FACING THE FIGHT

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1917, Page 8

FACING THE FIGHT

MR BALFOUR ON AMERICA'S

POSITION

TIME WILL BRING THE FACTS

HOME

DEMOCRACY TO SAVE THE

WORLD.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION^—-CpPXRIG:!!.)

(Received April 23, noon.)

NEW YORK, 22nd April.

Mr. Balfour, in an , interview, said: ''The people of America must realise that they have to face a real fight. They must be prepared to make the individual sacrifices which will be demanded. The war will be a long tax on resources and men, and will ; require all that America can afford to give in financial assistance and commercial and industrial energy. We have come to help America turn the first page of a new. chapter in the history of mankind. America does not yet realise all she will be called upon to do. We Britishers know what it means. Time will bring the war home to you as it has to us. It will be some time before the, people of America realise what they are .up against. I am unable to express . an opinion on points of policy until I have conferred withj the President and the officials. I have come in order to do what I can to make co-operation easy and' effective between those striving to achieve ,a lasting peace by the only' possible meahs-^a successful war. President Wilson has proclaimed that ■. the world must be saved by the democracy. The British democracy hails this as a happy augury, that self-governing comjnunities will not be treated as negligible because they are small. The ruthless domination of one unscrupulous Power must not be allowed to imperil the future of civilisation and the liberties of mankind."