Sir Edward Carson issued to the papers of Friday week
a notable letter deprecating the " very loose and mischievous talk about peace," and the foolish notions that "we have only to conclude a treaty of peace with Germany and all will be well." There was a league of nations to protect Belgium, and there were Hague Con- ventions, but they have all been violated by Germany, and the Pacificists do not and cannot show how these calamities are to be prevented from recurring if the Germans remain unrepentant and powerful. "President Wilson is right when he declares that no terms signed by the present rulers of Germany would aff wd the slightest security for the peace of the world, and nothing is more certain than that, just in proportion as the military defeat of Germany is incomplete, the duration of peace will be short." If there is to be no "next time," German military power must be crushed, and the German people must be no longer " deluded by the legend of their invincibility in arms." Any man who tries to slop the war at an earlier stage is " the worst enemy of a real peace."
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