The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-02-11
STRIVING FOR new INTERNATIONAL
ORDER, NO MERE PEACE PATCHES
United States Chief Executive Sets Forth Ultimate Futy
tra Powers Efforts Establish General by
dividual Barter and Concession With Nations Who
Have Endured "Infnte Sacrifices of These
Years of Tragica Suffering"

Hertling does not see that, does
not grasp 1t, Is in fact living in
his thought In a world dead and
gone? Has he utterly forgotten
the reichstag resolutions of the
10th Of July, or does he delib-
erately ignore them? They spoke
. of the conditions of n general
peace, not of national aggrandize-
ment or of arrangements between
state and state.
THE peace OF the world de-
pends upon the Just settlement OF
each of the several problems to
which l adverted in my recent
address to the congress. I, of
course. do not mean that the
peace OF the world depends upon
the acceptance of any particular
set of suggestions as to the way
in which those problems are to be
dealt with. mean only that
those problems, each and all af-
feet the whole world; that un-
less they are dealt with in a
spirit of unselfish and unbiased
Justice. with view to the
wishes, the natural connections,
the racial aspirations, the Sc
curity, and the peace of mind of
the peoples involved, no perma-
nent peace will have been at
tained. They cannot be dis
cussed separately or in corners.
None of them constitutes a pri-
vate or separate interest from
which the opinion of the world
may be shut out. Whatever af-
fects the peace affects mankind,
and nothing settled by military
force. IL settled wrong, is settled
at all. 1t will presently have to
be reopencsI. 'ser1s'
Speaking in Court Of Mankind.
rs Count Won Hertiing not
aware that he is speaking In the
court of mankind. that all the
awakened nations Of the world
now sit In Judgment on what
every public man, of what every
nation, may say on the issues OF a
conflict which has spread to every
region of the world? The reich
stag resolutions of July them
selves frankly accepted the deci-
sions of that court. There shall
be no annexations, no contribu-
tions. no punitive damages. Peo-
Piles are not to be handed about
from one sovereignty to another
by an international conference or
and understanding between rivals
and antagonists.
National aspirations must be
peoples may now be
and governed only by
their own consent. 'Self-deter-
is not a mere phrase. 1t
Is an imperative principl Of ac-
lion which cfataop,a,, u,;1l bnaaa
forth ignvre 1T their peril. We
cannot have general peace for the
asking. or by the mere arrange
ments of peace conference. It
cannot be pieced together out of
individual understandings be-
tween powerful states. All the
parties of this war must Join in
the settlement OF every issue any
where involved In it; because
what we are seeking is a peace
md maintain and every item of it
must be submitted to the common
Judgment whether it be right and
air. an act Of Justice, rather
han a bargain between soyer-
'igns. he United States has no
iesire to interfere in European
I'A"i'io VI W uSb dIblLeT III
opean territorial disputes. She
would disdain to take advantage
Il any internal weakness or dis
rider to impose her own will upon
mother people. She is quite
eady to be SHOWN that the set
lement she has suggested is not
he best or the most enduring.
Partner in Sufferings.
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ional sketch of principles and of
he way in which they should be
pplied. But she Uttered this war
ecause she was made a partner,
'hether she would or not, in the
offerings and indignities inflicted
y the military masters of Ger
amy against the peace and Sc
lrity of mankind; and the con-
ftions of peace will touch her as
early as they will touch any
her nation to which is entrusted
leading part in the maintenance
civilization. She cannot see
sr way to peace until causes
this war are removed, it's re-
'wal rendered as nearly as NAV
, impossible.
This war has its roots i'm the
sregard of the rights of small
luons and of nationalities which
cked the union and the force to
AXE good their claim to deter
Inc their own allegi and
cir own forms Of polit' life.
Covenants must now be en-