"NOT A SHORT WAR"

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14802, 19 June 1918, Page 2

"NOT A SHORT WAR"

■ MR LLOYD GEORGE'S DISBELIEF I : IN COMPROHISE.

-| "The Great Crusade," extracts from. ! speeches delivered during the war by ' Mr Lloyd 'George, and arranged by Miss- ■. P.. L. Stevenson, one of iiis secretaries, ■i will shortly be published. For this • j volume Mr. Lloyd George has'written'" a 11 special preface,, in which Ira says:— >j "I have-never believed the war would ;be a short war, ov that in some mysteri- '■' ous way, by negotiation or compromise,, "iwecould free Europe from the malign-- -: ant military autocracy which is enideavouring to trample it into submis- ;; sion and moral dbath. I have always ■ j believed that- the machine which has esj tablishcd its despotic control.over the ■ ■ rest of the world, would only bo destroy'.ed if the free peoples proved" themselves .! strong and steadfast "enough""to- defeat ' .its' attempt.in arms. The events of the .; last few weeks must have made it plain 1i to every thinking man that there is no •longer room for compromise Between the 'ideals for which wo and our enemies I stand. Democracy and autocracy have ! come to death-grips. Oho or the other will fasten its hold on mankind": It ig ja clear realisation of this issue which ( Mill be our-strength in the- trials to icome. I have no doubt that freedom .-Swill triumph. B,ut whether it will -triumph soon or late, after a final" su- ■ preme effort in the next few months or 1 a long-drawn agony depends on the vigour and self-sacrifice with which the : children of liberty, and especially those 1 behind the lines, dedicate themselves. [to the struggle. There is no time for 1 lease or delay or debate : The call is 'imperative. The choice is clear. It is ' ,for each free citizen to do his part." ; " ' ... ...I hi .. I ■ ....