THE LATEST MOVEMENT.

Northern Advocate, 1 December 1916, Page 3

THE LATEST MOVEMENT.

LONDON, November 29. 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 of Kubin, Loeb and Company and James Soeyer, brother of Sir Edgar Speyer, the noted London banker, are pulling the strings in common. They have immense political and financial resources, and are endeavouring to work up peace feeling sufficiently great to influence Congress. The "Times' " Washington correspondent says that although the active pro-Germanism behind the movement makes the great bulk of American opinion suspicious, there is an increasing section of American intellectuals convinced that the time has come for peace. The "Times," commenting on this, points out that German agents are enabled to use the ».Vmerican Peace Leagues for their own ends, because neutral countries think the British Government's weakness and indecision reflects public opinion. They believe that a war.tired Empire acquiesces in the Cabinet's weakness and indecision. It concludes by emphasising that the whole of the Empise possesses a stern and unalterable decision to continue the war ti'i the Prussian menace is utterly crushed, therefore American interfer ence is unthinkable. ,