The Wanganui Herald. [THE PUBLISHED DAILY.] THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1910. THE WORLD’S PEACE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13058, 28 April 1910, Page 4

The Wanganui Herald. [THE PUBLISHED DAILY.] THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1910. THE WORLD’S PEACE.

A.mid all the wars and rumours of wars, the pushing on of military preparations, the frenzied building- of Dreadnoughts and super-Dreadnoughts, and the. general creation of. bloated armaments, there yet Teems to be a rift in the clouds, and some hope of more sensible counsels prevailing. These matters depend loss on the people than on the Governments. In Britain the Liberals are in office, and they, are less anxious for the shedding of blood and the spending of treasure than the Tories. The result of tlie French elections gives hope that a similar spirit will, ere long, obtain in France. As everyone knows, the Socialist party is everywhere strenuously opposed to war, and when, we find that the elections In France have- so far resulted in the return of 15 Radical Socialists, and 83 straight-out ditto, or a total of 237 against Anly 108 belonging to other parties, there :eems a more than possible chance of La Belle Repnbliqno joining hands with Britain. in the movement for the reduction of irmaments. Germany, of course, is the ' oil on civilisation’s skin. There his Taisership Wilhelm directs the foreign ;olicy; the people have absolutely no say hr it, and the monarch’s whim may at any noment plunge them in a war they wholly lisapprove of. And the Kaiser takes care to see that the war party is the dominant me in Germany’s counsels. But the German people are getting sick of it. A cable published on Tuesday stated that the German people were revolting against the rule >f the aristocracy, and that a new era in Herman, politics lias arrived. The Liberal Democrats arc beginning to take the ofensive which, it it mean anything at all, neans that the beginning of the end is in iglit so far as Germany’s criminally aggressive policy is concerned. It only wants he people of these three countries—Briaiii, France, and Germany—to combine in gnoring the war loving aristocracy, and n shaping their own destinies, and the ■est of the white world must perforce folbw suit. The rising Asiatic nations will emain to be, dealt with, but the white unions, their mutual rivalries, ended, should > more than a, match for the Asiatic.'