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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 13
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shall go on until this principle which I h a w called the Great Condition is securely established; that the power of autocracy shall be finally broken; that no government, or people, or nation, may, with impunity, aggrandize itself through the destruction of the liberties and rights and property of another government, or people, or nation. It is of the highest importance that we shall develop throughout the country a public spirit that will not yield on this point, but will insist on attaining our purpose; so that, if by any possibiltj darkdays come and weak-kneed people join in clamor to be relieved from the frightful strain of the war by a settlement which will not establish this principle, the people of America will sternly refuse and will push out of their way all who impede them in the attainment of this mighty purpose, and insist that our (Government shall stand for this Great Condition as the essential of lasting peace. "There must be no hugger-mugger peace. It must be a real peace Germany has waged three wars, and each time she has added through those wars to her strength, to her power, and each successive war she has waged has inevitably encouraged her on to the next. If she had had one check you would not have had this war. If this war succeeds in adding one square yard to her territory, of adding one cubit to her stature, of adding a single iota to her strength, it will simply raise their idea of militarism for which the world is being sacrificed at the present moment/' H O N . LLOYDE GEORGE
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