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parts on tho principles o. justice mas
i prospect OF endurance.
The second clause expresses the de-
sire that peoples and provinces shall
not be partered about from sovereignty
TO sovereignty as If they were mere
chstteis and pawns in 4 game, even The
great game. now forever d;scrcdi,ed.
OF the balance OF power.
This clause, toe, can be uncondi.
tionaiiy aSscntcd TO. indeed one won.
dcrSs that the President of the United
states considered il necessary TO en-
phasizc II anew. This clause contains
Pclcmic aEains; conditions long
vanished. views against Cabine, poll
tics and Cabinet wars. against mixing
state territory and princcly and pri-
vatc property, which holons 20 a past
that is far behind US
IL do not want to be discourtcous,
ou. when one remembers the earlier
utteranccs of Presiden; Wilson. one
might think that he is laboring under
the illusion that there exists in Ger
many sn antasoniSrl between an auto.
cratic government and mass of peo-
pic without rights
DESCRIBES RELATIONS OF
PRINCES TO MASS OF PEOPLE
And Yet President Wilson knows
as. st any rate, the German edition Of
his look on the state proves--cicrman
political literature, and he knows.
therefore, that with US, princes and
governments are the highest members
of the nation as a whole. organized in
the form of state, the highcs; mem
bers. with whom a final decision lies.
But. seeing tina; they also a. tho SUI.
prene organs, belong 10 the Whole. tie
decision is OF such nature that only
The welfare OF the whole is the guild
ing line for a decision TO bc taken. T:
may 30 useful expressly 10 point this
out to President wilson's coun,rymen.
Then, finally a. the close of tho sec.
ond clause, the game OF The balance
of power Is declared 10 be forever dis
credited. We. toe, can only gladly ar
Maud As is we'll known, II was Eng
land who invented the principle OF the
maintenance Of the balance of power,
in order especially to apply il when
one OF the statcs OIL the European Con-
;inent threatened 10 hccomc 100 power.
full for her, I, was only smother OK.
preston For Ensland's domination.
AGREES TO POINTS SET
FORTH IN THIRD CLAUSE
The third clause according 10 which
every territorial settlement iny olvcd IN
this war must be made In the interest
and for the benefit OF the ponula tons
concerned, and not as part OF any mere
adjus tmtnt or compromise Of claims
among rival states, is only the appli-
cation Of the foregoing in a definite
-r.itnection, or "A deduction from it, and
,S, therefore, included in the assent
given 70 that clause.
NOW, in the fourth clause. he de-
i inands that all wcll-dcfned national
aspirations shall be accorded the ut
I most satisfaction tina; can be accord
..cd them without introducing new or
'.1rerpc tua ting old elements OF dsccrd
and antasonism that would be likely
In time. to break the peace OF Europe
and, consequently, of the world Here
also can sive assent in principle. ana
! declare. therefore, with rresiden,
Wilson, that 4 general peace On such a
basis IS discussa BILE.
only one reServatio is 10 be made
These principles must not be proposed
.TbX the President of the United States
alone, but they must be recognized def
nitely by all states and nations. Prcsl-
dent Wilson who reproachcs the Ger
% backwa rdncss, seems TO mo IN his
aieht Of IDEAS TO have hurried FAR in
advance Of existing realities.
EECLApES TINE Il not HERE:
49,, FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Certainly u lcsGuc OF nations erect
Cd upon justice and mutual unsclfiah
appreciation, condition OF humanity,
In which war. together with all that
remains OF the earliest barbariSm
SHOULD have completely disappeared
and in which there should be no bloody
sacrifices, no salt -mutiIatiou OF peoples
no dcstruct'or OF loboriouSly acquired
cultural values ihnt would b. an aim
de"outlN 90 L." desired
"Eu, that aim Ia. not set hsen
reached. There docs not Yet exist Il
cour, OF nrbitI.zion -, ~, by all ns-
lions for ths.- sasesuardine OF peace III
the name ot justice. When rrcSidcn,
Wilson incicem,aIy says that the Ger.
man Chancellor is speaking TO the
court Of the entire world, ! must. as
things stand to-day in the name 81
the German empire and her allies, de-
cline this court as prcjudiccd. loytully
AS, I would greet IT il an impartial
court OF arbitration existed and gladly
ideats.
NO,TRACE OF SIMILAR
STATE OF MIND elsewhere
''Cnfortuna tely. however. there i. no
trace Of similar state ct mind on the
part OF the leading powers in the en-
tente Englands war aims. as recent.
Isl pr E sscd ia Lloyd Georges
speeches. arc still thoroughly i'm.
pcr!aiislic and want 20 impose On the
World reac@ according TO Eng
Eooo pleasure. When England talks
about peoples right OF self .determina-
ton. she doe not think al applying
the princinle to Ireland, Egypt or
India"
Declaring that the new German op-
erations agains, Russia were taken At
the request OF the populations 10 re-
store order, and that they did not aim
at ccaquests, the Cha icellor continued
Our var sIu!e from the beginning
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