STRANDING A PHRASE.
•MR WILSON SHUNTS HIS "PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY." j WITHOUT MEANS WITH. j NEW YORK, January 24. Ail effort to. explain, the meaning of President Wilson V phrase "peace with- , out, victory" 'ds ' mad© by tlio World, which is considered * generally as ' Dr. Wilson's •personal -organ: "Tho >W6i'}d aski, '-'What is peace without victory?" , and declares :•+-' . : ' ' . j "The 'classical •exs.rn pie- of modem 'times is' • f tifhished by tho American 'Civil War. • tfhe-' North completely j crushed th& military power of : ' ; iMe> \ Southern Coivfederacy. It made an end :to slavei'yCAnd 'Recession, but) it' i¥n posed Jno oonqu!ew>i»'s-'-'-'-tc l rnis bit :/ ih&' ! van- j quished. •> "■ '' "■'■ ' ' | "Peace without'' victory means : sinvply that/ no permanent peace can bo imposed by the sword. It does not mean that the !A'Ui^s" ■shall noj. ".t'rush- jCl'ermkiiy'smMitoi^ power irtliey f 'canii«pl occupy -'Bewm; if Uhaf is' possMef . bat > it emphatically- affrms that the terms' of peace ought riot to be dictated by tKe success of'snoh opevations. Peate without victory does not imply war without victory, but implies that a i durable peace must be a peace of justice and humanity, hot merely a peace of the sword/' • •' '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14253, 22 March 1917, Page 4
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