SPEECH BY MR LANSING.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14892, 15 October 1918, Page 5

SPEECH BY MR LANSING.

THE BASIS' OF PEACE

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association}

New York, Oct. 12

Mr Lansing, in his speech at New York, said: "We know that the German military leaders and armies will be defeated. The Allies are now sweeping back the invaders, who are broken-spirited, sullen and hopeless. Thoughtful men know that the coming peace will not be lasting if its terms are written in anger and revenge instead of a spirit of strict justice. It is safer to say that the peace which will come when the world is safe from a beast still at large will satisfy the just but not the unjust wishes of all peoples. It would be unreasonable to expect the peoples who have suffered agonies in [the, war to accept pre-war conditions. | asi. the basis of the future national, and I international order/