"WE SHALL BE VICTORIOUS."
THE DANGER OF PREMATURE PEACE Sir Auckland Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, addressing a meeting of his constituents at Aldershot, said that if we did not wish to be Germanised, to be made to recognise " the blonde beast" as our superior, to worship his god, and to be forced as a humane people into acting ruthlessly, we mast fight to the end, neither being depressed when hard hit nor ready to bold out our hands to the enemy when he desired a negotiated peace. The time would be most dangerous for u? when the German, for his own purpose, expressed a desire for peace on the understanding that it was a drawn fight that neither side had won. Then every pacifist in the country would redouble his efforts, and we might forget at the moment that, like the crowd on the stage, the pacifists made up vocally what they lacked in numbers. Peace on those conditions would be a sham. It would not bo lasting, and the Morld would sleep with the bayonet and the rifle by its side. Peace with security we could not have until the Germans had teen convinced that their doctrine of superiority was. false. We should, be . victorious; yet victory .would not bo gamed without great aacn-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16847, 11 May 1918, Page 2 (Supplement)
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