President Wilson, speaking in North Carolina last Saturday, referred to
the possibility of mediation in the war :-
" Lots," he said, " would like to think that the spirit of this occasion [the hundred and forty-first anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declara- tion of Independence] could be expressed if we imagined ourselves lifting some sacred emblem of counsel and of peace, of accommodative and righteous judgment, before the nations of the world, and reminding them of a passage of Scripture—After the wind, after the earthquake, after the fire, the still small voice of humanity."
Mr. Wilson proceeded to hint that the war was a deadlock. " When you cannot overcome you must take counsel." The comment of most American newspapers is that the Allies by no means admit a deadlock ; and, indeed, Mr. Wilson himself adthitted a few days ago that Germany's apparent desire for peace was not shared by the Allies, who feel that the evil of German militarism has yet to be purged away.
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