PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17078, 4 September 1917, Page 2

PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE.

CONSISTENT WITH ALLIES' POLICY.

LONDON, September 2. Lord Robert Cecil, in an interview, sai dhe did not consider there was any inconsistency in president Wilson's Note and the Allies' policy as outlined at the' Pa:is Economic Conference. The resolutions passed at Paris were purely t^iensive, aiming at the necessary restoration of the Allies' economic life after the war, protecting ourselves against any aggressive militarist and commercity policy the enemy may pursue after the war. Germany schemes at forcing her allies into a Commercial league, and this shows the real danger thereof. We c&nsider economic considerations as vital as military measures during the war. We must f.ster our economic strength as much as the army's and navy's, and rightly attack the enemy's economic strength with every legitimate weapon. Accordingly we rejoice ati America's vigorous export policy/ One of the most potent weapons for impressing on Germany and the Germans the folly and wickedness of their militarist leaders is to show th-.t war is unprofitable. Even existing neutrals are reaching the end of their patience in regard to German outrages. It is scarcely extravagant to say that if the war lasts many months the Central Powers will find the whole of the remainder of the world against them. " TUc state of things sfcows that military force is not everything. Even if the German arms had been as successful as the Kaisei- boasts they have been, Germany's future would be increasingly dark. It also possibly indKvies the real solution of the problem of preventing future wars, namely, the financial, commercial,' and economic isolation of an aggressive Power by the proposed League of Nations. '