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Show 8EE8 BRIGHTER DAY UNDER RELIEF FROM GERMAN MILITARISM London, Sept. 5 In- a letter which was read at a meeting ot his constituents constit-uents in Berwick last night, Sir Edward Ed-ward Grey, minister of foreign at fairs, made tho following report on tho war situation: "When our sincere and strenuous efforts to prevent a European war failed, we would gladly have stood aside had it been possible but wo were bound to make the observation of Belgian neutrality, one ot the conditions con-ditions of our own neutrality. Th(t German government asked us to waive that condition and condone the, violation of a solemn treaty. There could be but one honorable answer to such a roquest. Had wo sat still, and ignored Belgium's appeal wo should indeed have been detested b our. friends and despised by our enemies. ene-mies. "Tho progress of tho wnr has ro-vcaled ro-vcaled what a terrible Immoral thing thn German militarism that we must light. The whole of western Europe would fall under it If 'Germany should be' successful ln this war, but If, as a result of the war, the independence and Integrity ot the smaller European states can be secured and western Europe liberated from the menace of German .militarism and, the German people itself freed from that militarism militar-ism for it is not the German people, but Prussian militarism which has driven Oermany and Europe Into wRY it that militarism can be overcome, then Indeed therewlll be a brighter freer' day for Europe which will compensate com-pensate us for the awful sacrifices which war entails." ' |
