MR FORD'S MISSION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 564, 30 November 1915, Page 2

MR FORD'S MISSION.

AMERICAN PEACE MOVEMENT.

DEPRECATED BY THE PBIME MINISTER.

, Press Association. • ■ , WELLINGTON, November 29. The Prjjne Minister, interviewed tonight, said':—"My opinion is that the visit of the American delegates to Europe in connection witn the proposed peace negotiations -will not have the j slightest effect. When an Angloi French Commission visited the United 'States some little time ago in connecjtion with the loan project by the Allies, j'Mr Henry Ford, according to the news- _. papers, was bitterly hostile. s|| , '■*■ While I admit that I have a friend- ,"- ly feeling for that, great section of -the . American people, which is not. proGerman, I cannot help thinking that this visit of Mr Ford and his friends, and their 'proposals,' taking them together, are both impudent and impertinent. I, for.one, hop© there will be no peace until terms are dictated by the Allies and until the German armies are. driven back on to German 50i1.,. The Allies have a duty their brave soldiers who have fallen in the war, and it is to see that the lives which have been lost shall hot have been "thrown away, and that is what peace would mean under existing circumstances.' '