Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-08
Foreign Minister Says No Con-
quest Is Intended but Map
of Europe Must Be Prop
erly Readjusted.
DARDANELLES TO BE
PROPERTY OF SLAVS|
Sultan Cannot Be Allowed to
Rule Armenia; Austria Must
Give Up Much to Italy and
Rumania.
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Icy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRgl
Petrograd, April (via London
i:40 p. m)--"I was always of the
opinion that the United States would
take part in the war on the side OF
the allies" said Prof. Paul N. Milu-
koff, minister of foreign affairs in
the new government, today.
"The definitinn ~ r,~os aaep.sFv1.
son Of the purposes of the war" con
tinued Professor Mflukoff, GORE
spends entirely with declarations of
the statesmen of the allied powers.
No Usurpation Intended.
None of the allies INDUCES in aims
of usurpation. We all desire that the
territories wrecked by force shall be
restored and that frontiers shall be
established definitely in accordance
with nationality. In other words, the
entente powers will be able to con-
slider their victory complete only
when they have attained the funda-
mental conditions of the president s
program--the transformation of the
map of Europe, especially to the
southeast, upon lines which will in
sure durable peace and eliminate
every preteXt for new conflicts. We
tions If by annexations we mean
usurpation. With this important res
ervation, the words peace without
annexations' represent the formula
suggested to the allies by the German
social democrats.
No Status Ante Possible.
"A stalemate peace, a peace based
upon the status quo, all these formu-
las, mostly of German origin, accord
completely with the interests of the
Germans"
Referring to the Dardanelles, DR..
Milukoff said:
I'm the event of the naturalization
of the Dardanelles, the entry of for
eign warships into the Black sea will
force Russia to think perpetually
about fortifying the Black sea coasts
and to maintain a powerful navy.
Such a condition of things would be
worse than what existed before the
war. While closing the Black sea
ports to the warships of the other
powers, Russia preferred to allow the
straits to remain in possession of a
feeble and crumbling Turkey. If this
situation becomes impossible, it is due
to the fact that Germany laid claim
TO the heritage of the Turk and raised
the question as to whom the straits
were going to belong, Germany or
Russia"
Aims of the Allies.
OF the entente aims the foreign
minister said:
Taking as its point of departure
Germany's pretensions to create an
unbroken range of territory belong
ing to herself or her allies from Ber-
lin to Bagdad, the program of the
entente pursues two harmonious aims
in complete conformity with national
aspirations, namely, the liberation of
populations enslaved under Ottoman
dominion and the fundamental reor-
ganization of Austria Hungary.
THE creation of a CZech-Slav state
will serve as a boundary line for Ger
manyS schemes of encroachment
against Slav territories Germany and
Austria, as well as Hungary, will have
to be confined within their ethno-
graphic frontiers. The Italians will
he joined to Italy The Rumanians
will be amalgamated with our own
Ukraine. The natural problems of
history demand the unification of
Serbian territories Armenia must be
placed under the protection of Rus
sia; recent events have clearly shown
it to be impossible to allow the Ar
menian people to remain under the
Ottoman yoke"