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Show LORD ROSEBERY ML'CH GRIEVED' Sees the United States Beginning Begin-ning a Great Armament for the Future. London, Nor. 16, 11.10 p. m. "I know nothing more disheartening than the announcement recently made that tho United States the one great country left in tho wotld free from tho hideous, hloddy burden of war is about to embark upon the building of a huge armada destined to be equal or second to our own," said Lord Rooe-bery, Rooe-bery, presiding at the Rhodes lecture in the University of London tonight. "It means," he added "that the burden bur-den will continue upon tho other nations na-tions and bo increased exactly in proportion pro-portion to the fleet of the United States. I confess that it is a disheartening dis-heartening prospect that the United States, so romote from tho European conflict, should voluntarily in these days take up the burden, which aftor this war, will be found to havo broken, brok-en, or almost broken our backs." Old Europe, said Lord 'Roscbery, was disappearing never to return to its present shape. On the conclusion of the war the form it would assume, he thought, would be unlike anything with which the world had grown familiar. fa-miliar. One obvious aspect of this transition was that in the future it would be quito impossible to make treaty arrangements betweon the great powers without first obtaining some likely guarantee of their observance ob-servance The signature of Germany to a document doc-ument of any kind, he said, would havo little value, within nny measurable measur-able time that could now be contemplated. contem-plated. It was likewise true that this observance would have to be generally general-ly applied beyond Gennany, because no nation would feel Itself safe which obtained the price of peace on anything any-thing but some material guaiantee of its own This ultimately meant force. |
