Arizona republican., 1916-12-24
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 WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Informa- ton as to the exact meaning in seeking a just and permanent peace" is the whole purpose of the note addressed to all belligerents by President Wilson The United States desires a full, prac- tical and detailed statement from each of the governments addressed. This outline and what follows was stated of- ficially today for the administration.
 This official said the government does not know and feels that it has been given no real means of knowing what terms would be required by each of the belligerents to make peace It regards the recent speeches Of the leading statesmen in all countries as vague and undefined and sees nothing in them that would enable conference to draw up treaty. All speak of the rights of small nations, the repugnance of conquest and the guarantees Of a permanent peace. but no one nation has yet gone into what it means by those phrases in a way that the government of the United States can understand
 Recent press comment has beer taken to enhance that vagueness France, for instance, has not disclosed if what she considers a just peace means the evacuation of her northern province or in addition to that the res toration of AlSace- Lorraine, or if IL addition to both those claims she eX- pects~a money indemnity for the dam age of invasion, or beyond that if she has an actual program for doing aWss with so-called German militarism. l. short, the United States asks what would she accept today as the basis o. peace.
 Similar issues apply to all the be4A- gerent countries in merely a vary. .-l- form. What President Wilson wants l. their details. As the largest neutr4 facing grave problems, and as tnc friend of all parties concerned, the United States feels most earnestly the it is entitled to know those facts. Uu- less some one of the groups lays down it's actual terms there will be no basis for negotiation and no possibility of peace till the world is bled white, off cials declare.
 There, is not the slightest eXpelta i... here that the terms laid down W.I be reconcilable at first. 1t is known lhat some of the nations will demand Nhat in actuality they compose. NeVerj he- less, the naming of those terms Vii ii- ford a basis of negotiations, a staTtiu- nlace from which the conflicting inter ests can begin to converge.
 Nor is any embarrassment seeu tu. any of the nations in naming slel terms. It is understood in advance tho they are apt to fluctuate with the mil italy changes and are not permanelilN binding under new conditions. What ever any nation feels, must be included in it's terms for moral reasons. can al so be added to the terms without em- barrassment, it is said.
 As to permanent guarantees it wa officially declared that the Unite' States stands ready to enter any kila of international agreement that may seem most desirable to the nations, whether permanent peace is to be se- cure bv force. if necessary, or by law. The country is not committed to any one plan and President Wilson is en- tirely open to suggestions.
 It is the administrators view that the country can be committed to an abandonment of the policy of isolation much as President Monroe committed it to the Monroe doctrine without sen ate action In the plans so far contem- plared, however, it is probable the na tions would be bound by treaty agree ments which would necessarily have to be ratified by the senate, so far as the United States is concerned. A fuller understanding of the em- Dd1TdSS1D6ll caused 10 the aQnlnlS- tragion by the coincidence of it's note with the German proposals was given today when it was learned that, despite the early unfavorable effect which the note was expected to have in the allied countries through that fact, it was de- cided to risk it in view of the great in terests involved. It is expected it may be some time before the American viewpoint will be accepted abroad, but it is felt that in the end it certainly will prevail.
 It also is stated most emphatically that the note was not rushed off on Monday in order to get to Premier Lloyd George before he had irrevoca- ply committed the allies against peace
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