IS IT PEACE?

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6440, 19 January 1924, Page 7

IS IT PEACE?

MR LLOYD GEORGE SAYS NOT POSITION IN EUROPE Mr Lloyd ‘ George’s book, “Is It Peace?” necessarily contains statements with which a lot of people will not agree, but there are in it many interesting and arresting things. Here are a few of them:— You cannot talk too long to a Frenchman without realising how this spectre of German childhood haunts France and intimidates her judgment. These children, it is said, are nourished on vengeance; one day the struggle will be resumed, and France has no natural defence against the avenging hordes that' are now playing in German streets. A peace wrung by triumphant force out of the helplessness is never a good peace. There are seventy millions of Germans in Europe. A generation hence there may be a hundred millions. They will never rest content so long as millions of their fellow-country-men are under a foreign yoke on the other side of the Rhine, and it will only be a question of time and opportunity for the war of liberation to begin.