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with Austria what shall be done with Poland. In the determination of all questions affecting the Balkan states. he defers, as I understand him, to Austria and Turkey; and with regard
 to the agreements to be entered into concerning the non-Turkish peoples Of the present Ottoman empire, to the Turkish authorities themselves. After a settlement all around, effect ed in this fashion, by individual bar ter and concessions, he would have no objection, if l correctly interpret his statement, to league of nations which would undertake to hold the new balance of power steady against external disturbances.
 Sacrifice Demands Genuine Peace. IL must be evident to everyone who understands what this war has wrought in the opinion and temper of the world, that no general peace, no peace worth the infinite sacrifice of these years of tragical suffering can possibly be arrived at in any such fashion. The method the German chan cellor proposes. is the method of the congress of Vienna. We cannot and will not return to that. What is at stake now is the peace of the world What we are striving for is new in- ternational order based upon broad and universal principles of right and justice-no mere peace of shreds and patches. Is it possible that Count von Hertling does not see that, does not grasp it, is in fact living. in his thought in world dead and gone? /? Has he utterly forgotten the reichstag resolutions of the nineteenth of July, or does he deliberately ignore .nem ? they spoke of the conditions of a general peace, not of national aggran- diZement or of arrangements between state and state. The peace of the world depends upon the just settle ment Of each of the several problems to which l adverted in my recent ad- dress to the congress. l, of course, do not mean that the peace of the world depends upon the acceptance of particular set of suggestions as to the way in which those problems are to be dealt with. 1 mean only that those problems each and all affect the whole world; that unless they are dealt with in spirit of unselfish and unbiased justice, with view to the wishes, the natural connections, the racial aspirations. the, security and peace of mind of the peoples involved, no permanent peace will have been attained. They cannot be discussed separately or in corners. None of them constitutes private or separate interest from which the opinion of the world may be shut out. Whatever ,1yt, and nothing settled by military force, if settled wrong, is settled at all. It will presently have to be reopened.
 HertIing Before Court of Man.
 Is Count von Hertling not aware that he is speaking in the court of mankind, that all the awakened na- tions of the world now sit in judg- ment on what every public man. of whatever nation. may say on the is sues of conflict which has spread to every region of the world? The reichstag resolutions of July them selves accepted the decisions of that court. There shall be no annexations, no contributions, no punitive dang ages. People are not to be handed about from one sovereignty to another by an international congress or un- derstanding between rivals and antog- onists. National aspirations must be respected, peoples may now be dom mated and governed only by their own consent "Self-determination" is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore in their peril We cannot have general peace for the asking or by the mere arrangements of a peace conference. It cannot be pieced together out of individual un- derstandings between powerful states. All the parties to this war must join in the settlement of every issue any where involved in it because what we arc seeking is a peace that we can all unite to guarantee and mintin Every item of it must be submitted to the common judgment whether it be right nd fair, an act of justice rather than a bargain between sovereigns. The United States has no desire to inter fere in European affairs or to act as arbiter in European territorial dis puteS. She would disdain to take ad- vantage of any internal weakness or disorder to impose her own will upon another people. She is quite ready to be shown that the settlements she has suggested are not the best or the most enduring. They are only her own provisional sketch of principles and of the way in which they should be ap- piled. But she entered this war be- cause she was made partner, wheth- CT she would or not, in the sufferings and indisnities inflicted by the mili- tarv masters of Germany against the peace and security of mankind and the conditions of peace will touch her as nearly as they will touch any other nation to which is entrusted leading part in the maintenance of civilization
 She cannot see her way to peace until the causes of this war are removed, it's renewal. as nearly as may be, inn possible.
 Rights of Small Nations.
 This war had it's roots in the dis regard of the rights of small nations and of nationalities which lacked the union and the force to make good their claim to determine their own allegi- ance and their own form of political ntc l,n tN