Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-18

expected lO cause wider disagreement in American foreign policy than any other question raised in the country's history. Great Britain's answer was interpreted as her official acceptance and endorsement of the Presidents proposal
 Text of Note
 The text of MT. Balfours note, dated January 13 and addressed to Sir Cecil says in part:
 Tn sending you translation of the allied note I desire to make the fol lowing observations which you should bring to the notice of the United States government.
 q gather from the general tenor of the presidents note that while he is animated by an intense desire that peace should come soon and that when it comes it should be lasting, he does not for the moment at least, concern himself with the terms on which it should be arranged. His majesty's government entirely shares the pres ident's ideas; but they feel strongly that the durability of peace must largely depend on its character and no staple system of international re- lations can be built on foundations which are essentially and hopelessly defective.
 Consider Wars Cause
 This becomes clearly apparent if we consider the main conditions which rendered possible the calami ties from which the world is now sui fering. These were the existence of great powers consumed with the lust of domination in the midst of a com munity of nations ill-prepared for de- fense, plentifully supplied indeed, with international laws, but with no mach inery for enforcing them and weak ened by the fact that neither the boundaries of the various states nor their internal construction harmon ized with the aspirations of their con- tituent races or secured to them just and equal treatment.
 'Tha tthis last evil would be greatly mitigated if the allies secured the changes in the map of Europe out lined in their joint note is manifest, and I need not labor the point.
 To ExpeI Turkey
 Tt has been argued indeed that the expulsion of the Turks from Europe forms no proper or logical part of this general scheme. The mainte- nance of the Turkish empire was dur ing many generations regarded as es- sential to the maintenance of Euro pean peace. Why, it is asked, should the cause of peace be now associat- ed with a complete reversal of this traditional policy?
 'The answer is that circumstances have completely changed. It is un- necessary to consider now whether the creation of a reformed. Turkey mediating between hostile races in the near east was a scheme which, had the sultan been sincere and the powers united, could ever have been realized. It certainly cannot be real ized now.
 Germanized Turkey Bad
 The Turkey of Union and Prog ress' is at least as barbarous and is far more aggressive than the Turkey of Sultan Abdul Hamid. In the hand of Germany it has ceased even in ap- pearance to be a bulwark of peace and is openly used as an instrument of conquest Under German officers Turkish soldiers are now fighting in lands from which they had long been expelled and a Turkish government controlled, subsidized and supported by Germany has been. guilty of mas sacres in Armenia and Syria more horrible than any recorded in the his tory even of those unhappy countries. Evidently the interests of peace and the claims of nationality alike re- quire that Turkish rule over alien races, shall, if possible, be brought to an end; and we may hope that the expulsion of Turkey from Europe will contribute as much to the cause of peace as the restoration of Alsace- Lorraine to France or Irredenta to Italy or any of the other territorial changes indicated in the allied note Want Security in Peace
 Evidently. however, such territor- ial re-arrangements, though they may diminish the reasons of war. provide no sufficient security against its re- currence. If Germany or rather those in Germany who mould it's opinions and control it's destinies. again set out to domineer the world, they may find that by the new order of things the adventure is made more diff cult but hardly that it is made i'm possible. They may still have ready to their hands a perfect system or ganized through and through on military basis; they may still accu- mulate vast stores of military equip ment; they may still persist in their methods of attack, so their more pacific neighbors will be struck down before they can prepare themselves