Arizona republican., 1918-10-24
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY

Sir have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your of the 22nd transmitting communication under date of the aoh from the German government and to advise you that the pre dent has instructed me to reply thereto as follows:
 Having received the solemn and explicit of the German that unresevedy accepts the peace laid his address the congress of the United S day of January IoS and the principles of settlement enuncae in his subsequent addresses particularly the address of the 2h of September and that desires discuss the details of their appca tion and that this wish and purpose enanaed from those who have hitherto dictated German policy and conducted the Germany behalf but from ministers who speak for the majority of the rechstag and overwhelming majority the German peoples having received also the explicit promise of the present German government that the humane rules of civilized will be observed both land and by the German armed forces the president United States feels that he cannot decline take up with the governments with which the government of the United States associated, the question of an armstice.
 MUST LEAVE ALLIES FREE TO ACT
 He it his duty, say again. however that the only armisce he would feel justified in submitting for consideration would which should leave the United States and the powers with her position enforce any arrangements that may be entered and make renewal of oe the part Germany impossible The president has, therefore, transmitted his correspondence with the present German authorities the gov with which the government of the United States aocat ed belgerent with the suggestion that if those governments disposed effect the terms and principles indicated their advisers and the military advisers the United States asked the governments associated against Germany the necessary of such amce will fully protect the
  erents the power safeguard and enforce the de- tails peace which the German government has agreed pro- vded they deem such armscc possible from the military point of view.
 PRESIDENT WRITES WITH CANDOR
 Should such of arisc be suggested their acceptance will the best evidence of her unequvoca acceptance the and principles of peace from which the whole action proceeds.
 The president would deem himself lacking andor, did he point in the ankest possible terms the that extra ordinary safeguards must be demanded Significant and important the constitutional changes to be- which spoken Of by the foreign secretary his the 2o does appear that the principle of government responsible to the German people has been fully worked that any guarantees either exist contemplation that the alterations of principle and practice partially agreed will be Moreover does that the heart of the present difficulty has been reached It may be that future have been brought under the control of the German people, but the has been and with the present war that we are dealing
 POWER OF KAISER IS UNIMPAIRED
 It evident that the German people have of mandng the of the military authorities of the empire the popular will that the of the king of Prussia control the policy of the unpared that the determining nia tive still remains with those who have hitherto been the of Germany Feeling that the whole peace of the world depends plain speaking and straightforward acon the president deems his duty without soften what harsh words that the nations of the world do and the word those who have hitherto been the of German policy point that concluding attempting undo the infinite injuries and njuce of this the govern of the United States deal with but vertabe repre- senatves of the German people who have been assured of genuine constitutional standing, the real rulers of Germany If deal with the military and the monarcha Ger many likely have deal with them later regard the international obligations of the German empire de- mad negotiations but surrender Nothing be by leaving this essential thing unsad -&
 Accept Sir the renewed of my high condera- 
 (Signed) ROBERT LANSING" .
 Mir. Frederick Oederlin,
 Charge Affaires of Switzerland ad interim
 In charge ot German interests in the United States