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There can be no doubt about the will of Site British people in respect of the grant of an armistice to the enemy and the fateful step from fighting to negotiation. They are determined not to prolong the war an hour beyond the necessary duration of that un- equalled ordeal, and they are equally deter- mined not to end the war-an hour before their original and unchanged purpose as "'r" belligerents has been accomplished. Unques- tionably Mr. Aequith spoke for a united nation when as Prime Minister he said in November, 1914, in the Guildhall of the 'City of London:— We shall never sheath the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has sacrificed, until France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation, and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed." The slow movement of the great tragedy in events that could not then have been foreseen has both expanded and defined the objects which the British people have pur- sued in the war, but in essence all the points in the policy which President Wilson has so ably and cogently formulated and to which the conscience of mankind has given assent are implicit in that first pregnant statement of Britain's resolve. The question of an armistice as a preliminary, to the settlement of peace-terms is the question whether Ger- many is now honestly willing to abandon the militarism which sha. has worshipped for more than half a century, the absolutism to which she has willingly hitherto sacrificed her freedom, the savagery in which she has taken delight, the lust of conquest which has been the master yearning of her heart, j; and to accept and adhere to that "peace of justice" which her spokesmen now profess to desire. It is impossible for any student of history to believe that the militarist caste which [ has hitherto ruled Germany is prepared I honestly to accept the cardinal principles of [' the policy of the Allied democracies as they have been formulated by the authoritative ¡ spokesmen of the nations now victorious. ¡ The new world-order which the Entente Powers are determined to create is the nega- t tion in theory and in fact of the, Prussian V of the German oligarchy depend upon the of the German aligarohy depend upon the Boaintenance of that creed. Those who up- i hold the tradition of Frederick the Great and Bismarck and seek to give it an ever | wider application are necessarily enemies cf all neighbour States and all free peoples. [ Their function is to perpetuate, war as Prussia's habitual and lucrative trade, and f unless they do that, they have no place in f. the world; their existence, their training, [ their methods, their professions of belief are all signs and symbols of the German will and purpose to persevere in causing periodi- cal wars as "the continuation of policy." Only in one way can the German nation if it f wnogrely dgsir^s %f> .jid itself verting and ruinous incubus convince the oustodians of the future peace that its will and purpose are changed. It murt-overtlirow militarism root and branch and cease to par- ticipate in a struggle, overt or covert, to preserve for the militarists the means of re- organising their plot against the civilisation I of Christendom. ———

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