AFTER THE WAR
Evans, Elizabeth Glendower
After the War By ELIZABETH GLENDOWER EVANS ALL the English-speaking world apparently is reading Bernhardi. And all of said world is cheerfully anticipating that if Germany is worsted in the...
...And all of said world is cheerfully anticipating that if Germany is worsted in the present war, "militarism" will have received a quictus...
...The sponsors of this movement are J. Ramsay MacDonald, Charles Trevelyan, Norman Angell, E. D. Morel, Arthur Ponsonby, with headquarters at 14 Great College Street, Westminster...
...It is to be devoutly hoped that these anticipations will come true...
...Said Lord Roberts at a "National Service" meeting held at Manchester in 1912,—to quote a recent Labor Leader: "Germany strikes when Germany's hour has struck...
...It is cheering to learn that there are those in England who are alive to this double danger threatening civilization...
...Enlightened opinion the world over should range itself on the side of these far-sighted champions of a better world order...
...It has been her policy at the present hour...
...It is, or should he, the policy of every nation prepared to play a great part in history...
...It seems then that to conquer "militarism" it is not enough that the allies should win...
...That is the time-honoured policy of her Foreign Office...
...Already a union of Democratic Control is in process of formation, to the end of securing terms in the settlement of the war which shall prepare the way for a "stable peace...
...2) No treaty, arrangement, or undertaking shall be entered upon in the name of Great Britain without the sanction of Parliament...
...4) Great Britain shaft propose as paft of the peace settlement a plan for the drastic reduction of armaments by the consent of all the belligerent Powers, and to facilitate that policy shall attempt to secure the general nationalism of the manufacture of armaments and the prohibition of the export of armaments by one country to another...
...As essential conditions, the leaders of the organization postulate: "(1) No province shall be transferred from one Government to another without the consent by plebiscite of the population of such province...
...If this war is not to pave the way to fresh wars, militarism must be defeated in England as well as in Germany...
...Civilization, which is threatened to the front by the Bernhardi-led hosts, is threatened in the rear by the same seed of death, embodied in some of those whom England delights to honor...
...That was the policy relentlessly pursued by Bismarck and Moltke in 1866 and 1870...
...But unhappily, advocates of Bernhardi's anti-social code are not confined to the ruling class of Germany...
...Adequate machinery for ensuring democratic control of foreign policy shall be created...
...3) The foreign policy of Great Britain shall not be aimed at creating alliances for the purpose of maintaining the "balance of power," but shall be directed to the establishment of a Concert of Europe, whose deliberations and decisions shall be public...
...And, gentlemen, it is an excellent policy...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
