Arizona republican., 1918-02-27


 any mere adjustment or compromise of claims among rival states, is only the application of the foregoing in a def i mite direction or deduction from it. | and is, therefore, included in the as sent given to that clause.
 Agrees on Clause Four
 Now. in the fourth clause, he de- ! mands that all well defined natiohafI aspirations shall be accoEded the ut most satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or per petuing old elements of discord and antagonsm that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and. consequently, of the world. Here, so I can give assent in principle and I declare therefore, with President Will son that general peace on such a basis is discussable
 ''Only one reservation is made. These | principles must not be proposed by the president of the United States alone 1 but they must also be recognized def initely by all states and nations. Pres ident Wilson, who reproaches the Ger man chancellor with a certain amount of backwardness, seems to me in his flight of ideas to have hurried far in advance of existing realities.
 Certainly. a league of nations erect ed upon justice and mutual unselfish appreciation, a condition of humanity in which war together with all thatsre- mains of the earliest barbarism should
 nave completely disappeared and in
 which there should be no bloody sac
 rifices. no self-mutilation of peoples. no destruction of laboriousIy acquired cultural values-that would be an aim devoutly to be desired.
 No Court of Arbitration But that, aim has not yet been reached. There does not yet exist a court of arbitration set up by all na- tions for the safeguarding of peace in the name of justice When President Wilson incidentally says that the Ger man chancellor is speaking to the court of the entire world I must, as things stand today, in the name of the Ger man empire and her allies, decline this court as prejudiced joyfully as I would greet 1t, if an impartial court of arbi- traitor existed, and gladly as I would cooperate to realize such ideals Unfortunately, however. there is no trace of similar state of mind on the part of leading powers in the entente. England's war aims, as re- gently expressed in Lloyd Georges 1 speeches, are still thoroughly i'm \ perialistic and want to impose on the world a peace according to England good pleasure. When England talks about peoples right of self -determr- E nation she does not think of applying the principle to Ireland, Egypt ol India"
 Declaring that the new German operations against Russia were taker
 at the request of the populations tC restore order and that they did not aim at conquest, the chancellor con tinued:
 Defense Is His Excuse Our war aims from the beginnint were the defense of the fatherland the maintenance of our territorial in tegrity and the freedom of our eco
 homie development. Our warfare even when it must be aggressive il action, is defense in aim. l lay es ! pecial stress upon that just now il
 order that no misunderstanding shal \ arise about our operation in tn \ east.
 \ After the breaking off of peac \ negotiations by the Russian delega \ ton February 10, we had a free ham
 as against Russia The sole aim O \ the advance of our troops. which wa \ begun seven days after the ruptur, E was to safeguard the fruits of otl | peace with Ukraine. Aims of con E quest were in no way determinin ! factor. We were strengthened 1 x this by the Ulrainians' appeal flo
 support in bringing about order i their young state against the dis S turbances carried out by the Bol \ sheviki.'
 & If further military operations