LIBERALS IN CONCLAVE

Evening Star, Issue 16852, 30 September 1918, Page 5

LIBERALS IN CONCLAVE

MR ASQUITH ON PEACE TERMS,

WOMEN'S SHARE IN THE- STATE.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

LONDON. September 23.

(Received September 30, at 8.50 a.m.)

The National Liberal Federation passed a resolution in favor of the admission of women to the professions, to have a share in the administration of justice, and to have seats in Parliament.

Mr Asquith, addressing the federation, said: 'We must be en our guard, so that our unexampled sacrifices shall not be frittered away. ' They will bo frittered away unless we can procure a clean peaco, which does not offend the conscience either of the victim or of the rest of mankind. We can have no clean peace if thele is a. continuation of veiled war, or ii there is a peace designed to inflict permanent humiliation and dismemberment on the enemy. The Austrian Peace Note was impracticable. The only acceptable peace is one that decides on giving the right of selfdetermination and security to all nations, large and small. " It is in the highest degree undesirable to have a General Election during the war, as it is calculated to dissipate our energy and break up our national unity. "Nothing in the war suggests that wo shall be better off after peace by any system of tariffs—preferential, differential, punitive, or prohibitive."