The sun., 1919-03-20
Brings Rawlinson's Praise Of
tho Grit Displayed by the
9th Division.
FAvORS A SPEEDY PEACE
Says Irish Problem and League
Of Nations Can Well AZ
ford to Wait.


rived in New York yesterday by train
from Halifax, having disembarked there
from the Cunard Line steamship Car
mania Gen. Maurice talked with re-
porters in his apartment at the Knick-
srbocker Hotel yesterday afternoon.
Gen. Maurice is in America in an un-
ohicial capacity. but. he explained. with
the approval of the British Government
and military authorities. He will de-.
liver n series of lectures on the war, in
the course OF which he will tell some
thing of what he observed OF the work
Of the American Expeditionary Forces
Gen. Maurice shortly before sailing for
America made n trip of inspection with
Lieut. -Gen. Hunter Liggett, U S.. A. and
10 able to speak intimately of the Amer
lean doughboy when the latter is on the
Job
While hesitsting to express any def
mite opinion on the problems that con-
front the American people with regard
% The conclusion of a peace treaty Gen.
Maurice said yesterday that the main
thing to do was to conclude a peace
treaty with Germany and settle the
various associated problems later. He
feels that the Irish Question-and he
10 an Irishman himself-may well wait,
and that the moro constructive criti-
ciBm the covenant OF the proposed
much the better.
Gen. Maurice spoke hopefully of the
labor situation in Great Britain and
suggested that the achievement of an
early peace treaty might do much to
check the spread Of Bolshevism through
out the world
Approved Unfned Com mand.
In the course of his interview Gen.
Maurice took occasion to correct what
he thought might have been a wrong
impression concerning himself created
~ correspondents abroad. On this point
ne said:
my attention has been drawn to
the question put when things seemed
In rather q bad way on the other SIDE.
and many people thought we were going
to collapse. I reminded them in that
interview that at the battle of Water
loo the British had stood ell the pound
ing waiting for the reserves under
Butcher to como up. and they did come
UP. In the same way. said. It was
our duty to stand the hammering until
Foch's reserves came up. We accepted
the unity Of command under Foch, and
I said that We should play the game.
fhs correspondents however. omitted
part Of my statement, with the result
that / was criticised as an opponent of
. unity of command. while as a mat
ter of fact i was really in favor OF it,
When one OF the interviewers asked
Gen. Maurice his opinion of the Amer
ioan overseas forces he replied:
ct am glad to have arrived in New
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the Twenty seventh Division. for have
been all over the fields where that d.
vision fought and have seen the men
IN action. The first call I made in town
to-day was on Mator-Gen. Organ.
M him half an hour ago andehe said
to me:
"'The reason why the American SOL
diers who fought beside the British loved
the British army was because they al
ways found that the British commanders
and men were perfectly straightforward.
II they thought they could do job
they said so. If they thought they
couldn't. they said what they thought
They were always ready to give In
formation II they had 1t. and II they
ed not have It they said they did not
There was never any pretence about
thsm.'
1 can return the compliment, becaus,
Gen. Rawlinson, commander OF thu
Fourth Army. with which the Twenty
seventh Division fought when the Hin
derberg line was broken, said to me
"-The Fourth Army loves the Ameri
cans because they know that when the
Americans are given a sob to do the,
20 all out to the last man. as we say
10 do It
That's the sort of mutual esteem
built UP on the battlefield. that l hav,
come over here to pe7,etuate.
Referring to the Irish question ant
other matters to be included in the con
alteration of the hnal peace arrange
ments Gen. Maurice continued:
IT would like to treat with the Irish
question promptly because I am ar
Irishman myself But It is a very com
plicated and intricate question OF poll
tics IN Europe and as far as car
fudge the British Government has de
iiberately left IL alone BECAUSE the MAR
thing Is TO make n peace with Germany
now The less that is done to rais'
controversies now the qucker we will
get the big things done. After the peac,
10 settled we can take Off our coats ant
20 into the Irish question
/'As to the League OF Nations I thinl
there ia no alternative for league o.
some form, but a crisis in Europe tina
may be nearly as serious, II Dot quilt
as serious, as the crisis caused by thu
war. The constitution OF Che propoHet
league as drawn was meant to be sub
3ect to revision and amendment and thu
moro constructive criticism Of the draf
with a view 10 getting the hest possible
form the better 70 rail-.
At believe that the state OF Europe Il
such that II we cannot agree on a con
stitution along the lines that have beef
put forward and II America cannot 30
the league the last state OF Europe ma.
be worse than the first"
Danger of BOlshevism Lessened.
On the question of BolsheMnn Gen
Maurice said:
'sBolshevism of course originated II
Russia The Spartacus movement II
Germany, I think. has no Large fore
Of public sentiment behind 1t. But |
you do goad Germany into despair tn
people will Join in risings of some sort
either the Spartacus movement or Boil
their own.
IF Germany had not been fed-if tn
Allies had continued the armistsce fror
month to month. putting on the screw
tighter each time-there would hav
been much danger, and though tina
danger has been lessened greatly II ha
not been wholly eliminated
"All of which emphasizes the import
ance OF getting the peace terms wit
Germany settled promptly. The Ger
man peonle know that thew are aoln