Evening journal., 1916-12-23
/. No aMADE-TN.GFRMANY- PEACE.

THE Presidents note the British and German
i governments is a rhetorical means Of saying what
has already been said IN Europe. Lloyd George has
told his people that there will be no conference-at
the Hague or anywhere else-before the Kaiser has
formulated the terms upon which he is willing to make
peace.
The British Premier went further than this He
posed the terms upon which the Allies willing to
make peace-and there three points involved. One,
complete restitution; two complete reparation three
adequate guarantees the future Russia and France
had already said this before Lloyd George made his
speech and they said 1t more emphatically-espec-
tally Russia when the Gar the Duma and the Council
OF Empire spoke in identical terms.
All this may be readily translated into terms or ac-
ton Complete restitution means that Belgium goes
back to the Belgians that Serbia goes back TO the
Serbs that Montenegro goes back to the Montenegrns
that Rouana go back 10 the Roumanans that Poland
and Ihuania 20 back to the Russians that the Balkan
boundaries remain as they traced by the Treaty
OF Bucharest - this should be added further resti
tuition. the righting OF ancient wrong: Asace and
Lorraine go back to France
Complete reparation means that Belgium is to be
reconstructed at German that Northern France
Is similarly TO set in order II in 1914 that
devastated Serbia is 10 be reconstructed that overrd
den Montenegro is TO be restored to the Petrovches
that the money wrung from Belgium by her German
conuuerors is to be paid back and that every atone
ment which materially possible is TO be made to the
suffering peoples whose right to autonomy and 70 neu
tralty has been beaten down
Adequate guarantees for the future mean that Ger
man disarmament is a condition precedent to even
discussion OF peace, that something more than "a
scrap OF PAPER must be safeguard the days that
are 10 come Germany cannot accept these terms
now. The Allies cannot take less-now And there
can be no peace-now
Furthermore the Pact OF London forbids separate
peace on fhe part Of any OF the Allies Germany has
tried before to break this pact She made very def
mite offer Of peace to France year ago. limiting at
the restoration OF Asace-Lorrane and the evacuation
n, rleium except for Antwerp. France rejected those
terms as she has now rejected the moro nebuous
terms of 1916.
No peace can be made without Russia and Russia
cannot make peace German terms. Russia is the
only great empire in the world which has no open
dow on the sea- which she must have in order TO de-
velop her enormous and untouched agricultural and
other natural resources German terms would bar
Russia from both the Baltic and the Mediterranean.
The Entente terms Will intimately give her the OAR
danees. And Russia, in man power and in capacity
command t. holds tho whip-hand in the controversy.
There is a Prime Minister in England. the French
Premier has been granted and wider powers a
Minister for Foreign Affairs serves the Gear. All
three OF these have spoken for their imperial and
their popular masters Their words range all within
the same octave There will be no peace formulated in
Berlin as the seat OF victory in this war
Consequently neither the bysteria OF the stock
ket nor the rhetoric OF the President is thought by
diplomats by military experts by students OF world
history. to reflect anything to indicate anything
which looks to an ending Of the European within
/ eighteen months at the earliest.