New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-04
Pope's Peace Aim
Is Like Wilson's,
Says Denys Cochin
Main Difference Is That the
President Demands End
of Hohenzollern Rule

PARIS. Sept. 3.-"You ask for my
opinion concerning the utterances OF
Pope Benedic: and President wilson
said Baron Denys Cochin, one OF the
leaders Of the Catholic party Of France
in Parliament, to The Associated Press
today. at is certain that those OF the
Pope" he continued, have rather the
character of 3 protocol, while those OF
the President are encyclical, but do
no, see why we should oppose them TO
each other.
"pid the Pope speak in vain? No. be
cause his voice has been listened 70.
Did he speak inopportunely? No. the
highest moral authority in the world
vas obliged to speak. Did he speak
with partiality? No one has been able
to pretend so.
"He desires first of all 10 put things
back where they were before 1914 ana
~ regulate sfterward the questions
-e;ssd in the Orient and in Western
Europe in conformity with the wishes
Of the peoples and in such manner
as not 10 provoke new. wars. lie does
M, forget the horrors committed, the
inofensive populations carried on mo
s1ayery the open towns burned. tie
condemns these crimes. Nho' theh'
committed them? He renders US tuIi
,pstice as TO the honor of our armies
For the Future Urges Disarmament
"For the future, he recommends to
oil N those who attacked US as well as
70 ourselves. that they disarm, and we
.baII soon see the Germans obliged to
resign themselves to that Ill:
"The President desires 10 END mill
+srism. So does the Pope. But, IN al.
dition. Mr.. Wilson desires the end OF
the Hohenzollern dynasty when IN
situated this regime. lie MAKES war
loss upon the German nation IMAM upon
lis Guilty head. He uses about the same
language as that used by the Ai'les
ooainst Napoleon IN 1912 AFTER Vhe re-
turn from kloa. ,n... Tboro
,,.,s orIv one Napoleon, while there are
49,, ;be Teutons of the north mill
20 Hobenzollerns- among the man
,,Factnrers and bankers OF PruSslan
c;ties among the lcgions OF AVID mer.
cbarte who, as the advance guard Oh
thejr armies. fell upon our couhlrltS'
Tbey are among the SOCIALIST worn
r,,or even. and all of them are animal
ed nv the fury of DOMINATION
literary Germany and phliosophie
co-r,any the Rants and the Fichtes,
nrepared the evolution Of the sta,e' .ng
cult Of might, with their GeIeOt W S,J
pic Welt Geschicht lst daS W.
Gericht THE world hlstor! - SnS
worlds tribunalo, at once e eGP..oL
and completed by the WORDS e.1 "a
land uber Allies The naughIS h CIV
,ristocratic reform OF Luther not"
nro,ared and seconded the aberrallohJ
Il am and shall always remain s"'u
! Hegel. "a pure Lutheran.
No Benefit in Change of Autocra's
LAS for me, it goes without saying
/ thu, I shall be delighted with a.! IN, tme
yexations that come to Emperor VIII
ism To have the power OF thAt man
/ aJter twenty-five years OF maiVeL!ou
" prosperous reign and TO nave Ie'
/ ioose upon the world tempest or rum
ord death-to have allowed that 10 De
/ done through weakness or 70 nave dohe
/ - through arrogance, takes from MN
oil right TO any consideration.
"Rut | confess that | 90 not see IN
.ho fall of this traditional autocrat
ond in his being replaced by some other
| aiccted autocrat a solution OF the
Tnropean catastrophe. For US that