Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-12
TEXT or ALLIES REPLY TO vii.
SONS PEACE SUGGESTIONS
MADE PUBLIC.
SAFETY or FUTURE
MUST De ASSURED
Will Fight On Until Objects Of War
Are Attained, Says Joint Commune
cation. TO Prssidsnt--AlIiss Claim to
Be Fighting For Humanity and For
Insurance Of Peace in Future.

q washington, Jan. 1.-THE translation
Of the French text of the entente note
as cabled by Ambassador Sharp at
Paris follows:
Ambassador Sharp to the Secretary
of State--American Embassy, Paris,
Jan. 10, 191T.-The allied governments
have received the note which was de-
livered to them in the name of the
government of the United States on
the 18th Of December. 1916. They have
studied it with the care imposed upon
them both by the exact realization
which they have Of the gravity of the
hour and by the sincere friendship
which attaches them to the American
people.
For insurance Of Peace.
.In general way they wish to de-
clare that they pay tribute to the ele-
walton of the sentiment with which the
American note is inspired and that they
associate themselves with all their
hopes with the project for the creation
of a league OF nations to insure peace
and justice turnout the world.
: They recognize all the advantages
for the cause Of humanity and civiliaa- :
ton the institution of information
al agreements destined to avoid violent
conflicts between nations would pre-
vent: agreements which must imply the
sanctions necessary to insure their ex-
ecution and thus to prevent an appar-
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aggressions.
Blame Central Powers.
But a discussion Of future ar
rangements destined to insure an en-
during peace presupposes satisfac-
tory settlement OF the actual conflict.
The allies have as profound a desire
as the government of the United States
to terminate as soon as possible a war
for which the central empires are re-
sponsible and which inflicts such cruel
sufferings upon humanity. but they be-
lieve that it is impossible at the pres
emit moment to attain peace which
will assure them reparation, restitution,
and such guarantees to which they are
entitled by the aggression for which
the responsibility rests with the CEN
trail powers and Of which the principle
itself tended to ruin the security OF
Europe: peace which would, on the
other hand, permit the establishment
of the future OF European nations on g
solid basis. 7f
Fighting For Humanity.
+ THE allied nations are conscious that
they are not fighting for selfish inter-
ests but above ali to safeguard the in
dependence Of peoples, Of right and OF
humanity.
1.-THE allies are fully aware of the
losses and suffering which the war
causes to neutrals as well as to bellig-
erents and they deplore them: but
they do not hold themselves RESPONSE
bic for them, having in no way either
willed or provoked this war. and they
strive to reduce these dangers in the
measure compatible with the inexor-
able exigencies OF their defense against
the violence and the wiles Of the en-
envy
Understands U. s. Position.
1T is with satisfaction, therefore,
that they take note Of the declaration
that the American communication is in
nowise associated in its origin with
that Of the central powers transmitted
on the 10Th Of December by the govt
eminent Of the United States. They
did not doubt. moreover, the resolution
OF that government to avoid even the
appearance OF support, even moral,
Of the authors responsible for the war.
THE allied governments believe that
they must protest in the most friendly
but in the most specific manner against
the assimilation established in the
American note between the two groups
of belligerents: this assimilation, based
upon public declarations by the central
powers, Is in direct opposition to the
evidence, both as regards responsibility
for the past and as concerns guaran-
tees for the future; President Wilson
in mentioning it certainly had no in
tention of associating himself with it.
onus OF War on Germany.
'If there is an historical fact eetab-
lixhed at the present date, It Is the
willful aggression of Germany and
Austria Hungary to insure their hege-
mony over Europe and their economic
domination over the world.