POST WAR POLICY

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13576, 3 September 1917, Page 5

POST WAR POLICY

THE ALLIES' ECONOMIC AIMS.

A NECESSARY lIK Ml i.N STRATI OX

THE UNPROFITABLENESS OF WAR

MILITARY FORCE .NoT KYKRYTIIIMi

LOR|» ROBERT CECIL'S VIEWS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Sept. 3, r>. 10 a.m.

LONDON, Sept. 2. Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of the Blockade, in an interview, said he did not consider that there was any inconsistency in Mr Wilson's Note and the Allies' policy. The Paris Economic Conference and the resolutions passed at it were purely defensive, aiming at the necessary restoration of the Allies' economic life after the war, protecting ourselves against any aggressive militarist and commercial policy the enemy may pursue after the war. Oermany's scheme for forcing her allies into a commercial league shows the real danger of such action. We consider economic considerations as vital as military measures during the war, and must foster our economic strength as much as that of our army or navy. We must rightly attack the enemy's economic strength with every legitimate weapon, accordingly we rejoice at America's vigorous export policy. One of the most potent weapons for impressing on the Hermans the folly and wickedness of their militarist leaders is to show that war is unprofitable. Even the 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. This state of things shows that military force is not everything. Even if German arms are successful, as the Kaiser boasts they have been, Germany's future is increasingly dark. It also possibly indicates a real solution of the, problem for preventing future wars, namely, the financial, commercial and economic isolation of the agressive Power by the proposed League of Nations.