New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
German Radicals Not Ready for
Peace Until Army Is Crushed
Minority Socialists Still on Offensive in America, and
Therefore 1t Is Useless to Hope for Results From
Peace Message of Wilson

SS".,ons named were the Czcchs. Croats.
'S'roS' hnmanians and Armcnians.
." IS perfectly clear that if the
SineV"s bohemlans and Slovaks). Juro-
laws oervians. Croatians and Sloven-
,"ns, ukralnians and Rumanians of Ans.
trla), demand undsputed independencc
.neS can point to President Wilson and
20 equally clear statements of Lloyd
NeorEe as encouraging them in their
movement toward this indcpendence
Already in military and domestic re-
voIts since the war they have sacrificed
hundreds of thousands of lives for this
obJect, and there is no reason to sun
pose that either Lloyd George or
ooarow Wilson has been abandoning
mem IN spite or the somewhat vague
formulations Of their most recent state
m,ents Possibly the diplomatic cxplana-
ton OF these recent statements lies
IN the hope that these subject nation
ailtlcs OF Austria Hungary will COM
olne with the Socialists to force their
government to democratic peace.
rather than emphasizing their some
what conflicting and ill-dcfincd sep
aratlst tendencies at the present diff
tcu!t moment
Autonomy for Jews
5. President Wilson demands "an
"'>S'>'"NlS tbillOlCStSQ opportunity OIL
autonomous development" for the sub
lect nationalitics of Turkey The Ger
man Minority Socialists in the Stock
holm conference demanded that Ar
menia be restored to Turkey, and that
weird personal autonomy" should be
vouchsafed to the Jews Of Palestine.
but without any territorial autonomy.
6. President Wilson demands in
IDENTITIES or "restoration' by Germany
+Nr- 1lnI,
mania and Northern France. The Ger
ran Minority Socialists in the Stock
holm conference demanded that in
every case except that of Belgium this
restoration should be paid for from an
international fund" The Soviet would
not even grant payments from this in
ternational fund to any nation except
Serbia, Montenegro and Belgium leav-
ing France and Rumania absolutely un-
compensated for damage done by Ger
many. although they had done no cor
responding damage in German terri
tory.
Z. President Wilson demands re-
consideration Of the title of Germany
to her former colonies, in which "the
interests of the populations concerned
must have equal weight with the equi-
table claims of the government whose
title is to be determined The Rus
.0iNH CONlNN' oli VIC COiIEITN, lUSClEatc cu
by the German Minority Socialists. de-
mands that the German colonies be ere
stored y
Made in Germany
1t might be added that the German
Minority Socialists have made some de-
mands of such an aggressive character
that they are not even supported by
the German government: for example
their formula 'political independence"
Tor Ireland since Ireland is not one
Of the countries which has lost cts
independence during the war" which
Is the principle laid down by the Ger
man government in the negotiations
with the Bolsheviki at Brcst-Litovsk
Much as it desires to embarrass the
British government, the ruling class Of
Germany would not dream of making
such an absurd demand-that is. pub
licly, for of course the demand for the
Independence Of an "Irsh republic
was invented by the German propa-
gandistS and launched by German
money from Berlin. However, this is
very far from official Endorsement by
the German government.
8. President Wilson demands the re-
moval, so far as possible, of all eco
nomic barriers after the war But he
has not withdrawn his explicit state
ment in his war message to Congrcs IS
on December 4, in which he declared
that in case the German government
'is not utterly brought to an end" the
following situation might arise;
at might be impossible in such un-
toward circumstances, to admit Ger
many to the free economic intercourse
which must inevitably spring out OF
the other partnerships of real peace
,l.t$
that; and such situation. inevitable
because of distrust, would in the very
nature of things sooner or late~ cure
itself by processes which would as
suredly set in
Nor would this be our only recourse
against the rulers Of Germany. at
might be impossible to admit them tc
the partnership of nations which must