The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-09
WILSON GIVES
GERMANY TERMS
FOR ENDING WAR
States Ia Specific Considera-
tons for a Permanent
World Peace
UPHOLDS RUSSIA
AS TO CONFERENCE
Belgium Must Be Evacuated
and Restorative Stand
with the Allies

Washington, Jan. 9.--President Wilson
has cateporicallv set forth America {
peace terms for the information of the
world They are explicit in detail and
the president backs them up with the
ringing assertion that we are willing
to fight and continue TO fight until they
are achieved" He proposes an open, not
secret peace; freedom of the seas;
equality of trade conditions; guarantees
of reduced armament; an absolutely i'm
partial adjustment of all colonial claims
which win recognize also the equal in
terests of the populations concerned;
evacuation of all Russian territory and
continued assistance to the new Russia,
evacuation and restoration of all Belgian
and French territory, and the wrong done
to France by Prussia in 1871 in the mat
ter of Alsace Lorraine should be righted;
readjustment of the Italian frontier,
.along clearly recognizable lines of ma
tionality'; freest opportunity to the peo-
pies of Austria Hungary for autonomous
developments Rumania, Serbia and
Montenegro TO be evacuated and Serbia
accorded access to the sea, a secure Sow
ereignty to the Turkish portions of the
Ottoman empire; security of life and
autonomy for other nationalities under
Turkish rule; naturalization of the Oar
daneles; an independent Polish state
to include the territories inhabited by
indsputably Polish populations; and a
general association of nations under spe
cifc covenants to afford mutual guar
antees of political independence and ter |
ritorial integrity to great and small |
states alike. President Wilson has struck |
hands with Lloyd George to assure
lasting peace. Their views are identical /
and Germany now is given an answer
which all the world can understand. The
address attracts particular attention in
its references to Russia, for it at once !
warns the Russian negotiators against
the wiles OF German diplomacy and as
sures the Russian people of the continued
support of the nations which are fighting
Germany if Russia refuses to be misled
at this time The foremost note in the
dNhitco 10 WIN iEsptit w DtlSIuiis III
the president declares that until that
country is evacuated and restored and
without any attempt to limit the soyer-
eighty which she enjoys in common with +
all other free nations" the whole struo-
ture and validity of international law is
forever impaired. Alsace Lorraine, the
president evidently regards as a peculiar
problem to be adjusted little different
lu than that ro1ofin9 n tarritar,nu /,
Gently occupied. The president admits
satisfaction with the recent statement of
war aims by Lloyd George and assures
the country that there is no confusion of I
counsel among the adversaries of the 3
central powers. no uncertainty of prin-
ciple, no vagleness of detail 1--WE have
spoken now" he says, ''s,irey in terms
too concrete to admit of any further {
doubt or question. II is principle of c
justice to all peoples and terms of liberty I
and safety with one another whether
they be strong or weak. To the vindiea
ton of this principle the people of the !
United States are ready to devote their ?
lives, their honor and everything they q
possess"
Germany cannot avoid a reply TO the !,
president, who has stated the sentiment !.
of the civilized world with respect to the !,
war aims of the entente allies She can
not accept the terms laid down without
complete defeat. But she can 7
not ignore a statement so plainly made
az to place upon her the burden for the =
continuation of the war. II may well be =
that the combined efforts of the United !,
States, Great Britain and France to ma y
neuver Germany into a position from !"
which she cannot escape will result at
least in an offer to consider one or more n
Of the allied proposals as basis for ne ? :
gotiations. Diplomacy now has some :.
thing concrete upon which to work. The :"
remaining winter months may witness !;
military activity, but it will !, =
hardly excel in desperate energy the ac i;
tivities of the diplomatsts of the world. !
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