Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
new PEACE OFFER
oERMANY's NEW CHANCELLOR
TO MAKE CONFESSION or
FAITH" TO PARTY LEADERS.
REICHSTAG NAMES ITS TERMS
Proposed Resolution Advocates Peace
Without Annexation and Indemnl-
ties and the Freedom
of Seas.

Copenhagen. July 17.--Count Ulrieh
X. Won Bontzau, one of the great aris-
tocrats of the empire. and a cousin of
Count Won Bernstorff. has been select.
ed to succeed Or. Alfred Zlmr. .ermann
as the German foreign secretary His
selection is Il tactful offset to the APP
pointmept of commoner to the chan
celorship
The reichstagaAccording to a Berlin
dispatch, has ad dtAAAsd, the president.
DR.. Johannes III being author
ized to summon the Ady 'as soon as
circumstances allow"
The reichStags proposed peace reso-
luton, which, according to the Berlin
Tageblatt, majority of the bloc Of
the center. radicals and socialists. de-
cided to introduce unchanged upon the
reassemhIing of the reichstag, reads as
follows:
"As on August 4, 1914, soon the
threshold of the fourth year of the war,
the German people stand upon the as
surance of the speech from the throne,
we are driven by no lust Of conquest
Germany took up arms I'm defense
of the liberty and independence and
for the integrity of its territories. The
reichstag lahors for peace and a mu-
tual understanding and lasting recon
ciliation among the nations, Forced nc
quisitions of territory and political,
economic and financial violations are
incompatible with such peace,
'The reichstag rejects all plans aim-
ing at an economic blockade and the
stirring up Of enmfty among the peO-
pies after the war The freedom OF the
seas must be assured. Only an ecO-
nomic peace can prepare the ground
! for the friendly associations OF the
| peonles.
"The reichstag will energetically
promote the creation of international
judicial organization. So long, how
ever, as the enemy governments do
not accept such peace; so long as
they threaten Germany and her allies
with conquest and violation. the Ger
man people viii stand together as one
man. hold ont unshaken and fight until
the rights Of Itself and Its allies to life
and development are secured. The
German nation united Is unconquera-
BILE
1.-THE reichstag knows that In this
announcement 1t Is at one with the
men who are defending the fatheriand;
in the heroic struggles they are sure
Of the undying thanks Of the whole
people"
Germany's first commoner chancellor,
DR. George MlchaelIs bureaucrat
without even a noble "vOn" before his
name. has as yet given no indication
Of his policy regarding reform and
peace. Neither the conservatives nor
the liberals have as yet ventured to
call him their own.
The chancellor's first step, which
might be interpreted as an indication
Of nm open mind. was to receive repre-
sentatives of the two divergent groups
in the reichstag and permit them to
explain their respective standpoints.
the chancellor playing the role Of lis
tener.
The German papers unite in charac-
terizations of his energy and fair
mindedness, but are most reserved In
their predictions Of his probable pol
icy.
The papers aligned for the sO-called
German peace nre perhaps shade
more enthusiastic about the political
possibilities under the new regime that
the radical and socialist organs.