The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-12
BARON BURIAN's PEACE MANEUvER.


Inmates that if military victory by Germany and Aus
tra We're possible he would not suggest peace.
The bocheboshevst treaty contempates united action
against the allies and the Russian people In exchange
for the boshevt promise to oppose the allies the Muir
man coast Germany agrees to keep the Firms off the
boshevik. Germany also agrees not to rob murder
the Russian fishermen fishing in Russian waters but
the bolshevik must pay the Germans 6,OO0,OOO,00O
marks for this lapse into decency In general the treaty
paves the way for combined action by the Germans and
bolshevk against the Russian people and the allies who
are movin gto their rescue
Yet Baron Burian, with assumed judicial tone which
incompatible in its efrontery and hypocrisy gives
out through German newspaper in Vienna state
ment which insults both the intelligence and the honor
of the allied and oppressed nations. He begins by sug
costing that terrible blood and property losses must
occur 'before the end be reached by the military
overthrow of the enemy he alies if, indeed, this is
at all possible
Thus, few weeks after Foreign Minister Won Kueh-
Manu. of Germany is dismissed for saying that mill
ary decision the allies is impossible the foreign
minister of Austria Hungary says the thing Both
of them threw out this admission the indispensable
preliminary to peace propaganda. The jingoes Of Ger
many and Austria the junkers and the pan-Germans
must be convinced that they fighting losing game
before they will quit sacrificing Germans and Austrians
in battle. The military element of the two empires will
not tell the unkers this unwecome truth for with
sation of the war the military element would find its
p,r c;y;
ians must make the confession of military failure in
behalf of their governments.
Baron Burian proceeds to the ntmaton that the allies
fighting for imaginary things" and that there is
really great issue at stake, after ALL If the allies
would only perceive that they fighting for principles
which are not their own monopoly, and would admit
that they trying to regulate the affairs of other peo
pies who quite able to handle their own affairs all
would be we'll 1t is the same old Plea of the tyrant
Leave alone; attend to your business; know
how to treat my subjects much devoted to lib
erty in the abstract you are you have monopoly
of great ideals; but have domestic problems which
must work out without any meddling from YOU"
Having sugar coated this argument, Baron Burian
makes this direct plea for negotiation:
Our adversaries need only provide an oppor-
tunity in calm exchange of views-some sort
Of direct informative discussion is thinkabe
which would be far from peace negotiations
Of discussing and weighing everything which
todap separates the belligerent parties, and no
further fighting will, perhaps, be needed to
bring them closer together
Anniversaries" not enemies, mind you! informative
discussions" not peace negotiatons-Oh, no! Far be
from Baron Buran to suggest that actual peace nego
atons be instituted. No, not at alI-merely an ar
rangement by the allies whereby talking might be sub
sttuted for fighting, now that the fighting is going
against Germany and Austria; that is ALL
If the allied governments spokesman should take any
notice of this enemy srategem, they should take Baron
Burians words and them to emphasize the grim
fact that the will go on unt the end is reached
by the military overthrow of the enemy that the allies
are fighting for principle which is the monopoly of
free peoplesnamey, the principle of with
consent of the governed, principle unknown in Ger
many and Austria and repudiated by the criminal gov
ernments of those empires; that "drect informative
discussions" going on the information being
conveyed by shell, bullet bomb and bayonet that the
Teuton empires doomed that the allies share in the
desire to get "closer together" but prefer to accom-
plish this end the batteed and that if the German
Austrian forces will stand still instead of running there
will be delay in getting closer together and settling
the war;
The most glorious and successful peace negotiations
in the history Of mankind are now being conducted by
Marshal Foch and his generals and cantans and Gallant
soldier boys of the free nations Don't interrupt the
negotiations!-Wa Washington Post
An invention being perfected which, it is claimed
will restore SIGHT To men hlindad IN a.. as4 s0o.