FOR LIBERTY AND PEACE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15131, 27 January 1917, Page 9

FOR LIBERTY AND PEACE.

. PRUSSIAN MILITARISM TO BE CRUSHED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received January 27, 2.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, January 26. Senator Root during the course of his speech said:— “I am grateful with all my heart to the Allied soldiers, who are fighting for liberty and peace. My children’s children and our liberty and security depend on the destruction and abandonment of the stated principle of national aggrandisement and immorality.” Senator Root added that he approved of President Wilson’s speech because he interpreted it as implying the crushing of Prussian militarism. If the Germans 1 principles were victorious American freedom would surely die in this generation.