White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-16
..Internafional Problems Must BE
Handled by Free Negotiations"

Handled by Free Negotiations
On the occasion of a government
reception to visiting French Senators
and deputies at Lancaster House
London, on Tuesday, Premier Asquith
took the opportunity to reply to the
speech recently delivered in the
~reichstag by the imperial German
chancellor. Dr.. Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg.
Those present included Earl Kitch-
ener. the Marquis of L~andsdowne,
Sir Edward Grey. j. Austen Cham
b~erlain. Sir Walter Runeiman. Lewis
Harcourt. Yiscount Bryce. A. J. Bal
four and Lord Robert Cecil. The
premier in proposing the toast Our
guests referred to Won Bethmann-
Holwegg's claim TO readiness on the
part of Germany to negotiate peace,
and said:
1.-THE German chancellor wants US
to assume the attitude of a defeated
" a Nl1lOl iOuo aafCi ooA 1aN ~
are not defeated; We are not going to
be defeated"
Reiterating that the entente allies
were prepared only for peace on the
terms of his declaration of November
1914, Mr.. Asquith proceeded:
1.-The chancellor first misquotes my
lanouapa then nrooaedc IN disfort its
obvious meaning and intention. Great
Britain and France entered the war
not to strange Germany or wipe her
off the map of Europe; not to de-
stroy or mutilate her national life;
certainly not to interfere with, to
use the chancellor's language. the
free exercise of her peaceful enGea-
vors.
"As a result of the war We intend
TO establish the principle that inter-
national problems must be handled
by free negotiations on equal terms
between free peoples and this settle
ment shall no longer be h~ampered or
swayed by the oyermastering dicta-
ton of a government controlled by a
military caste. That is what I mean
by the destruction of the military
domination of Prussia - nothing
more. but nothing less"
Referring to the fate of Serbia and
Montenegro following a similar fate
suffered by Belgium, the premier
said:
I'VE are in this struggle the cham
pions not only of treaty rights, but of
the Independent status and free de- t
of weaker countries. In l
the circumstances, cynicism could
go further than in the chan
powers-to insist, when peace
comes, upon giving various races a !
for free evolution along the !.
lines of their mother tongue and ma l
iional individuality Apparently l
his principle is to be applied, | sup [
pose, on approved Prussian lines both
in Poland and Belgium" |
Contending that the Poles have had
Illuminating experience of the Ger
man ideas of free evolution of this
kind, Mr.. Asquith continued:
The attempt to Germanize Poland
has been for the last twenty years
once the strenuous purpose and
colossal failure of Prussian domestic
policy. Nobody knews this better
than the chancellor, for he has been
one of its principal instruments.
THE chancellor says that after the
war there must be a new Belgium.
which must not be a Franco-English
~vassal, but between whose people and
the Germans, who burned their
churches, pillaged their towns,
trampled their liberty, there is to be
in the future the collaboration OF
neighbors.'
my answer Is a very simple one.
The allies desire and are determined
to see once again the old Belgium.
She must not be allowed to suffer per-