PEACE PROPOSALS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15128, 24 January 1917, Page 3

PEACE PROPOSALS.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S latest:, ' SEVERELY CRITICISED. (Australian and N.Z- Cable Services.) NEW YORK, January 23. The New 1 York Times says: By one strokel the President removes many obstacles to peace guaranteed by the world. The proposal of the universal adoption of the Monroe Doctrine would mean a moral transformation. Will the Empires be content to stand still in their tracks? The proposal would bestow immense benefits on mankind. The alius: ion to peace without victory is a matter, of the ertremest delicacy. President Wilson, unconsciously or intentionally, records an eloquent protest against militarism. The President’s ideas of the , limitation of armaments would leave no national maritime supremacy. Mr Roosevelt'says it is ridiculous for President Wilson to talk of world peace when he is unable to enforce peace in Mexico. It is insincere for him to talk of righteousness when America is not prepared to take emphatic action, against Germany’s hideous outrages in Belgium., The New York Sun says: President Wilson’s administrative inefficiency failed to secure peace in Mexico, yet be mounts a rostrum whore it is not his business to be, and lectures to the world on terms of peace in Europe. President Wilson should have a more modest view of his responsibilities to mankind. The speech may well excite amazement and irritation mingled with amusement. The New York Herald says: If peace without victory means anything, it means that President Wilson favours peace made by Prussia. The German American Press praises the speech. 1 Republican leaders say the speech was ill-timed and utterly impossible of accomplishment. _____