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Show ONLY A LASTING PEACE DESIRED (New York Times ) It is only when we descry a tendency tenden-cy in 6ome quarters to ask for peace regardless of its price and regardless of its consequences that we can hesi tate. It is one of the evils of peace fanaticism that It tends to lose sight of large factors and can see only the immediate horrors and pain and suffering. Heaven knows these are terrible enough. To us, three thousand thou-sand miles away, they come with sickening reiteration It scarcely needs the newspapers of Paris and London and Berlin to assure us that no blood lust or mad enthusiasm drives the peoples of Europe to send their youth out to their death and maiming. Stern resolve, a devoted faith in each nation's cause, stands behind each battle line. The greatest great-est war of Europe is furnishing added add-ed proof of Mr. Norman Angelic contention con-tention that war is usually entered into not from base and Ignoble motives, mo-tives, but rather with a spirit of exalted patriotism and self-sacrifice. Therefore, to ignore those motives and tho6o national aims and to attempt at-tempt to obtain peace by a blind compromise com-promise is to ignore the most significant sig-nificant of factB. It is damming Niagara Ni-agara with kind words. In the first place, it cannot be done, aB the intimation inti-mation of British sentiment conveyed to Ambassador Page and thence to Secretary Bryan makes plain. In the second place, if It conceivably could be done, the peace resulting would bo a false peace, of no lasting value and certain to involve the world in fresh hostilities before a generation had passed. n |