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Show PEACE IMPOSSIBLE AT PRESENT MOMENT COXDOX, May 2". The Morning Post, which devotes its daily editorial lo "President "Presi-dent Wilson's Nor I h Carolina speech, says: "The president gave utterance again to his deep-seated ambition to plav peacemaker peace-maker in a war-distracted world." The Post urges that all sn'Mi peace talk is out. of place at the present time. "T he concept ion." says tlie Post, "is, no douht, an exalted one, but is baser oii the illusion that a compromise is always possible between two belligerents. -There are some antagonisms which, in' their na-mre, na-mre, are irrecon.-iiahle, and this is a war in whih there can be no compromise i without invoking disaster as great as de-llfeal de-llfeal itself: ' 1 "Wlia t would Lincoln have said in the midst of his implacable struggle if some we-intentioned friend had stepped in to urge compromise and concilia t ion n The people of this country believe ' they must win or perish, and they are determined, deter-mined, at any cost, to win." |