Evening star., 1918-02-22
Can Be But One Answer.

George have made it perfectly clear,
he continued, that we have no desire
| to dismember Germany, dictate hel
constitution or exclude her from fail
share of the worlds intercourse. There
| can be but one answer to Germany:
| challenge and that answer may in
volve greater sacrifice and endurance
| than heretofore"
Allied cooperation and concentra-
| tion of all efforts on national saliva
| tion are two essential conditions FOL
| making use of the resources Of the
allies, Viscount Miner said.
Great and wonderful as have beer
the efforts and endurance Of the Brit
| ish nation during the past three and a
half years, we must be prepared for
greater efforts and hardships in the
| the storm RACES the higher the spirit
Of the nation will rise.
Two Essential Conditions.
There are two essential conditions
for using our great resources to the
full:
"First, more perfect coordination OF
nance within the borders of each al
| lied nation of unity Of spirit and
purpose, suppression of domestic dis
cord and the concentration of all ef-
| forts on one supreme subject-national
| salvation"
Lord Miner contrasted the recent al.
| lied conferences he had attended with
those of year ago and said they were
more businesslike and something like
reasonable machinery for attaining per-
feet coordination was being obtained
The supreme war council at Versailles
was a permanent body of experts al
ways sitting together and always en-
gagged in the study of war problems
from the viewpoint of the alliance as
a whole.
II fear" he added, that we are get
ting into something of a tangle and
are putting forward too many propo-
rather too high. Ordinary people were
puzzled by talk of the Limitation of
frontiers in distant parts Of the world,
trade arrangements after the war and
other such matters. These are impor-
tant details to be settled when peace
negotiations are reached, but until then
am doubtful whethar it is wise to
talk too much about them. They are
only subsidiary to our main object,
which is to secure human freedom and
just and enduring peace.
There is surely now no need of any
elaborate explanation of what we are
hghting for. We are fighting for our
lives and the very existence of the free
nations of western Europe.
"The German military party has pro-
claimed quite openly that their sole
object is to deal a knockout blow to
Italy. France and Great Britain. The
cAiSlcHCc VI lue Tree ndtlOHS OF west
ern Europe was all that prevented
them from dominating Europe and
greater part Of Asia and the establish
ment Of military despotism which
would dictate to the whole world.
1T is no longer a question of de-
stroNng PruSsian militarism, but q
question of whether Prussian militar-
ism will destroy us and sweep away
everything that freesom-loving ma
tions have striven for for centuries. 1t
has been suggested that If we could
make it perfectly clear to the German
people that we were not fighting to
destroy Germany or to dictate to its
people the form of their constitution
the peace party in Germany would be
greatly strengthened and we would be
much nearer a termination of the con-
f1ict.
..But I maintain that we have made
1t absolutely clear. President Wilson
and Premier Lloyd George have left
no doubt whatever that we have no
wish to dismember the German peopls.
or to interfere in; their rights to de-
termine their own form Of. constitu-
tion.n