The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-08
PRETEND TO ACCEPT
 PRESIDENTS PROPOSALS
Would Try to Shift the Responsibility on the Allied Nations Should the
 Propositions Made Be Rejected Sop is Handed to Italy and Poland.

Amsterdam, Get 7-Count T'isza has issued the following statement in regard to the peace proposition aG- dressed to President Wilson. "Bulgarla's treachcry and the sit uation on the western front lel Us to dedide. o1ether with Germany to undertake the peace step We have sent note to President Wilson an- nouncing our acceptance of his four teen points
 , "Ne will try SO far as possible tO grant autonomy to nationaltiee living in Hungary. Austrian territory won by Italy shall fall to Italy anu par,s of Galecia shall fall to new Poland Count Tisza added that steps haa been taken to guard against surprise on the Roumanian front.
 Subsequently the idea of establish ing an international court of arbitra- tion and reduction of armament was discussed and the principle of :he 1 freedom or the seas was proclaimed, and finally the principle was set forth that economic wars and economic op- precision after the war must be pre- vented Out of these guiding pgin- ciples arose the present peace pro gram
 "All these poiuts, it will be recalled. were accepted by Count Czcrnn (fomer Austrian foreign miuistcrj ia speeches and interviews as suitable basis for peace negotiations and T nally received the approval also 0 the German reichstag so that uni formity in the conception of the alle | (Teutonic) thereby found expression
 The followed the peace note Of | Pope Benedict whose proposals ara 1 fundamental ideas were accepted by US as forming an acceptable basis 1 Only President Wilson in his note of January S. 1918. in his fourteen points made proposals ana proclaimed prin- ciples whiCSl substantially accorded with the program of the central pow CTS
 Count Czernin and Count von tHersing described President Wilson's proposals, apart from reserve re- garding certain points, as a suitable basis for Hungarian peace The Aus tro-Iiungarian delesations and the l German reichstag have described their attitude toward these proposals in a similar manner It should be noted also that it was President Wilson who occupied himself with q concrete pro gram whle the entente adhered to it's 1 intentions Of conquest Then came
 Barion Burian's last prospect for a preliminary discussion by the bellig- erent powers.
 'rhe proposal was regarded by President Wilson, not however with the intention of cutting off peace dis
 cussions, because in his speech of September 27 he agan reverted to it and in an objective manner set forth
 the necessity of just peace a peace that would not be one sided, but just
 to both sides, and thus fulfill the principle of high justice to all 1 At this moment of the pr0clama- i ton of this principle of equal jusuce | for all parties. it became clear that it
 was impossible in this manner 10 come
 near attanlinin2 peace because the principle of the elimination of any one
 sided peace provides for the solution
 of group Of difficult questions.
 Tn the consideration of the further circumstances. that. owingN stear in
 ternal political condition /an Each Roo
 certain difficulties ..Sms n eqnlpped ,hn gi,1 Tor me way pecaEcT PHO
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