TALK ABOUT THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 2

TALK ABOUT THE WAR.

is theVllerd Indian- among tfations/artia ncr path i&the w.arpatli.— Mr H:'<s. We]ls. It is a glorious dayj we are living1 in one of the great historical', epochs' of ,the world.—Sit Oliver, Lodge. ■- *. f '• c ]_, • *• * Comradeship will be the greatest boon bestowed^b ythe world's greatest war.—Mr Victor Grayson. Germany is on the brink of her most momentous blunder—a war with the United States.—New York Herald. Germany is the cuckoo chick in the world's nest; it wants to shove »nd wriggle every possible rival country out of existence.—Mr H. G. Wells: "We expect thorough fairplay from America," says the Crown Prince. Of course they do. But don't they hope they won't get it.—Globe, I Here is my recipe for worry: "Think of the Kaiser and realise that you are the luckiest dog imaginable."—Mr Edison. I This war will outline the future of peoples, like those geological cataclysms which last, a moment* and change the face of the eartb for all time.—M. Bergson. We may confidently expect an efficiency in the codnuct of this war to be developed by England and Prance which ■ will be sup"erior to the efficiency of Germany.—Dr Eliot (America). The German people are warned not to waste soap. It is a timely warning. They will ne ed all the soap in Germany -presently''.to.■wash, out the stains of their own "frightfulness."-—Star, London. V " ■'• : ■-•":- -' ."; ■- -■ '■•■ ■; I , British business men' were mistaken in employing Germans. They are cheapest, but they are paid spies, and in no manner must we ever employ Germans again.—Admiral Sturdee. Compulsion is against all British instincts . Above all > v- it is a .Prussian method. We who profess to be fighting for liberty and democracy must keep' away from the militarist methods of the onemy.—Robert Blatchford. In Europe itself the present titanic conflict can, I believe, be best interj preted as the last struggle for existence i of aristocracy before its final exit from ' the world's stage.—Dr. I. Iyenaga,. | Professor of History, Chicago University. •Nobody has greater confidence than • myself that we shall succeed in creat- . ing a peace which will secure for our children's children the blessing of beI ing no longer threatened by bullying , Prussians and militarists.—Sir Edward j Carson. We may have days of depression, and even of reverses, before us in the ! future, but we need feel no doubt rej garding the .ultimate triumph of right ; over might, and civilisation over mediaeval barbarism.—Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India. " ~ Time, in this long-drawn test, is on | the fcide of the right. The Dual Al--1 liance haa made its maximum effort; the Triple Entente has not, and the decisive hour has not yet sounded.— M. Deschanel, President of the FrenebJ Chamber. Germany is not content to be on the Continent of Europe "first among | equate," but rather than that she i ! should be "everything" there is not a' i Britain, who will not lay down his life I j gladly. She will never be "everything" I while there is one cartridge left.—Mr A, J; Balfour. Germany is doomed to sure defeat. j Bankrupt in statesmanship, overmatched in arms,, under the moral condemnation of the civilised world, she wastes her diminishing substance in a hopeless struggle that postpones, butj cannot alter, the fatal decree.—New ' York Times. The new British soldier may not be 1 so terrible a fellow as the famous Gas- 1 con, who could not look in a mirror] without being afraid of himself. He! will probably suffer more acutely and i more fearfully than any soldier has hitherto suffered in battle. But he^ will «ndure and lie will conquer.— Harold Begbie, in the War Budget. Tears dishonor us. Let us rather be thankful that Belgium, of all the countries, was privileged to be the first and most vital rampart of modern civilisation against savagery and brutal aggression, and that her name in. future will be joined to those few small nations whose fame is immortal.—M. Emil Verhaeren, Belgium's greatest author. It is simply absurd, if not absolutely | insane, for the Germans now to make us believe that they were not. the aggressors, when evpn to-day in every j line which they publish they' assert that i I they are the strongest race in the [ world, and that it is for the world's I benefit that they should rule it.—Sir Wilfrid Laurier. j