Arizona republican., 1917-07-30
MUST QUIT IF
 PEACE IS TO
 COME FROM WAR
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no longer would be willing to take part in the struggle if it learned Of these French war aims.
 Wasn't it the principal object or Albert Thomas (premier of the French war counciD on his journey to Russia to overcome this remorse of M. Ter eschenko? The French government will not be able to deny all this and it will be obliged to confess, although it may do so only tacitly, that M. Brian was the object of stormy attacks during the secret session; that Premier Ribot was obliged to produce the secret treaty in response to the demand Of NJ. Renaudel Header of the majority socialists in the French chamber) and also that M. Briand in the course of the excited debate which ensued declared that revolutionary Russia was obliged to carry out what imperialistic Russia llhad promised and that it did not mat ter to France what was said by the lowest classes in Russia.
 "It is characteristic that Deputy Moutet according to his own statement replied in Russia to the question whether Alsace- Lorraine was the only obstacle to peace by saying he could mot answer the question in that form ,,and that Russia ought to take into consideration the fact that the Russian revolution had been purchased by French blood.
 h "The admission of Deputies Cochin and Moutet that the Russian represen~ I tativeS had declared in the course of the negotiations that they attached no importance to Constantinople throws clear light on Russian sentiment. The | delegates from the Russian armies also {. are in agreement with this.
 Regardless of this manifest proof >of the revulsion of the Russian people against a policy of aggression, Premier Ribot refused in the secret session of the French chamber tc undertake any revision of the French war aims and announced that Italy also had received guarantees of great ter ritorial aggrandiZement.
 'In order to divest their ambitions or the left bank of the Rhine of a char acter of greed and conquest he re- sorted to a lawyers trick by arguing the necessity of creating a buffer state but the opposition speakers cried tout in the din of contradictions: II is disgraceful
 ' q would like also to mention tha l Premier Ribot, after a pacifist speecf
 by Deputy Aumagneur, replied tha the Russian generals had declared tn,
 Russian armies never were in bette
 condition or better equipped than then I He depicts in perfect clearness tn
 desire to let the Russians go on shed
 ding their blood in behalf of the unjus ,ambitions of France.
 "This desire has been fulfilled bu not as Premier Ribot anticipated fo
 we can hardly presume he had sucl
 an absolute lack of humanity as that
 Though foreseeing the failure of tn
 Russian offensive he yet insisted upo
 it, thinking it would give anothe
 hours respite pending the entry c
 America into the war.
 "The enemy press endeavors to fore
 upon my inaugural speech the inter pretation that I only consented to tn
 majority resolution with an ill-con
 cealed reservation of Germany's de
 sires for conquest. I am obliged [
 deny the imputation as to an object c , which there can be no doubt. Besid, the resolution mplies-which is quit clear-that the enemy must also re nounce any ideas of conquest" pr. Michaelis added that it was man l fest that Germanys. enemies were nc , in the least considering such denuncia , tion, and that the French meeting hel
 in secret was fresh proof that he
 enemies were responsible for the pro
 longation of the war and were 'actu
 ated by lust of conquest"
 The conspicuousness of our de
 fensive war" the chancellor concluded will steel our strength and determina tion in the future"