Mr Balfour In America.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 32, 27 April 1917, Page 8

Mr Balfour In America.

SOME PLAIN SPEAKING. ' New York, April 23. _ Mr Balfour, in an interview, said the people of America must realise that they have to face a real fight. They must be prepared to make the individual sacrifices which will be de- 1 manded. The war will be a long tax on resources and men and requires all that America can afford to give m financial assistance and commercial and industrial energy. We have come to help America turn the first page of a new chapter in the history of mankind. America does not yet realise all that she will be called upon to do. We Britishers know what it means. Time will bring the war home to you as it has to us. It will be some time before the people of America will realise what they are up against. lam unable to express an opinion on points of policy until I have conferred with the President and officials. I have come in order to do what I can to make co-opera-tion easy and effective between those striving to achieve a lasting peace by the only possible means —a successful war.

President Wilson has proclaimed that the world must be saved by democracy. British democracy hails this as a happy angury that selfgoverning communities . will not be, treated as negligible because they are small. Ruthless domination of one unscrupulous power must not be _ allowed to imperil the future civilisation and liberties of mankind.