AFTER WAR PROBLEMS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14500, 4 September 1917, Page 5

AFTER WAR PROBLEMS.

THE ECONOMIC STRUGGLE.

LORD ROBERT CECIL INTER-

VIEWED.

AMERICA'S POLICY WELCOMED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, Sept. 2. Lord Robert' Cecil/ interviewed, said lie did not consider there was any inconsistency in President Wilson's Note and the Allies' policy as decided at the Paris Economic Conference. Tie resolutions at that Conference were purely defensive, aiming at the necessary restoration of the Allies' economic life after the war and protecting ourselves j against any aggressive militarist and | commercial policy the enemy may purI Biie after the war. Germany's schemes for' forcing her allies' into a commercial league showed the real danger ttere was. We considered that economic considerations were as vital as military measures durj ing the war. We must foster our i economic strength as much as the j Army's and Navy's, and attack the j enemy's economic strength with every ; legitimate weapon. Accordingly we rejoiced in America's vigorous export . One of the most potent weapons for impressing on Germany tie folly ond wickedness of their militarist leaders j was to show that the war was unprofiti able. Even existing neutrals were (reaching the end of their patience in .^regard to German outrages, and it was j (scarcely extravagant to say that if the war lasted many months tie Central Powers would find the whole of the rei mainder of the Avorld against them. j*This state of things showed that military force was not everytiing, even if }the German armies were as successful jas the Kaiser boasted they had been. future was increasingly • "dark, which possibly indicated tie ';real solution of the problem of prevent- ! ing/future wars, namely, the financial, j commercial, and economic isolation of. Lan aggressive Power by^ the proposed !) League of Nations.