BASIS OF PEACE.
There are only three settlements statesmanship can contemplate: (1) A defeat of the Allies with the probable decline of all that we call our civilisation, and certain immediate disaster to : Britain. (2) A defeat of tho Prussian--1 ised German Empire so thorough as to forbid its reappearance in arms, and the extirpation from Europe of its " abominable morals. (3) A prolonged l war remaining inconclusive for such a , spacn of time that our civilisation shall * fail under it as surely though loss COll- - temptibly than it would under the 5 blundering attempts of German guidj ance. Of these three issues, the last j j soems to me by far tho least probable; , i next, the fust and most likely of the l ' three, the second.—Hilaire Belloo in " "* T.P.'fl Weekly. - '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 4
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132BASIS OF PEACE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 4
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