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Show l4 M H J, MR; ASQUITH'S "PEACE TERMS" To various leaders in each, of the Allied Al-lied countries may be ascribed the delivery deli-very of a particularly apt. and.memorable definition of Allied war aims., .Probably Mr. Wilson has been more often quoted in this connection than any othei' states man, because for more than a year past he has been in a sense regarded as the spokesman of all the allies. But Mr. Lloyd George has also numei'ous striking utterances on the subject to his credit, and so has M. Clemenceau, as well as his predecessors in the premiership of Prance. As a specimen of concise and eloquent el-oquent statement, however nothing has vet been delivered that surpasses the following fol-lowing dictum from a speech by Mr. As-quith, As-quith, leader of the Liberal party in Great Britain: We shall never sheathe the sword until Belgium recovers in full measure meas-ure all, and .more than all, that she has sacrificed; until France is adequately ade-quately secured against the menace of aggression; until the rights" of the ' smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassaiable foundation; founda-tion; and until the military domination domina-tion of Prussia is wholly and finally final-ly destroyed." ' ' When Jt is remembered that the speach from which this declaration is quoted was delivered in the very first month of the war, it will have to be admitted that the distinguished British statesman foresaw fore-saw the end from the beginning, with most remarkable accuracy and clearness and framed his forecast in a phrase that has not been uttered nor in fact very greatly altered during the four- fearful, blazing, purifying years. "The Utterance represented then, as it does still today, the soul and substance' of the Allied cause. Deseret News. |