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Show I British Leader ! Of Labor Likes Wilson's Stand By Associated Press." LONDON, Oct. 26. Arthur Ar-thur Henderson, leader of the Labor party in the house of commons, said today to-day that his first impression of President Wilson's note to Germany was that it would assist very materially in clarifying the situation. ! It to .of the.. highest, impor-, I I tance that the German people peo-ple should be encouraged to '! look, not for a temporary ,j cessation of hostilities, but j I for a permanent discrediting j and destruction of the mill- j tary and arbitrary system that lias involved them and j nearly the whole world in i unprecedented suffering and ' loss of life, he said. "If the German people are i honestly seekinrpeacerihey j should do all in their power j to provide such- effective i safeguards and conititu-I conititu-I tional guarantees for the fu-I fu-I ture world peace that no ! section of their population would be ia a position, if so I disposed, to influence a resumption re-sumption of military effort. As President Wilson has i clearly shown, the best safe-) safe-) guard against a future war i is the reduction at least to virtual impotency of all the j forces upon which rests the direct responsibility for the horrors of the present strug- |