AMERICA’S MORAL LAPSE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17934, 30 July 1920, Page 5

AMERICA’S MORAL LAPSE.

RESPONSIBLE FOR WORLD’S UNSETTLED STATE. Received July 30, 12.10 a.m. HALIFAX, July 28. Addressing a huge gathering at a civic luncheon tendered to the Imperial Press Conference delegates, Mr. Robert Donald, chairman of the Imperial Press Union, said the failure of America to assume some of the responsibility imposed by her entry into the war was largely responsible for the unsettled world conditions. The two branches of the English-speaking people, acting harmoniously in peace as in war, could l have reconciled or silenced clashing interests in Europe and led the new democratic States into the paths of peace, and established the League of Nations on a sure foundation. Then the world would be safe for democracy. "Let us hope the lapse is temporary. President Wilson was an, inspiring moral force for democracy two years ago. The hopes of humanity centred in him. His failure to live up to his lofty principles and noble ideals has chilled the hearts of millions, who put their faith in him and almost worshipped him. They look sorrowfully on the moral lapse of America as the tragedy of history.”