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London press across all factions praises Premier Lloyd George's speech on British war aims, declaring it unifies the nation, clarifies objectives against German lies, and emphasizes unchanged goals for which Britain entered the war over three years ago.
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PRESS DECLARES PREMIER HAS DEALT KNOCK-OUT TO HIS CRITICS AT THE SAME TIME NAILS GERMAN LIES.
London, Jan. 7.—Every class and faction of the British press today joined in praise of Premier Lloyd George's Saturday speech.
The People comments as follows:
"It will no longer be possible for our present enemies to profess honest doubt as to what we are fighting for, or to delude any in that our aim is the destruction of intelligent German with the fable the disruption of the German state or its people."
The National News says:
"If there was ever any doubt about the things for which the manhood of our empire has been glorious in making a great sacrifice, such can no longer exist.
"The importance of the speech was greatly increased by the reason that it was delivered to the representatives of labor."
Sees World Democracy.
"That the Premier should have selected this democratic channel for his historic pronouncement is surely significant of his belief that the organized movement of democracy is the power which shall rule the world in the coming golden time."
The News of the World declares the speech outlined the British war aims "with a degree of precision which leaves no loophole for misunderstanding."
Aims Unchanged.
"These are the aims for which we entered the war," it adds. "For them we have bled unflinchingly more than three years, and for them, as the Premier well said, we are prepared to face even heavier sacrifices than we have yet endured."
The Sunday-Times says the most satisfactory phases of the speech and the most discomforting for the Prussian war lords, are those which reveal it as "not an utterance of either mere statesmen or a political party, but as the considered utterance of the British people."
The Weekly Dispatch asserts that it is a "courageous call for unity in the nation in the face of the trials and dangers that lie ahead, and is the best answer to the clamant, if unimportant, minority who have been endeavoring to drive a wedge between the government and the labor party on the false plea that there are unbridgeable integral difficulties in the respective conceptions of the war aims for which we are fighting."
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London
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Jan. 7.
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unifies the nation, deals knock-out to critics, nails german lies, clarifies war aims with precision, calls for unity against trials ahead.
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British press from every class and faction praises Premier Lloyd George's Saturday speech on war aims, delivered to labor representatives. It eliminates doubt about Britain's fighting objectives, refutes German fables of disruption, outlines aims unchanged since war entry over three years ago, and is seen as the utterance of the British people, significant for world democracy.