Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-23
WARNING AGAINST .INSIDIOUS
AND POISONOUS PEACE TALK
FROM GERMANS GIVEN BY LODGE
Peace Propaganda. Must be
Dictated to and not Ne
gotia@ted With Huns, De
clares Senator from Mass
achusetts.

earnest warning against I'm.
sidious and poisonous German
peace propaganda and q dec!a- Il
ration that peace must be die
tated to and not negotiated with
Germany to place her insl posi-
ton where she never again can
disturb the world peace, were
made in the senate today by
Senator Lodge OF Massachusetts,,
ranking Republican of the for
eign relations committee. 81
Peace terms which must and will
be forced on Germany" were spe-
officially detailed by Senator Lodge.
in addressing the senate in support
of the man-power bill to extend the
army draft ages. They included
complete restoration Of Belgium.
raine to France, and Of Italia lire
denta to Italy, safety for Greece, in
dependence for Serbia and Ru-
mania, an Independent Poland, inde-
pendence Of Slav peoples and free
dom of Russia from German domi-
nation, including return, of Russian
territory wrested by Germany in the
Brest-L -Litovsk treaty: @
Furthermore Senator: Lodge de-
free port and Palestine never re-
stored to Turkish rule.
'"These are the principal condt-
TONS he said, which will give a
victory worth having. No peace that
satisfies Germany can ever, satisfy US.
It cannot be a negotiated peace. It
must be dictated speace and we and
orr Allies must ictate 81 ~
IT Will Attempt Peace Drive. f
Germany undoubtedly win attempt
strong peace drive when she feels
victory is. slipping from her. grasp,
Senator Lodge asserted in solemnly
yielding until Germany. is "beaten to
her knees" and such peace en-
forced by dictation that will remove
her forever as a possible disturber Of
the worlds peace.
The Germans, repulsed and -os-
Ing" said Senator Lodge, will un-
doubtedly resort to their other
than once during this war with ter
rible effect. They will begin an in
sidious and poisonous peace propa-
ganda. With this weapon they have
succeeded in dssorganizing Russia.
1t is the German propaganda which
we shall be obliged to face in the en-
suing, months and tt, therefore seems
exactly what we . mean by pc; ce.
Generalities will not serve. 1t must
be. it is commonly said-we have all
said it-a just and righteous peace.
( But what is just and righteous
peace? Welintend to make the world
safe for democracy. But what ex-
actly do we mean by democracy? II
we mean. as we undoubtedly do. the
democracy Of England, France, italy
and the United States. we can all
understand it: but the BolsheviA
masquerade under the: name of de-
mocracy and the Bolsheviki. by a
combination Of treachery, corruption
and ignorance, have reduced Russia
to servitude under Germany and have
engendered form of democracy as
dangerous to the world as the gov
ernment OF Hohenzollerns."
& '.But we seem to shrink from the
responsibility Of taking men below
81" the senator added. .4"Remember
we must get men. not votes"
Senator Pomerene Of Ohio opposed
drafting of IS year. old boys and an
alyzed man power statistics of General
March and Provost Marshal General
Crowder. in an effort to prove,it un-
Before taking boys, Senator Pome-
rene said. the government should; &c
into existing deferred, classes which,
he complained, are being treated ais II
exempt instead Of merely. deferred
Thousands of men could be secured
by reclassification, he declared, and
but $50 900 would have to come from,
+ deferred classes to complete the pro.
gram. - Fl y #
s A number Of Iwome en- IN the gallerie.
applauded Senator Pom creme when he
said he would not support a plan to
take 1s year old boys until greater
necessity was shown. 'l Ss
Must Be Independent. 3
Most important Of ALL" Senator
Lodge continued, II we are to make
the world safe. the great slav popu-
lations now under the government of
Austria-the Jugo Slavs and the
Czecho -Slovaks. d who have been, used
to aid the Gerrma.r1s i whom they
pendent states. The Polish people
must have an independent Poland. ,s:
..And we must have these inde-
pendent states created SO that they
viii stand across the pathway, OF
Germany. to the east. IA hing X 10
1 more vital than this for b jIst.
Y righteous and an enduring peace.
The: president has n ANNOUNCED the
vast Importance OF sustaining Rus.
: sia. 1t Germany continues TO hold
q large part OF Russia, the world FOL
+ years to come will Ii be under ths
shadow OF ther great war: Wal
will surely be upon Us when Ger
I. many has developed her #R Russian pos
session III the point q Welding mel nss
4 !; men, money and supp s5 10 Z!
u ..T.on "a iftfnoDle rallet Ri be I. finally
taken away from Turkey ahd placed
iu' the hands Of the ll.eti tons sat
& & free port so as to- bar Germany't
4 - 3 n, ! the east and hold the Lar