A GREAT ROBBER STATE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14589, 26 April 1918, Page 6

A GREAT ROBBER STATE.

BALFOUR .Rjir^^ip^ttON;; . A; * -LONDON, -Aipril; l'/> j^peaking at the American luncheon, Mr. Balfour \^ecr'p.tary-*-. l'o^i ! Foreign Aff^r&J said there was A * timeA-l'hen Ger-" mah£, seemed _ on the high \vayf4o democratic iristitrntioris; '. but; ithe .Gfeii'tral Powers! how cynically admitted -th&t "'the July, resolutions of the Rfeiehstagyiioregoirtg- indenwuties/ and ' con^driTg^'th^' right to populations to iTecidA their^ bwit' destiny. Was mere camouflage,^ ,A.ssA^—]" . * Germany now -stood ''Undisguised as' a great . i'obber • Stater Internally ; lier methods wero 'dimple.' If'thirig'S Svent. badly she: told her p^jjle that'th^-Allies-were determined iipon the 'destruction of Germany. This had never beeii the Allied Aim. No man m thei civilised woxld dea'ved- it.', If things' I .'went *well : the' ml : ers of 'wrtlitary Germany assiired ;the people* th at dem ocracy never would -or could have given the things which Prussian militarism has given. " German y," said' Mr. Balfour, "is out j to reduce, France,' England, and America to the position of second-class Povets. . Germany desires tP be a greai Colossus } astride •fvithout a rival, and without '-a" critic. For that reason Germany is today ; almost' without- cohsideraiioh/ pouring forces into Frft-nce. "Of th« war^ I don't iliink 4h6 German corhmand is going to succeed. They hope they will have struuk a decisive blow before Amerifca'sblow : can be* pitch .-' ed\ ihtd-the'soaie..' but Germany has made mahy* false c'aletilaiions, and ismakiiig a profound regarding "America's askfstance m this . final; struggle. ;Long brfore'th^ end, 'Ahierida'f* full -weight' wiir ha^vc borrle fruit."