The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-13
"ALLIES PUT
AIMS HIGH"
London Press Praises Joint
Reply to Presi-
dent
SPECIFIC ANSWER
CONSIDERED WISEST
Wilson Cannot Fail to APP
preciate Frankness-The
German Refusal Poor

London, Jan. l3.-The Manchester
Guardian says the reply of the allies to
President Wilson was received too late
for extended comment but that it be-
lieves the document is "a boldly con-
ceived statement of the position of the
allies which goes long way towards
satisfying President Wilson's request for
specific information as to the objects for
which they are persisting in the war"
In this respect The Guardian says, the
note is conceived in a wholly different
spirit from Germany's reply. 1t believes
the reference to the right of all peoples,
small as well as great, to security for
free economic development refers, espe-
cially to "The vital need of. Russia for
free use of the passage to the Mediter-
ranean through the Dardanelles, as well
as the corresponding need of Serbia and
Montenegro of free access to the Adriat
ic." This newspaper sees the final break
up of the Ottoman empire in the demand
for expulsion of the Turks from Europe
and asks: "Would Americans, who have
watched with horror the massacres of
which the Turk has been guilty, think
that would be misfortune to the
world"
The article concludes: "The allies put
their aims high, They are perhaps the
maximum rather than minimum terms.
But the allies are careful to state that
the ruin or political destruction of the
Germanic powers forms no part of their
objects, which is as it should be. One
thing we miss, and that is clear state
ment that they look forward to the
American proposal of a league to enforce
peace as an essential part of the guaran-
tees for the future which are to be in
cluded in the conditions of peace, but
this may be implied and we trust it is
intended"
The Liverpool Post expresses the hope |
that every means will be employed to
circulate the reply of the allies through |
out the length and breadth of the United |
States, and continues: "There ought to |
be no possibility of any American citi-
zen failing to be fully possessed of so
complete and so convincing a presenta
tion of the allies case and their aims in
the war which they did not seek but
which they mean to carry through to the
only conclusion which can ensure for the
future universal recognition of those
principles of liberty, justice and invio-
liable fidelity to international obligations
which, as President Wilson Is reminded,
Have never ceased to inspire the action
of the United States"
The Daily Telegraph contends that the
allies reply is in complete contrast with
Germany's differing from it fundamen-
tally and gravely, to the latter's disad
vantage. 1t SAYS the German answer
contained no hint Of terms as suggested
by President Wilson, and was nothing
less than a refusal to entertain the
American suggestion; while the allies
response accepts President Wilson's sug-
gestion and acts upon it. Making every
allowance for neutrality of thought and
the results of the German propaganda" '
says the paper, eve do not see how any J
American citizen, who is not definitely
a German partisan, can raise objection !
to the allies statement of their aims in
any particular.
"The allies have made as full a pro- q
fession of their aims in this war as was !
ever made in history by any nation ex-
ercising the right of beIligereney. There <
is not among their objects one of which
they have not reason to be proud, and in
that assurance they challenge the judg
ment of the American people and the
neutral world" t
The Daily News, approving of the al O
lies stating their terms and emphasizing \
the contrast between their reply and that
Of Germany in this respect, says: o
"The note embodies just such state
nent as was needed Whether peace is G
yet obtainable on these terms is for Ger
many to indicate. The present note sug- G
yests that the time has not yet come
But at least the allies have not closed
he door. Their position is clear and /
and we believe that no
where will the justice of their conten- J
ions be more fully recognized than in
he United States"