Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-20
GERMANY MUST
GIVE HER TERMS
Allies, Thru Lloyd-George, Re
ject Proposal as Submitted
by Holiweg.
PREMIER STATES POSITION
Restitution, Reparation and
Guarantee for Future
Must Be Had, He Says.

The offer Of Germany and her al |
lies to discuss peace will amount to
namght unless they submit To the
entente allies their tcrms--and these
must embrace nothing short of com
plctc restitution. full rcparation ana
cffcctual guarantees for peace In the
future"
Failure by the Tcutonic allies To
ci,c such u peace as il required will
mean the utmost prosecution OF the
war.
David Lloyd George. the new Brit
ish prime minister, has 80 told the
house Of commons while In the house
OF lords his words were rc-cchocd by
Earl Curzon of KcdicstOn. mcmbc. OF
the prime minister's war council.
Almost simultaneously with the an
nounccmcnt In the British parliament
the French chamber of deputies was
told by Premier BRAND that the en-
tcntc allies would send concerted
reply to the TcutOnic allies that II was
..impossibIc To take their request for
pcacc seriously" while the Russian
council of the empire adopted an order
OF the day unanimously refusing to
enter under present conditions INTO
any peace negotiations with Germany.
Rising in the house Of commons
few minutes after O'Clock the prime
minister said:
81 appear before the house of com
mons today with the most terrlple
In t,uf on ~ fnl
shoulders OF any living man as chief
adviser of the crown, in the most
gigantic war in which this country was
ever engaged, war upon which the
events OF its destiny depends. 1t IS
the greatest war ever Waged; the
burdens are the heaviest that nave
been cast upon this or any other coun-
try and the issues the gravest that
have been attached to any conflict in
which humanity was ever involved.
The responsibilities of the new
government have been suddenly ac-
centuated by the declaration made by
the German chancellor The state
ment made by him in the reichstag
has been followed by a note presented
by the United States without note or
comment. The answer given BY this
government will be given in full ac-
cord with all our allies.
Naturally there has been an IN
terchange of views, not upon the note,
because it is only recently arrived, nut
upon the speech which impelled IL ana
as the note itself is practically only a
reproduction or paraphrase or tne
specch. the subject matter OF the mote
itself has been discussed informally
between the allies. | am glad to be
able to state that we each separately
and independently arrived at identica
conclusions
praises France and Russia.
"I am very glad that the firs'
answer given to the statement oil Inc
German chancellor was gwen pS
France and Russia. They have the
1Inauestionable right to give the frs
answer to such an institution. In'
enemy is still on their soil and theil
sacrifices have been the greater.
The answer they have given ma!
already appeared In the papers, ana
simply stand here to give clear ah'
definite support to me statement tie!
have already made
"Any man or set of men who wan
tonly or without sufficient cause pro
long a terrible war like TINS Woui'
have on his sonl crime that oceans
could not cleanse.
"On the other hand, 1t is equal,
true that any man or set of men WIT
from a sense of WEAKNESS or despai
abandoned the struggle wthou
achieving the high purposes 10
which we entered it. would be quit
of the costliest act of poltroonery eve
perpetrated by any statesman
should like to quote the words
Abraham Lincoln under similar con
ditions; We accepted this war 10
an object and a world object and tn
war will end when the object is at
tanned under God | hope it will neve
end until that time
Arc No Proposals.
"Are we likely to achieve the oh
iect by accepting the invitation of IN
German chancellor? What are tn
proposals? There are none
"'To enter on the invitation of Ge
many proclaiming herself victoriou
without any knowledge of what pre-
nosals she proposes to make, into
conference is to put our heads into
moose with the rope end in the hano
of Germany.
,This country Is not altogether will
out experience In these matters Tn
= is not the first time we have fought
great military depotism overshadoV
ing Europe and it won't be the mr.
time we have helped to overthrow
u,iiitorv depotism We have uncon
fortable historical memories of the'
things and can recall one of the Srea
ost of these despots, whose faVorl
device was to appear In the aarb
an angel of peace, either Wheh
wished time to assimilnte MS COZ
Guests or to reorganize his forces f
fresh conquests, or secondly when h
subjects showed symptoms OF fatig'
and war wearincss, an appeal was a
ways made in the name OF humanll
He demanded an end to the nioo
shed at which he professed himse
Mortified, altho he himself was man
responsible.
Engiand's Experience.
"Our ancestors were taken In on
and bitterly they and Europe rued
THE time was spent in reorganizing !
forces for Il deadlier attack on =
liberty of Europe.
"a few examples Of this kind c&c