Mr. Asquith, addressing his East Fife constituents at Ladybank on
February let, declared that our victory was certain, but that we must do our utmost" to accelerate its advent and ensure its vitality." The two chief requisites for the moment were the success of the 'Loan and the willing co-operation of all civilians in the effort to organize labour. Mr. Asquith said not a word about his resignation, but he indicated clearly that he and his colleagues had worked hard .at the problems which aro still unsolved. He spoke heartily of President Wilson's Peace Note of December as 'embodying a fine , ideal, such as Gladstone had indicated long ago he his phrase on " the enthronement of the idea of public right as the governing idea el European politica " and mech as he himself had outlined, notably in his Dublin speech of 1914. But Mr. Asquith added that there **Uhl he sib "peace withoutevietery." We were giving the blood of , eenr goinig men and our riches, not for the loge of fighting, but " to
reconstruct the wantonly broken fabric of public right and national independence," and to obtain " solid safeguards " against the breaking loose again of Prussian militarism.
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