Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-06
BRITISH PREMIER STATES
 TERMS OF NATION ON PEACE
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 The basis Of any territorial settle ment must be government With the consent of the governed. the premier asserted.
 MT. Lloyd George said that during the last few days he had taken special pains 10 ascertain the views and the attitude of representative men of all sections of thought in the country He had read the statement of labor's war aims. he continued. and discus sed the subject of war aims with for mer Premier Asquith and with Wis count Grey. Had the National lead CTS in Ireland not been engaged with the tangled problem of Irish self government. he would have been hap
 py to exchange views with them. He
 had also consulted representatives Of Great Rrtain's overseas dOminiOns. As q result of these discussions said Mr Lloyd George. although the government alone was responsible for
 the actual language he proposed us
 ing. there was a national agreement
 as to the character and purpose of the nations war aims and Eeace con ditions. He was speaking. therefore,
 not merely the mind of the govern ment but the mind of the nation and the empire.
 "We are not fighting a war of aggression against the German peo- pie" declared the premier. The des- truction or disruption of Germany or
 the German people has never been q
 war aim with us since the first day of the war to now The British peo- ple never aimed at breaking up the German peoples or the dsintegration of their state Our wish is rot 10 de strov Germany's great position in the world but to turn her aside from devote her strength to beneficent tasks"
 The premier continued with the de claIaticn that Great Britain was not fighting to take Constantinople from Turkey nor to destroy Austria Hun gary.
 "We are not fighting" he said, "to destroy Austria-Hungary or to deprive
 Turkey of it's capital. or the rich
 lands in Asia Minor or Thrace, which
 are predominantly Turkish l (Zfrnin'S PrOnOuncemeMt. Referring to the pronouncement | made on December 9 by Count Ger
 min. the Austro-Hungarian foreign
 minister. at the Brest-Iitoysk peace
 conference. the premier said:
 Tt is impossible to believe that
 any permanent peace could be erect
 cd on such a foundation. 1 Mere lip service to the formula
 of no annexation. no indemnity and
 self-determination is unless.'
 Premier Lloyd George said that an
 independent Poland comprising all
 genuinely Polish elements who desir :, ed to participate was an urgent neces
 sity for the stability of Western Europe
 We mean to stand by the F'rencf democracy to the death,' the premier
 continued "in the demand tae French
 make for a reconsideration of the
 great wrong of 1871. when Alsace
 Lorraine was taken away from them
 This sore has poisoned the peace O.
 Euope for half a century. and unti
 it is cured. healthy conditions canno
 be restored"
 The prime minister said that demo cracv in Great Britain would stant to the last by the democracies o France and Italy.
 "We should be proud to fight tt the end" he declared. "side by sid, with the new Russian democracy. 'St } would America. France and Italy. Blu if the present rulers of Russia ac independently we have no means tt arrest the catastrophe. Russia car only be saved by her own people" Great Colonies. Speaking with regard to the dispo sition of the German colonies, thu } premier said.
 "rhev are held at the disposal o , conference whose decision mus have primary regard to the wishes and interest of their native inhabit } ants
 Preparation means recognition tae premier said. "UllesS interna tional right is recognized by insis tance on payment for injury done il defiance of it's cannonS it can neVe , be reality. Next comes the restor ation of Serbia. Montenegro and tn , occupied parts of France. Italy an' Roumania The complete withdraw , al of alien armies and reparation fo , injustice is the fundamental condition , of permennanent peace.' , As regards the German consti , tuition. Mr. Lloyd George said Grea Britain was not fighting to destro | it. although it considered military ' autocratic constitution dangerou anachronism. After his reference t | the desirability of the adoption of : democratic constitution by German . he continued:
 } "The days of the treaty of Vienn