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Show WAR ADVANCES THE PEACE MOVEMENT i BOSTON, Dec. 23. Although he declared de-clared that the peace party had failfd in paying attention nioro to the judicial settlement of disputes than to the removal re-moval of occasions of disputes, Edwin D. Mead, chief director of tho World I'eace foundation, in his annual report to the trustees, issued today, asserted that tlie peace movement had been advanced, instead in-stead of beig retarded, by the European war. "We are now compelled to ask ourselves," our-selves," the report said, "whether 170-000, 170-000, OoO people, as in Russia, in a preeminently pre-eminently commercial age can permanently perma-nently or properly be denied access to tlie sea, and wheiher Germany's rapidly expanding population, already two-thirds of that of the United Slates, with Industry, Indus-try, commerce and national enterprise expanding even faster than population, can permanently or properly be confined in an area less than Texas. "The whole question of the limits and boundaries of nations, now so Illogical and accidental, of ihe reciprocal rights and relations of peoples, must be taken up by the world's statesmanship In a new and magnanimous way. with an eye to the common good, and to this end the peace party must contribute its Influence if it would do its part, as concerns the most critical point, to root out the causes of war." A warning against milMarv movements in this country wan Eounded in the report. |