The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-19
Latest Communication From
Downing Street To Washington
Indicates That Wilson's Plan
Is Acceptable TO Great Britain
MESSAGE POINTS OUT NEED
OF GUARANTEES FOR PAcTS
Declares That Until Germany
Ceases CaIIous Disregard For
Treaties World Must Take
Steps To Safeguard Them

WAsHlNGToN' January ls
w "A note, signed on behalf
of the Entente Allies by Arthur ].
Balfour, the British foreign secre-
tary, simplifying the note of the En-
tente sent from Paris in reply
to. the peace note of Presi-
dent Wilson, was handed yester-
day to the State department by the
British ambassador, Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice. e... r.
The new note, which deals more
specifically with the suggestion of
the President that a worlds
league to enforce peace should be
formed at the conclusion of the
war, takes the position that mere
international treaties will guar
antee nothing so long as there ex-
lists Gemrany which exalts might
over right and which refuses to be
bound by its own solemnly entered
into conventions and agreements.
"Those who think that the
worlds peace is to be ensured
through international treaties have
i'll learned the lessons taught by re-
cent history" says the British note,
relative to the suggestion by the
President that peace may be near
er than We suppose" f.. ,
Continuing, Mr.. Balfour wrote ::
$50 long as Germany remains the
Germany which overran and bar
barously ill-treated the country it
was specifically pledged to defend
there can be no security placed in
the German agreement of peace.
while Germany shows this cal.
lous regard for her treaties.
no state and no regard for right.
can be secured without some better,
protection than a treaty, however,
solemnly entered into"
The note asserts that Belgium is
not the only victim of the German
reign of terror, which is the Ger,
man method of making war. a.
Great Britain, says the British
foreign secretary, desires peace,
but it does not believe that any
peace secured at the present time
would be a durable peace unless
the aggressive aims of the Central
Powers can be called into disrepute
among their own people and unless
the existing causes of international
unrest may be removed or mater
tally weakened.
behind International law and
treaties must be some form of in
ternational sanction, devised to give
pause to the hardest aggressor.
The expulsion of the Ottomans,
from Europe will be as much CON
tribution towards the permanent
peace of Europe as will the restora-
fion of Alsace-Lorraine to France
or any other of the territorial
changes indicated in the Allies
note"
Germany stood aloof while the,
United States and Great Britain
tried by treaties to make sure that
no quarrel should be allowed to,
developed to mar the peace which
both nations desired to make per-
the British secretary re-
minds the state department, and at
the same time the German histor-.
ians were preaching the splendors
Of war a..ss, .'' -,
Belgium today stands not so
much as a victim of war as an ex-
ample to the world of what may
happen to any small state depend
Ing upon treaties for security. The
British statesman declared his be-
lief IN the note that upon the suc-
less of the Entente Allies depends