New-York tribune., 1918-10-14
Wilson's n'sStand
lis Denounced
By Roosevelt
ITO Begin Negotiations Is
Bad Faith With Selves and
Allies" T. r. Says

OYSTER BAY. Oct 13.-Coloncl
Roosevelt dictated the following state
mcnt tonight at his home on Saga
more Hll:'
"I regret greatly that President Will
son has entered into these negotiations,
and l trust that they will be stopped.
We have announced that we will not
submit to a negotiated peace, and un-
der such conditions to begin negotia-
tions is bad faith with ourselves and
our allies. Then if negotiations are
repudiated we will give our enemies
in their turn a chance to impugn our
good faith.
"In short, I regret the Presidents
actions, because Of its effect upon our
allies and our enemies, no less than
upon our own people, for it can't help
awaking an uneasy suspicion that we
are an untrustworthy friend and an ir-
resolute foe
Unconditional Surrender
"I earnestly hope that the President
will instantly send back word that we
demand an unconditional surrender and
that we refuse to compound felony
by discussing terms with the felons.
at is deeply discrcditable to us that
Bulgaria should have been forced to
surrender to our allies, while we re-
manned neutral, and it is even more
discreditable to US that we did not
long ago declare war on Turkey.
II wish Congress would pass reso-
luton of war against Turkey to-mor-
row.
an any future negotiations by the
President I trust he will remember
that good faith demands that we act
only in concert with our allies, and
that this war should be finished by the
fighting of the fighting men.
at also demands that there should
be no confusion of the issues by even
n partial return to the bad old days
when conversation and note writing
were considered adequate action after
the sinking Of the Lusitania and kin
dred atrocities.
"Moreover, 7 most earnestly hope
that the Senate of the United States
and all other persons competent to
speak for the American people will en-
phaticaily rcpudiate the so-called
fourteen points and the various similar
utterances of the President.
"These fourteen points are accouched
in such vague language that many of
them may mean anything or nothing
while others are absolutely mis-
chevious
Concerted Action Urged
"The so-called freedom of tho seas,
tor instance. would, if accepted in the
German sense, mean q surrender to the
German plan of murder; the proposed
disarmament plan if honestly put into
effect by US. would leave us at the
mercy of any foreign power that chose
to regard the plan as a scrap of paper'
and the proposal merely to give
autonomy instead of Independence to
the oppressed subject races of Asturia
and turkey is a base betrayal of the
Czecho- -Slovaks, the Armenian, and
our other smaller allies and the cynical
reputation Of the idea that we meant
What we SAID when we spoke of making
the world safe for democracy.
TO sum up, let US remember here
after that VIC and our allies should all
act IN concert and with the fullest
knowedge in advance of any important
step by any of us Cor to do as the
President has done in this case is
much worse than any of the things of
secret diplomacy because it becomes
dangerously near to being treacherous
dplomacy).
Let us also avoid confusing our owr
people by egotations or pseudo-negotj-
atoms and adopt as our motto under
conditional c,,rrordo,,v