The Peace Movement

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13564, 1 December 1916, Page 2

The Peace Movement

(Reuter Telegram.) LONDON, Nov. 29.

In the House of Commons Mr J. Swift MacNeill suggested that with the object of counteracting peace intrigues the Allies publicly declare that they will not cease fighting while the Germans occupy any Allied territory. Mr Bonar Law: The question is one for the Allies in concert. The advisability of the suggested annaance 1 - ment is doubtful, because it might have been taken to mean that it "was all we asked.

I "The Times" says that the latest American peace campaign is the most influential yet launched. Jacob Uxhieffy, head of the great New York banking-house, Kiubin, Loeb and Co., j and James Speyer, brother of Sir j

Edgar Speyer, are pulling the strings in common with immense political and | financial resources, and are endeavour- , ing to work up a peace feeling suffi- j ciently great to influence Congress. "The Times' " Washington corres- j pondent says that although active pro- ' Germanism is behind the movement, j it makes the groat bulk of American |;

opinion suspicious, mere is an increasing section of American intellectuals convinced that the time has come for peace. "The Times," commenting, points out that German agents are. enabled to use the American Peace League for their own ends. Because neutral countries think the British Government's ■ weakness and indecision reflects public opinion, they believe a war-tired Empire acquiesces in Cabinet's weakness and indecision. The article con- | eludes by emphasising that the whole j Empire has made a stern and unalter- j iable decision to continue the war till the Prussian menace is utterly crushed I and therefore American interference I as unthinkable. j