Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-12-12
IDEALS IF RUSSIANS
NOT SHARED By KAISER

. l+JNDON, l}SC. LIT uI IliCl uNIoiAS
OF the statement made to Russian jour
! raIists by Sir George Buchanan, Brit
/ ish ambassador at Petrograd, as for
warded in q news dispatch today,
( shows the ambassador declared the
/ Russian commissaries were mistaken
/ ia thinking that durable peace could
be obtained by asking the Germans
1 for an apmistice, to be followed by an
agreement. The allies, he said, first
wished to arrive at a general agree
mont in harmony with their declared
war aims, and then to arrange an ar
mistice,
Hitherto not one word had been
said By any German statesman %
show that the ideals of the Russian
democracy were shared by Emperor
/ William and his government. the am
bassador siad. 1t was with the Ger
man autocracy, not the German people,
that the armistice negotiations were
| being conducted. He asked whether
the emperor, once when he knew the
! Russian army had ceased to exist as
a fighting force would be disposed to
/ subscribe to a democratic peace and a
durable one On the contrary, the
peace contemplated by the emperor
was a German imperialistic peace.
Although the allies couldn't send
representative to take part in the
a1mistice negotiations they were ready
Sir George said, as soon as a stable
government, recognized by the RUS
sian people, had been constituted, to
examine with that government the
aims of the war and of the possible
conditions Of a just and durable peace.
| In the meantime, the allies were CIV
| ing Russia the most effective resist
/ ance by holding the bulk of the Ger
man armies on their respective fronts.
| The ambassador reiterated Great
! Britain's desire to stand by Russia in
! this critical hour, and asked whether
tie same could be said of Russian feel
ings toward Great Britain He re-
marked that hardly day passed that
did not witness a bitter attack on
Great Britain in the official news
papers, giving the impression that
Great Britain, not Germany, was Rus
sia's enemy and the proyoker of the
war.
Great Britain bore the Russians no
grudge, realizing they were worn out
by the sacrifices of war and the gen
eral disorganization inseparable from
d great political revolution, the am
bassador said
Denying reports of contemplated CO.
ercive or unitiye action In the event
Russia should make separate peace,
Sir George nevertheless asserted the
allies were entitled to complain that
the council of peoples commissarias
had been negotiating with the enemy
without previously consulting the al
( lies, which was a breach of the Lon
don agreement Of 1914 1t could not
, be admitted that for a moment that a
( treaty concluded by the autocratic
( government did not bind the democra-
/ cy whereby the autocracy was re-
placed
Nevertheless Great Britain did not
Wish to induce an unwilling ally t.
continue to share in thee ommon eff
fort by appealing to treaty rights, but
there we're higher principles 70 which
appeal might be made. These, he said,
were principles recognized by the CON
,'ssaries, namely those of demo
with the wishes of the smaller nation
alities, which repudiated the idea of
/ exacting plumber from a conquereH
enemy under the name Of indemnity
or of incorporating reluctant popula-
tons in great empires. Such, broad
~ speaking, was the peace Great
Britain, equally with the Russian
democracy, desired TO see obtained