Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
Lloyd George Sees Peace Hope
Exploded by Munich Bomb
Long and Relentless War Is Predicted;
Attack on Muqinot Line Doubted
By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE.

BY DAVID LLOYD GEORGE.
LONDON-The war was maintain
ing its inscrutable course, with nc
heavy losses and no discernible ad-
vantage to either of the parties
The question asked was not when
will the war end?" but when will
it begin?" Not only when. but how
and where? Its most exciting cpl.
sodes were not It's battles but its
speeches.
Millions turned on their radios
noon. night and morning not to
ascertain who won but to find out
what "he" said. The chief COM
batants were not soldiers. sailors OF
airmen, but Molotoff, Hitler, Goer-
ing, Chamberlain. Halifax, Churchill
and Mussolini. Behind them were
swarms of propagandists During the
Boer War there was phrase coined
about these oratorical Furnishings
killing Kruger with mouth"
There never has been such a clat-
ter Of tongues between the heralds
of embattled nations finging scorn
anger and defiance at each other
We were hoping it might continue
to the end OF the war. While II
lasted 1t was better than an air.
raid shelter for the blacked out
nations. There was chance that
this exhibition would soon become
so ridiculous that these great states.
men would find it necessary to talk
about the terms of peace and not
the causes of the war.
! Hitler Speech Ominous.
Hitler's Munich speech did moi
bid us hope for such a propitiou.
ending to this war of words. Il
was the bitterest attack he ha.
yet made on Britain, and his china,
that what remains to be said viii
be addressed to the British in Z
language they will look.
like q prelude to the long and re.
lentless war" predicted by Mr.. Wins.
ton Churchill in the speech he de.
livered few hours before the fiery
announcement of Herr Hitler.
| The two sensational events of thi.
week have been the offer OF medi.
alton by the Queen of Holland anc
the King of the Belgians. and thu
attempt to assassinate the German
Fuehrer.
The Munich bomb will, I fear, have
blown up any chance that nigh,
ever have existed of success for the
peace Intervention of the two SOY.
ereigns. 1t has created a feeling OF
not unnatural evaporation which il
fatal to any appeal to sanity ir
Germany.
Every plot against the life Of
Bonaparte was believed in France tt
have been instigated by Pitts gold
This imputation, we now know, hao
no foundation on fact. Nevertheless
it helped to embitter feeling between
France and Britain and prolonged
the war.
German opinion will readily give
credit to similar stories today, ano
the effect upon peace proposals will
be disastrous. Up to this unfortunate
incident there was no desire or
either side to start the killing.
Britain, France "Horriied."
The excitement in Berlin may sub.
side when it is realized that Britain
and France are Mortified at thi.
outrage, and that two such great
nations are not capable of descend.
ing to these criminal expedients If
the waging of war. The Prime
Minister In his Guildhall speech, die
not think it worth while to take any
notice of the angry rawlings of the
German press about the English
secret service having engineered tn.
attempted assassination of the Ger.
man leader.
Apart from the effect of tn,
Munich explosion, there has been Q
growing feeling that the war cannot
be carried on much longer with
the Indifferent languor which ha!
hitherto characterized its operations
Mr.. Chamberlain predicted a three
years war. Mr.. Churchill prophesiec
q war which would be long anc
relentless" Herr Hitler said he hae
ordered Goering to prepare for 9
five years war. Mr.. Churchill's vivic
phrase describes the prospect will
the nearest approach to accuracy.
There may be no attacks on elab.
orately prepared fortresses, but w
must expect bombing from the air or
ships and harbors on an unprece.
denied scale. The threats of Hitler
Georing and the German press point
in that direction. The German.
have an air superiority over thu
allies which they have not yet ex.
plotted. They know that the dis.
parity will in a few months be re-
dressed by supplies Of airplanes from
the United States of America ant
from Canada
They cannot afford to wait unit
equalization of air forces has beer
achieved. 1t is just possible thai
they may have contracted for thu
purchase of Russian planes. Thi.
may postpone the date at which
equality will be reached. But
doubt their taking any risk at thi.
early date. We should then know
for q certainty how formidable /,
Hitler's secret process or mechanism
Expects No Land Attack
Will the Germans undertake any
military measures on the land front
hurting their lesions against the re-
doubtable defenses constructed b
the French on their fruutiers7 Til