small but poWerIul
group Of reactionary Tories TO make
peace with Germany-an AnElo-S5er-
] man peace, "the cynical peace as the
Liberals call IT,
Seeing a False Light
These men are said TO regard mill
tarv victory over Germany as impossi-
] bIe- But. they say. Russia has be-
trayed us. we owe nothing 10 Russia,
and. By giving Germany free hand
in the west we can exact the German
! colonies and a great part or turkey
Italy, they say. deserves no consiqera-
/ ton because Of her poor military
showing. while the ambition Of France
to get back Alsace-Lorraine' Is not
possible Of fulfiument. and British
blood cannot be shed for this impossi-
Lord Afilner is the statesman associ-
J ated By rumor with this program Il
I is an un-English scheme, Would pe
repudiated with horror By the mass OF
1.-THE British people, and must not De
taken too seriously but American
ought to know that such a group Of
I men exists-I do not say that lord
Miner is one OF them-for in all pres
|ident Wilson's recent utterances are
passages showing clearly tnat ne
] knows Of the movement. and desires
Ito make quite clear 70 all concerned
that America would never consent %
lsacrifice the general principles upon
3 which alone q just peace can be con
structed for any such barter OF the
] east against the west. which could
only sow seeds OF more wars
Would Reject such a Peace
} Not only Lloyd George and his FOL
] lowers. but the Asquith group Of lib
erals, the Labor party and even tne
J British pacifist group, speak with
iloathing Of such a peace Those men
VINO favor ii are Imperlalists Of the
D old school, whose ideals and ways OF
] thought are avoWedlv Prussians and
who have always envisaged this wal
as primarily a struggle between the
+ British and German empires for world
E power
ENGLAND IS sound at the core and
I England viii stick. That IS my hon
est opinion. based on years OF study
land Of English conditions. and the
coming trouble in Ireland, and occas-
ional outcroppings Of the nature IN
I dicated above. must not obscure tne
+ fact that all liberal ENGLAND is with
/ possibly a few reservations as 10 sea
Z policy. at one with Americas IDEA
rirht 1918. by tile Mcclure Newspapci
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