THE PEACE TREATY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1082, 22 March 1911, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

VARIOUS VIEWS. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyricht London, March 20. Mr. G. N. Barnes, Labour M.l', for the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow, speaking at Walworth, said lie hoped Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Slate for Foreign Affairs, would not overdo the Anglo-Ameri-can aspect with regard to arbitration. An American and British alliance might well bring new troubles. The German bogy had yet to be buried. The- Rev. Dr. Clifford, preaching at the Westbourne Park Church, said recent pronouncements had introduced a new factor in the international situation. Hitherto, the ideal had been never to fight unless there had previously been arbitration; now, the ideal was to arbitrate and never to fight. After the Rev. Dr. Horton's address at the Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, the congregation rose 'to their feet to signify assent, and then sank to their knees while a prayer was offered up fov the success of Sir Edward Grey's proposals. Mr. T. Gibson Bowles, ex-M.P. for King's Lyrin, speaking at Bath, said he feared the world would regard a treaty between the United States and Great Britain as an offensive and defensive alliance of the Anglo-Saxon order, which would dominate the world, and thus lead not to peace, but to war. Canon William Danks, of Canterbury, in a sermon, said it was well to hasten sane views with regard to war. While welcoming a league of peace, they should not allow that to be a reason for encouraging unpreparedness and lack of discipline or public spirit.

SIR W. L'AUEIER ENTHUSIASTIC. ' . (Rec. March 21, 11.25 p.m.) Ottawa, March 21. The Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, warmly supports the Anglo-American arbitration proposals. He eulogises Sir Edward Grey's speech, and states that he looks to the future for the realisation of a peaceful union of the English-speaking peoples.