The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-17
POPE'S PLANS FOR
Peace DON'T take
a.. =. IN FULL ACCORD WITH Al
LIES IN ALL WAR MAT
TIERS.
EFFECT OF PROPOSALS
NAV Cause Restatement of Aims of
Those Fighting for Worlds
Freedom.

Washington, Aug. 15.-Pope
Benedict's peace proposal had not
been received today by the govern
ment. but Secretary Lansing said
the summary as published by the AS
.sociated Press was substantially in
accord with the unofficial outline he
has before him.
There is no change in the first i'm
preston. that the allies certainly will
reject the proposal in its present
form and probably refuse to consider
it at all There is a growing prob
ability that in making clear to the
world their refusal they will restate
their war aims.
Declining to discuss the war aims
OF the allies on the ground that they
might change frequently. Mr.. Lansing
said there had been no alienation in
the aims or plans of the United States
since his speech at Madison Barracks.
Dir. Lansing declined to say
whether there had been any agree
ment with the allies regarding the
aims of the war, but intimated that
all were in accord.
The London View.
London, Aug. 15.-Some of the
morning newspapers refrain from
commenting on the Pope's peace pro-
posals, while those which notice them
editorially base their genesis to Aus
tria, and either reject absolutely or
indicate the belief that the text when
received will show them to be un-
acceptable. The Daily News which.
although firm supporter of the al
lies aims, has a decided paciist lean
ing. says that whatever reasons which
hitherto restrained the Pope from
coming forward as an official champ
ion of peace, the long delay has ma
terialy impaired the advantages the
Vatican originally possessed for dis
Interested intervention.
at is not our business 10 pass
Judgment upon policy which ex-
hausted itself in impotent signs over
the iniquities perpetrated in Belgium
and imagined 1t possible to eXtinguish
the world confagration by success
ion of timid intrigues. "The fact
is-whether il is reasonable to blame
Benedict and his advisers therefor
is another matter-considerat of
temporal and secular interest having
hanHG IL iG inn
possible to accept the Pope's inter
yention now as dictated purely by the
desire which animates all good and
all sincerely religious men to end
horror which is destroying Europe.
On Their Merits.
1.-THE Pope's proposals must be ex-
amined on the merits as strictly as
If made by Chancellor Michaelis,
President Wilson or Lloyd George"
The Daily News thinks it fairly
clear that the Pope appeal was really
inspired by Austria, but maintains
that If His Holmes can really per-
suade the belligerents to state their
conditions i'm concrete terms he Will
confer very great, If belated, bless
ing on mankind, and If he can further
persuade Germany to declare its will
ingness TO restore the independence
of Belgium, Serbia and Rumania and
withdraw from other invaded terri
tories the door to peace will be open
and a blank refusal by the allies to
negotiate on such basis would be
almost unthinkable.
Impossible.
The Daily Mail does not comment
editorially, but in an introduction in
its news column says the Pope's pro-
posals are impossible and that the
scheme is really Austro-German.
The Chronicle refere to the tradi-
tional intimacy of Austria and the
Vatican and the Austrian courts in
tense desire for peace and adds: "The
fact that the proposal comes imme-
diately after expulsion OF Russians
from Galicia and Bukowina will not
escape anybody who is IN the habit
of putting two and two together. We
may assume that the Pope acted at
Austria's prompting. In any case the
allies will have to refuse. No other
course is open to them"
The Times, while suspending final