Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-18
WAR MUST BE CONTINUED TO IN
SURE LASTING PEACE
! FOR EUROPE.
GERMANY CHARGED WITH
IGNORING AGREEMENTS
Great Britain, While Sharing Desires
For Peace, Insists Permanent Peace
Can Not Come Until Gsrmany's Az.
aressive Aims Arc crushed-Terri-
toriai Demands Explained.

allies in a note addressed by Arthur
BaIfeur, British foreign minister. to
! Ambassador Spring Rice. and deliv-
cred Wednesday TO the state depart
nant amplify their reply to President
| Wilson's peace note. by explaining III
detail why they believe It impossible
| al present to attain a peace which Will
assure them such guarantees as they
! consider essential.
! The note also explains why the
allies demand the expulsion of Turkey
from Europe: restoration of Alsace-
| Lorraine 70 France, Of Italia Irredenta
TO Italy and the other territorial
changes set forth.
| Those who think the future peace
| Of the world may be insured by inter-
national treaties and international laws
| the note says, have iil-learned the les
sons taught by recent history After
charging that German influence in
Turkey had resulted in conditions as
| barbarous and more aggressive than
were known under Sultan Abdul Ha-
mid. and that il had been shown Ger
many can not be expected 10 respect
treaty obligations. Mr.. Balfour says:
So long as Germany remains the
Germany which without a shadow OF
justification overran and barbarously
| ill-treated country it was pledged TO
defend, no state can regard its rights
as secure if they have no better pro-
lection than a solemn treaty
Belgium Not Only Victim.
Asserting that Belgium was no:
70 rx'c nrlx and thar neil
trails were intended to note outrages
which accompanied its conquest the
note recites the reign OF terror at
tendant upon Germany's method OF
warfare. and in that connection says:
The war staff of the central pow
ers are well content to horrify the
world II al the same time they can
tsrroriZe it."
The people Of Great Britain, Mr..
Balfour says, share President Wilson's
desire for peace but do not believe
ii can be durable unless based on the
success OF the allied cause. Such J
peace, 1t is argued, can not be expected
| unless these three conditions are full
filed:
Must Halt Aggression.
Existing causes of international un-
rest shall be as far as possible re-
moved or weakened; the aggressive
aims and the INSCRIPTIONS methods
OF the central powers should fall into
i isrepute among their own peoples:
and finally. that behind international
| law and behind all treaty arrange.
ments for preventing or limiting hos
| tilities some form of International
sanction should be devised which
would give pause to the hardest ag-
gressor.
It is recognized that these condi-
tions may be difficult of fulfillment.
bur the belief is expressed that they
are in general harmony with Presi-
dent Wilson's IDEAS. The note declares
confidence that so far as Europe IS
| concerned. none Of the conditions can
| be satisfied, even imperfectly, unless
peace is secured on the general lines
| indicated by the allies joint note.
The text Of Mr.. Balfour's note, dated
| Jan. 10, and addressed to Sir Cecil fol-
! lows:
Share Presidents Idea.
I'm sending You a translation Of the
allied note / desire to make the fol-
! lowing observations which you should
| bring to the notice of the United States
| government.
II gather from the general tenor Of
| the presidents note that while he is
| animated by an intense desire that
| peace should come soon and that when
| 1t comes 1t should be lasting. he does
| not for the moment at least concern
| himself with the terms on which IL
should De arranged. His majesty's gov
eminent entirely shares the presidents
ideas. but they feel strongly that the
durability of peace must largely de-
pend on its character and that no
stable system Of international relations
can be built on foundations which are
essentially and hopelessly defective.
Lust Of Domination.
This becomes clearly apparent II
We consider the main conditions which
rendered possible the calamities from
which the world Is now suffering.
These were the existence Of great
powers consumed with the lust Of
domination in the midst Of a COM
munity of nations Ill prepared for de-
Tense plentifully supplied with interna-
tional laws, but with no machinery for
enforcing them and weakened by the
fact that neither the boundaries OF
| the various. states nor tnSlr InteEtldi
constitution iarnonized with the as
pirations of their constituent races or
secured to them just and equal treat
ment.
That this last evil would be great
" mitigated il the allies secured the
changes in the map OF Europe outlined
in their joint note is manifest, and
need not labor the point.
Why Turkish Reversal?
-. a:s been argued indeed the. the
expulsion of the Turks from Europe
forms no logical part of this general
scheme. The maintenance OF the Tur-
kish empire was during many genera
lions regarded by statesmen Of world
wide authority as essential to the
maintenance of European peace. Why
it is asked, should the cause Of peace
! be nnsg associated with complete re-
yersal or this lrauilionai poiicy
THE answer Is that circumstances
have completely changed. It is unnec-
essary to consider now whether tbs
creation OF a reformed Turkey med!at-
ing between hostile races in the neal
east was scheme which, had the sui
tan been sincere and the powers united
could ever have been realized. It Ger.
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