PEACE TALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 20

PEACE TALK.

FUTILE AND DANGEROUS. LONDON. June 25. There is much talk upon the expediency of the formation of a- league of peace among the nations to enforce international rights after the war. Mr John Galsworthy, playwright and novelist, has emphasised the danger of the German fires of vengeance smouldering in the event of her not being crushed or merely forced Lack to her former boundaries, lie says : "We do not dare yet to hope for some social revolution bringing to Germany the blessings of democracy-; hence the possibility of her remaining a soldier-ridden State and reorganising for future aggression."

The proposed league presupposes the establishment of machinery for arbitration of sufficient force to secure submission thereto.

Mr Arthur Henderson, M.P., addressing a demonstration in aid of the Northampton Hospital, laid stress on the futility and danger of peace talk, which originated in Germam r .

The Observer says : " Mr Hughes's visit has not only breathed new inspiration into cur patriotic feeling, but has left an historic mark on British policy. He has shown himself a human dynamo, capable of driving a current through our whole system of live wires.''