Arizona republican., 1916-04-08
LORD ROBERT CECIL REPUESTO
 SPEECHO OF DR. vON BETHMAI|N- -H0LLWEG
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Hollweg, the German imperial chan cellOr Conversing with American l correspondents on behalf of the for | eign office, Lord Robert said the | suggestion that Germany might aban- don her submarine warfare if Great Britain relaxed her food blockade was hardly likely to be entertained by Great Britain, which had no faith that any promise made by Germany regarding submarine warfare would be kept.
 Germany slackened her submarine warfare for some time when the op erations of the British navy deprived her of the necessary number of sub marines" said Lord Robert, but has now begun it again. l am convinced that Germany cannot be trusted to keep any promise
 Reviewing the address of Dr. von Bethmann- Hollweg, Lord Robert said: The chancellor's speech covers much of old ground. As usual he claims that the allies have no legal right to blockade Germany, and ap- pears to think the neutrals are of the same opinion. Yet among all the neutral governments who ave pro- tested against our eXactiOn. none has been found to argue that the blockade is in itself illegal precisely in the proportion in which it is effective. | That is Germanys contention. Germany has openly proclaimed her intention of blockading this country and has done her best to do so. We
 
 cause it is ineffective.'
 Referring to Dr. Von Bethmann- Hollwek's statement that Great Bri- tain alone is responsible for the con- tinuatiOn of the war and that he made proposals last September to which he has received no reply, Lord Robert said:
 Tt may be well to make a clear answer to this. By singling out sep arate powers among the allies, the chancellor endeavors to SOW mischief and distrust among them, but he has failed. The allies stand together and have pledged themselves to make peace in common. The chancellor knows this well. He knows. too. and the people of Germany whom he de- i ludes should know, that nothing in any public speech he makes can ever i form the basis of peace overtures.
 These periodical speeches in the reichstag are cunning blends of bom bast and peaceful protestations Through them all runs the deliberate design to nOurish German hatred of England above all her allies, to bol- ster the fictition that the German government is fighting a defensive war, and to forestall and prevent that which the German government most fears-a popular demand in Germany for peace. Never can the allies dignify this attitude by taking it as an overture. The chancellor made his so-called proposals last year solely that he might be able to refer to them virtuously today" Lord Robert recalled Dr. von Bethemann- Hollweg's words of De- cember g:
 None of our enemies has ap- preached with peace proposals, and they believe it to be in their interest falsely to attribute peace proposals to us,'' and the chancellors state
  peace conditions he must forsee the conditions of Germany's enemies.
 Tt is clear" Lord Robert continued. that the Germans themselves did not make any proposals, in spite of what the chancellor now pretends. Even if he were sincere, and in the precise proportion as we believe him sincere, we reject with indignation and con- tempt the basis of peace he ffers.
 The chancellor invokes the prin ciple of nationality in Poland and Belgium. There are two principles of nationality One proclaims the simple right of each man to free self government and association with his fellows, and looks to the exercise of that right through the establish ment and steady development of dem ocratic government within each cOun try"
 "The other summons all the pro- fessors from all the universities, covers it's political designs in a cloud of eth nological theories, sends out it's secret service agents to foment instruction and stimulate blOodshed and, in due course, reaps the rewards of it's efforts in the establishment of rigid tyranny, fringed by a buffer borderland of an archy.
 "The first principle is the endeavor of the country. the second is the am- bition of Germany. We know it of old. We encountered it in Napeoleon, and it was Canning who fought hypocrit ical nationalisms to death and who af terward in the name of true liberty, called in the new world to redress the balance of the old
 "So Germany and Austria are to solve the problem of Poland A truly comfortable prospect for the Poles. If Germany wants Suwalki there will be no dearth of German professors to prove that it is Lithuanian and not Polish Poland is to be free, but not for the Poles, for their country is re- served for the nob.e function of a buffer between Germany and Russia delicately -colonized by Germans.
 And Belgium. There is to be a new Belgium. Listen to the chancellor, setting the oppressed Flemish free by oratory. after they for months have re- fused to be set free by the mild rule of the German Kommandators in Belgium, or to swallow the precious Flemish uni versity, which the German government has tried to force down their threats.
 ''To such peace proposals there is only one answer. We refuse. We are fighting for the old Belgium. That which has been broken shall be re- stored, and with the nation and gov ernment who broke it we shall never have peace so long as they have the