New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-03-12
TOLSTOI CONFIDENT
RUSSIA Will WIN
Believes Spirit Of Countrynlen
Cannot Be Crushed

New York, March 12.-Speakins
| last night at the annual smoker of
| the Canadian Club at the Hotel Bilt-
more. Count Ilya Tolstoi predicted
tldt Germany would never conquer
HuSSl3, that tho more territory the
Germans appeared to seize from Rus
STA the greater would be the hghtirr,
spirit of the Russian people when it
was aroused and that the day would
come when Russia would win the
! sympathy of the Allies by taking Up
arms again against Germany.
The Russian revolution was of Oen-
eft to the world, Count Tolstoi, said,
because it prevented the consolidation
German and Austrian Etnperors and
their countries.
Had the Russian revolution not
come when it did, he continued,
there would now be an alliance of
the three Emperors Of Europe, an al
liancc that would have crushed the
idea of democracy for generations.
The other speakers were the Rev.
Lauchlan MacLean- Watt, chaplain Of
the Gordon Highlanders and the
Black Watch, also known as the
piping parson' for his ability with
the bagpipes; Major Donald Guthrie.
and Sir George Reid, ex-Prcmier Of
Australia
Chaplain Watt predicted a recrud-
escence of religion after the war, re-
ligion of a more sincere faith.
"I tell you we soldiers are tired of
your division at home" he said. eve
are tired of your squabbles i'll the
name of Christ. After the war we
are not going to return to our old
S11o
churches will have to get rid of their
churchliness and speak to the people
of the things they know.
There is no bigotry in martial re-
Iigion," continued the preacher. It
bunked with a Jesuit priest. We ate
together, worked together. and talked
together. His Jesuitry did not faint
my Presbyterianism, nor did my Pres
byterianism faint his Jesuitry. We
buried Baptist, Methodist, Catholic,
PRESBYTERIAN side by side and let God
sort them out
IT hear a lot of politicians speak Of
war aims after three and half years
Of war. If you ask the men at the
front what their war aims are they
will tell you they want peace, but
they want peace that can only come
by victory over cruelty, wrong, and
arrogance. There must be less talk.
This thing has got to go on until there
is a final finish. We are compelled
to put down might with might but
ours is the might that has the
righteousness of a right cause behind
it,
When any one asked him when the
war was to end Major Guthrie al
ways asked, he said, How are we go
ing to lick the Germans?'
1.-THE four and a half million OF US
have something to say about this
peace settlement" he continued. ut
is not all matter of what the poll
ticians at home say. We have made
up our minds. Notwithstanding the
plans of certain politicians, notwith
standing the talk of pacifists which
is treason, Notwithstanding socialists
and other pestilential persons, we
have made up our minds that the
war will not end until, as the presi-
dent says, the world is made safe for
democracy.
'I am often asked whether the Ger
mans will break through the western
front When you think of the few
guns we had two and a half years
ago. virtually pepguns, and the lack
Of ammunition, and you realize that
they did not break through then, you
will realize that they have as much
Of chance to break through as they
have of pulling the SUN from the
heavens at midday. Two and half
years ago the British bulldog took
the German wolf by the paw, and in
spite Of heavy bonn bardments he held
IN pri,n1v. With every blow the bull
dogs grip went up the VOLTS leg until
now it Is near the shoulder, and soon
II will be at the VOLTS throat, and
that will be the end"