New Britain herald., 1917-01-26
PREMIER HINTS AT NEW PEACE OFFER
TiSza Inclined to Continue Fur
 ther Exchange of Views

London, Jan. 26.-Count Stephen
 ply to a question put by member
 of the Opposition Party in Parliament
 concerning President Wilson's ad-
 dress to the senate, has given a hint
 of further peace negotiations with the United States, according to a Budapest dispatch, which is forward ed by Reuters Amsterdam corre- spondent. The dispatch quotes the Hungarian statesman as saying:
 Pursuant to our peaceful policy
 before the war and our attitude dur ing the war, as we'll as our recent peace action, we can only greet with sympathy every effort aiming at the restoration of peace. We are there fore inclined to continue a further exchange of views regarding peace with the United States government. This exchange must naturally occur in agreement with out allies.
 "1n view of the fact that President Wilson in his address makes certain distinctions between our reply and our enemies reply, I must especially state that the quadruple alliance de- clares that it is inclined to enter into peace negotiations, but that at the same time it will propose terms which, in it's opinion, are acceptable for the enemy and calculated to serve as basis for a lasting peace.
 "On the other hand, the conditions of peace continued in our enemies re- ply to the United States are eouiv- alent at least to the dlsinteeration or our monarchy and of the Ottoman Empire. This amounts to an off, clal announcement that the war aims at our destruction, and we are. there- lore, forced to resist with our utmost strength as long as this is the war aim of our enemies.
 Entente Responsible.
 Tn such circumstances it cannot be uouoteo which group of powers by US attitude is the obstacle to peace. ana this group approximates to Presi- deht wilson's conception. The presi- uent opposes a peace imposed by a conqueror, which one party would re- gard as humiliation and an intoler- able sacrifice. From this it follows clearly that so long as the powers opposed to us do not substantially change their war aims and antaRon ism that cannot be bridged stands be- tween their viewpoint and the presi- dents peace aims.
 My second observation has to do with the principle of nationalities. I | desire to be brief; therefore, I will not | dilate on the question of what moral | justification England and Russia have to lay stress on the principle of na- tionalities in a peace program, which would destroy the Hungarian nation and deliver the Mohammeda popula- tion of the Bosphorus region into Rus sian domination. But I say that the whole public opinion in Hungary holds to the principle of nationalities in honor.
 "The principle of nationalities in the formation of national states, however, can only prevail unrestrictedly where single nations live within sharply | ethnographical boundaries in | compact masses and in regions suited to the organization of a state In ter ritories where various races live in i terminSled it is impossible that every single rase can form a national state 1 In such territories it would only be possible to create a state without na- tional character, or one in which a race by it's numbers and importance predominates, thus imprinting its na- tional character.
 "1n such circumstances, therefore, only that limited realization of the principle of nationalities is possible which the president of the United States rightly expresses in demanding that security of life and religion and individual and social development should be guaranteed to all peoples. believe that nowhere is this demand realized to such degree as in both states of the monarchy. I believe that i4 the regions of Southeastern Europe, which are inhabited by a varied mix ture of peoples and nations, the de- mand for free development of nations cannot be more completely realized