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Show firCDME OF THE IH RESTS WITH BRITISH ALONE jn L- Garvin, Editor of Pall Mali Cn-ettc-. Exhorts Ex-horts His Countrymen to Rise to Occasion. Bi JOHN L -K 1 ww tt IBS Pall Mali Oarette I mx i sj so kd 1I''I. t rior? tin-1 tin-1 thifJih shs will still make a sii dasgw ' a settlement or 1 , jjjfgraofful foa.-e. No mow I alto r"1 oou' menaoe our own tu m x liai oi 'he world. at homo h. " ,.S 'lutoh !. i: lands to : .- axtfsj in ewrv shape rm, and Et ft pessibditv ot' a preoarioi Jl)acnt threatening the whole seeur MT aat future eiistenee. To work Ek mirtt and main against these loaUP is s a oest worth the en ,c ; ,e,v. fl--- ml womaa today. Uui a it MBttd finally, las! the.r ii -. - t was Kaj to : Bfe & profoundly mistaken an .. Ksi. Mast Have Initiative. HLaH.es cannot begin to win until fitfe they have got initial t'ullv faiifU otb' hands, and nothinsr will m Bi strong and continued imtia arp tc The allies except a very larpe Mat of the actual figbting T- mist therefore have at anr prir itjpj without delav ueh an orianiza tni is ib:-; -oontrv as shall ir.v IfrfTwn: mean. lfieitncy of dire-Ian dire-Ian -?t urgently required to siTt : t re of our own empire fte - ".ph at the : Bl var of the allies a a whole. EkVT raanot win clean ont. TV .'hief reason is the overwhelming odds agaiust her afloat. The command ot the sea was never o completely against Napoleon aa today it kfl against the German emperor. Kverv da broaden- the margin of our supremacy. Wej can prevent directly and indirectly the fn umph of (irrnian ambitions, and the Germans know it. We can find means in the last resort of creating an impregnable harrier in the east, eyen though the ttermaus by ill chance should reach Constantinople firt. though in that ease e houtd bt committed to a new and tremendous struggle. We could compel in the last resort the evacuation of Belgium by refusing to restore the life ot Hambnrg or to reopen anv sea of the world outside the Baltic, to the German flag. We could prevent the absolute crush-int crush-int of France. We and Japan Together could help sustain sus-tain the great defensive struggle of Russia Rus-sia until the Germanic powers were threatened trttli -.-iter e-chauFtlon. put all that alone would mean In the king run a drawn-out war. the relative impunity im-punity of the Oemmins. a dls-racf-d pea ae and a sinister and probably disastrous disas-trous future. Nnt the British Plan. That was not what Britain set out for in th glorious uprising of more than a rear ago. Not for that did the men of all p-UTtJca forget all that divided t!"eni and put thHr whole resources at the disposal of the government '. Not for tha- did the whole empire ral-P- to the flag" Not for that did make our vo-s wten Belgium was tramped and sacked! Not for a w ea k and shamef u I peace. beoieaThing pril and reproach Instead of honor and aafetv in the future, did we sign a pa' Wtth the allie never to siieatli the ;word until German aggref-sion aggref-sion was beaten down to the earth and the war creed of Prussian militarism e-tlrpated e-tlrpated forever. Efficiency Alone Can Win. Everything must be subordinated be-fore be-fore it Is too late, to that fullness of orranizatlon. efTi'-lencv. exertion and sacrifice sac-rifice which alone can bring us to see the fruit of our hopes. If ever, other factor that could be conceived con-ceived of w-re now added to the allies a a whole, nothing but the utmost conceivable con-ceivable effort of Britain could avail to end the war within anv tolerable period on terms that would achieve not only the final overthrow of Germany, but that glorloii. !a-tine peace purged of all vulgar vul-gar passion and made solemn by prayer and memory which alone can mean for us the t ri umph a nd ncom pense bo t h of the living and the dead! |