Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-07
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
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representative bodies shall be form ed immediately on broad basis in the | Baltic provinces in Lithuania and Po- land We will promote the realiza- | ton of necessary preliminary condi- | tions therefore without delay by the introduction of civilian rule. All these l lands shall regulate their constitu- tions and their relations with neigh | boring peoples without external in reference.
 Tn the matter of international pol icies, I have taken a cIea~ stand through the manner in which the formation of the government was | about. Upon my motion leaders of the majority parties were summoned for direct advice. It was my convic- | ton, gentlemen, that unity of impe- rial leadership should he assured not only through mere schismistic par tv allegiance by the different members of the government I considered almost still more important the unity of ideas. I proceeded from this view point and have. in making my selec- tions, laid greatest weight on the fact that the members of the new impe- rial government stand on a basis of a peace of justice, reardless of the war situation, and that they have opnely declared this to be their standpoint at the time when we stood at the height of our military successes.
 'T am convinced that the manner ir which imperial leadership is now constituted with cooperation of the reichstag is not something ephemeral and that when peace comes a govern nnent cannot again be formed which does not find support in the reichstae and does not draw its leaders there from.
 '"The war has conducted us beyond the old multifarious and disrupted par ty life which made it so difficult tc put into execution a uniform and de. cisive political wish. The formation Of q majority means the formation 0. a political will, and an indisputablt result of the war has been that 1T Germany, for the first time, great par ties have joined in a firm. harmoni. GUS programme and have thus comt into position to determine for them. selves the fate of the people
 This thought will never die Thi4 development will never be retractet
 (applause) and I trust that so Ions as Germanys fate is ringed about my dangers, those sections of the people outside the majority parties and tvhost representatives do not belong to thu government will put aside all thar separates us and will give the father. land what is the fatherlands "This development necessitates al alteration of our constitutions provi sions along the lines of the imperia decree of September 30 which shal make it possible that those member, of the reichstag who entered the gov,
 ernment will retain their seats in the reichstag. A bill to this end hat been submitted to the federal state
 and will immediately be made the ob iect of their consideration and de !, cision.
 Gentlemen, let us remember tn words spoken by the emperor on Aug
 4, 1914. which I permitted myself u , paraphrase last December at Karls rune: There are. in fact, parties, bu they are all@ German parties.' (Ap 7 plause).
 Political developments in Prussia the principal German federal state
 must proceed in the spirit of thes
 words of the emperor, and the mes
 sage of the king of Prussia promisin;
 the democratic franchise must be ful
 filled, quickly and completely. (Ap
 plause). I do not doubt. also tha
 those federal states which still la
 behind in the development of thei constitutional conditions will resolute