RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 24 October 1916, Page 7

RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR

SEHOODS AGAIN

REFUTED

■{Received Oct. 24, 12.25 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 23-. Viscount Grey, replying to the toast of his health at a-Foreign-press luncheon, said that M. Briand's recent •speech in the French Chamber, Mr Lloyd George's American interview, and Mr Asquith's speech in the House of ■Commons, gave the world the note and tone of. feeling among the Allies, and he endorsed all that had been" said.. "Terms of peace must only be formulated by the Allies acting together, and, until they felt secure, this war would :not end. They, must not forget how 'the war had originated^- Germany's statesmen, talked, oi peace and said that Germany must have guarantees against 'future attacks. If Britain had forced war upon Germany that wotild be a 'logical statement, but precisely be•'(•.ause war had not been forced upon 'Germany the Allies must have guarantees for future peace.

Viscount Grey reviewed the pre-war-negotiations, showing that. Germany alone had refused a pacific conference, and that all. efforts to avoid war hail failed because the will for war existed •at Berlin, and added: "It is because we had this experience that we determined the war should not end until we^ are sure that futui"e generations shall nob be the subject of such a terrible ..trial again." • >