wHAT does peace mean? Does it mean
merely that the guns have ceased to
speak and nations no longer devote all
their powers to human slaughter? It
means that, but does it mean only that?
If peace means only that and if peace is the thing
supremely to be desired, then the United States and
her Allies should immediately stop short. Peace can
be had—that kind of peace—almost in a moment.
That sort of peace could have been secured by any one
of the Allied Nations any time since July, 1914.
Russia seeks it now.