LEAGUCE OF NATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14770, 25 November 1918, Page 5

LEAGUCE OF NATIONS.

'___. -ROOSEVELT'S WARNING, ...iNiWv YORK, 9. The celebrations throughout the country <sf' the anniversaries of the birth of Lafayette (the Frenchman who fonght -Wilth the Americans m the War m Independence) and of the 'first Rattle of the Marne were marked by many significant demonstrations of America's determination to do her share m achieving' a decisive military victory. At New, York the French Ambassador, Mr Jusserand, was the guest of honor }_t "the , City .-_all>ip > _ wiee^mg attanded _y r -ir Henry ;B_titfgton' Smith, acting High Commissioner for. Great Britain? captains 1 of British warships ; the principal"British, N_?f eridh, V TtaliaW; : J-jpan-ese, Russian, Belgian, and Portuguese officers m the United States; and by Czech and Polish representatives.' ' Stirring messages were read from M» Poincare, MarshaW J?och ,and Joffre, Mr {*_»*/ A^mer|cail ■;• Ambas_a_<or m Paris), • aiid Admirdf Sims. N The principal speaker was Mr. Roosevelt, who said : ' "I wish to insist with all possible emphasis that m the war ' France, England, Italy, and the other Allies have, rendered us similar services. Our army on the other side is now repaying V_i: part our debt, and next year we have every reason to hope, arid we" niust;'' insist, that our fighting ar_iy: m France 'shall surpass jn numbers the fighting ai'nry there ot either France or/Erigland'. The peace iwe win must guarantee full reparation for the awful cost m life and treasure which ,. the Prussiam|s'ed'iGermany of the Hohen- V zdllerns has inflicted* On- . 'the entire world, and "this "reparation must take a form tha,t will render it impossible for Germany to repeat her colossal -wrongdoing. Serbia and Rumania must have restored to them what Bulgaria has taken from theni, the Austrian and Turkish Empire must be broken up, and all subject peoples liberated! and the Turk driven from Europe. France must re eeive back Alsace-Lorraine', and' Be'

fium must be restored and indemnifies talmn Austria must be restored l Italy and Rumanian Hungary to R_ mania. The .heroic Czecho-Slovaks must be made into an independent Commonwealth. Poland?, as a genuinely independent Commonwealth, must* receive back Austrian and Prossaari Poland as well us^R-S-itfn Poland and have her coast-line on the Baltic. Lithuania, Livonia, and Finland must be guaranteed' their freedom, and no, part of the ancient Empire of Russia left under the German yoke. Northern Schleswig should go back to the Danes. Britain and Japan should keep the colonies they have conquered, Armenia must be freed and' Palestine made a Jewish State, and the Syrian Christians liberated." Referring to the question of a League of Nations, Mr. Rooßevelt said: "The surest way to make the wrong-doer keep the peace m future is to punish him heavily. Let us support any reasonable plan, whether m the form of a League of ''Nations br .any other shape which bids fair to lessen the probable number of future wars and limit their scope. Rut a let us laugh out of court any assertion that any such plan will guarantee peace safely to foolish, weak, or timid creatures who have not the willpower to prepare for their own defence. Support any sudh plan which is honest or reasonable.' but support it as an addition to, and never aa a substitute for, the policy of preparing our own strength for our own defence."-