The Washington herald., 1918-08-24
LODGE SOUNDS
PARTY SLOGAN
ASNEW LEADER
Succeeding the Late Sen.
ator Gallinger, Massachu-
sets Scion Gives Aims.
AGREES WITH WILSON
Demands Alsace Lorraine
for France. and Outlines
Other Peace Terms.

Senator E1tuTJ SdOOl L916Cs WV
will be selected leader Of the Republi-
can minority in the Senate today.
really assumed a national leadership
of his party yesterday in a speech on
what should be the war aims and
peace terms Of this nation. ---.
The Massachusetts, Senator demand
ed a knockout blow for Germany
IA defeat so crushing that IL viii
forever put an end to her ambitions
for world-dominion and render her
and her allies helpless to foment
trouble and disturb the peace Of the
world.
'.Alsace and Lorraine" he said.
must be returned to Franee-uncon-
ditionally returned-not merely be-
cause sentiment and eternal justice
demand 1t, but because the iron and
coal of Lorraine must be forever
taken from Germany
Then he made this further demand:
"Constantinople must be finally
taken away from Turkey and placed
in the hands of the allied nations as
a free port, 50 as to bar Germany 5
way 10 the East and hold the Darda-
neIles open for the benefit Of man
kind.
Must Not BE Beguiled.
We must not DC DckullCu AhNO
concessions to Turkey in the hope
of separating her from Germany.
II would be a miserable outcome to
have Turkey retained in Europe. q
curse to her subjects and neigheors.
a plague spot and a breeder of war.
Her massaeres must not under any
pretense be condoned. nor her In
iduities rewarded. Let Turkey and
bulgaria share the fate of their
master and be so treated that they
will be unable again to trouble thu
world"
The war aims and peace terms
proposed by Senator Lodge yester-
day following closely the fourteen
conditions laid down by President
Wilson in his address to the Con-
gress on January 8, last. These
conditions still stand as the aims Of
the Administration, although Presi-
dent Wilson later grouped them and
nut them forth as the basic condi-
tions under which a proposal for a
discussion of peace terms might be
entertained.
President Wilson said of Alsace-
Lorraine, as the eighth condition
laid down in his speech:
"All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re-
stored. and the wrong done to
France by Prussia in 1871 in the
matter of Alsace-Lorraine. which
has unsettled the peace of the world
for nearly fifty years.
Senator Lodge would drive Tur-
key out of Europe and bar Ger
many's way to the East. He would
also have Turkey and Bulgaria
share the sufferings of defeat as
the price Of their assault, with Ger
many. on the peace of the world.
President Wilson proposed a
league of nations for the security
and peace of the world. Senator
Lodge proposes a more drastic
course. He said:
Broadly speaking. there Is only
one way to obtain this security OF
the nations. this safety of democ-
racy, this preservation of freedom
and civilization. and that Is by re-
ducing Germany to a condition
whereby no possibility can she pre-
cipitate another war for universal
conquest, with all its attendant hor-
rors. upon an unofrending world.
Belgium to BE Restored.
Belgium must be restored.
Italia Irredenta-all those areas
where the Italian race is predominant,
including Trieste-must go back to
Italy.
Serbia and Rumania must be estab-
Hshed in their independence.
Greece must he made safe.
"Most important of all. if we are to
make the world safe in the way we
mean 1t to be safe, the great Slav
populations now under the govern
ment of Austria-the Jugo-Slavs and
the Czecho-Slovaks, who have been
used to aid the Germans. whom they
loathe-must be established as indie
pendent states.
THE Polish people must have an in
dependent Poland.
And We must have these in3e-
pendent states created so that they
will stand across the pathwaS of Ger
many to the East. Nothing is more
vital than this for a just. n righte Jus,
an enduring peace
THE Russian provinces taken from
Russia by the villainous peace OF
Brest-LitovSk must be restored to
Russia The President. as you all re-
member. has announced with wisdom
and foresight the vast Importance OF
sustaining Russia. II Germany con-
tinues to hold a large part OF Russia
the world for years to come will be
under the shadow of another great
war which will surely be 2rccipitated
upon US when Germany has developed
her Russian possessions to the point
OF yielding her men, money and sup