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NO EUROPEAN PEACE-NOW.

s# The Presidents note to the British and German governments is q theorati-l
81 means pf saying what has already been said in Europe. Lloyd George has
told his people that there will be % conference-at the Hague = anywhere
else--lheefore the Kaiser has formulated the terms upon which he is willing to
n The British Premier went further than this. He exposed the terms upon
which the Allies are willing to make peace-and there re three points invov-
ed One complete restitution; two, complete reparaton; three, adequate
guarantees for the future. Russia and France had already saidsthls before
Lloyd George made his speech; and they said it more mphatcaly-especial
-Kusss, where the Gar, the Duma and the Council Of Empire spoke in identi
cal terms. @ $s @as s4I3d
All this may be readily translated into terms Of action. Complete resttu-l
tonpeans that Belgium goes back to the lBeGans that Serbia goes back .
the SYha, that Montenegro goes back to the Montenegrns, that Romanla goes
back tSASe Roumans, that Poland and Lithnania goes back TO the Russians
that the Balkan boundaries remain as they were traced by the treaty Of Bu-
charest. To this should be added a further restitution, the rightmg ofan an
Gent wrong; A1sace and Lorraine go back to France.
0 Complete reparats9ns means that Belgium is to be reconstructed at German
that devastated Serbia is to be reconstructed, that ovenidden MONTENEGRO is
e Be restored Is tie Petrovtches, that the money wrung from Belgium by her
German onquerorsi SIS to be paid back. and that evelya ionement which is ~ e
terialy possible Is to BE made to the suffering peoples whose right to autono-
NY ahdto neutrality has been beaten down. S@
NE Adequate guarantees for the future means that German disarmament is a
condition rsseedent to even . discussion Of peace, that something more than q
MANY. cannot accept these terms now. The Allies cannot take less -now.
And there can be no peace-.now.
# Furthermore, the Pact of London forbds a separate peace on tn part Of
any Of the Allies. Germany has tried before to break this pact She made
q very definite offer Of peace to France q year ago, limiting at the restoration;
of Alsaces-L 6rrine and the evacuation of Belgium except for Antwerp
France rejected those terms, a she has now rejected the more nebulous terms
Of 1s16.
No peack can be made without Rusda;and Russia cannot make peace on
German eaams. Russia is the only great empire in the world which has no
open winddw on the sea- which she must have in order to develop her enor-
-nabsAaat1 Untouched agricultural and other natural resources. German
terms would bax Russia from both the Baltic and the Mediterranean. The
Entente terms viii ultimately give her the Dardannenes. And Russia, in man
:powerand i'll capatty to- command ii, holds the whiphand in the controversy.
There is . new Prime Minister in England, the French Premier has been
granted new and afider powers new Minister for Foreign Affairs serves the
Gar AllthreeD4 these men have spoken for their imperial and their popular
masters. TheirSwAfds range all within the same octave. There will be no
peace formulated inNRerin as the seat Of victory in this war.
Consequently, nehA4r the hysteria: of the stock market nr the rhetoric Of
the President 81 thougAkub by diplomats, by military experts Or by students Of
world history; 10 reflect anything which looks to an ending Of the European
war within eghteen months at the earliest.