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defers, if | understand him, to Aus ria
and Turkey. and with regard to the
agreements to be entered into con
corning the nOn-Turkish people of The
present Ottoman empire. 10 the Turk
tsh authorities themselves.
After a settlement all around, eff
ected in this fashion, by individual
barter and concession. he would lave
no objection, If I correctly interpret
his statement, to a league of nations
which would und 4rtake to hold the
new balance of pCsver steady against
external disturbance.
It must be evident to every one W o
understands what this war has
wrought in the opinion and temper
OF the world that no general peace,
no peace worth the infinite sacrifices
Of these wears Of tragical suffering
can possible be arrived at in such
fashion The method the German chan
Cellor proposes is the method of the
congress of Vienna.
We cannot and will not return to
that. What is at stake now Is the
peace Of the world. What We are
striving fer is new international
order. base1 upon broad and univer-
sal principles Of right and Justice
no mere raacn Of shieds and patcNes.
It is pOssih1e that Count Won Hertlirg
does not see that does not grasp 1t.
is fn fact living n his thought n
world dead and r~1c? Has he utterly
forgotten tho re.CHStag reso'ut; ;ons
Of fhp 1ofh af .Tu1v o. does re delihar-
afeIy iopC-c tNpm? Thov spoke o. 'e
conditions of general neace. no o.
nstfcnaI orro0 dfzemen- o. oF arran:-e-
r,e1ts between sta Q 2r1 state.
The neorn Of the v r1d deNFn "a
IN II, Tvs settlement Of each o?
ne several .r n. n.a 10 w~:ca al
vGGted in NJ r,@. III address to the
u II nf II
that the peace Of The wOsld dep ma.
upon the acceptance Of any set CT sug
gestiOnS as To the way III Whica those
problems are TO be dealt with. | mea}.
only thai those problems each and al
affect the whole world: that unleS
they are dealt with i'll a spirit OF un-
selfish and unbiased justice. with
view II the wishes, the natural COZ
nectiOns. the racial aspirations, tn
security and peace OF mind OF tnt
peoples involved. no permanent pee
will have been attained.
They cannot he discussed separately
or in corners. None of them zonsu
tute a private or separate interest
from which the opinion OF the word
may be shut out. Whatever affects
the peace affects mankind. and moth
ing settled By military force, if set
tied wrong, is settled at all. 1t Wi
presently have TO be reopened.
Is Count Won Hertling not aware
that he is speaking in the court OF
mankind, that all the awake e
nations of the world now sit in judg
ment on what every public man, o
whatever nation, may say on the is
sues of d conflict which has sprea
to every region of the world? Tne
reichstag resolutions of July them
selves frankly accepted the decision,
1ezafons ne inf5 so65 no nsi 09 no no pun M
tive damages. Peoples are not to b
handed about from one sovereign
to another by an international confe.
ence or an understanding hetwee-
rivals and antagonists.
National aspirations must be re
spected; peoples may now be dom.
mated and governed only by their ow.
consent. 'Selfdetermination" is no
principle of action. which statesmen
viii henceforth ignore at their pc i
We cannot have general peace for tIe
asking, or by the mere arrangement
offa peace conference. 1t cannot b.
pieced together out of individual un-
derstandings between powerful states
: All the parties to this war must 20 Ii
- the settlement of every issue any
seIs involved in it, because wha
soaking is a peace that we car
a4F unite to guarantee and mann ali.
arid every item Of it must be submit.
ted to the common judgment whether
it lbe righ and fair, an act of justice
rather than a bargain between sov
eTeignS.
The United States has no desire
interfere in European affairs or to act
aS arbiter in European territorial dis
pqtes. We would diSdaln to take ad
va ntage of any internal weakness o.
an other people She is quite ready to
be- shown that the settlements she has
suggested are not the best or the most
enduring. They are only her own pro
yisional sketch of principles, and o.
the way in which they should be ap
piled.
But she entered this war because
she was made a partner. whether she
would or not, in the sufferings and in
dignities inflicted by the military mas
ters of Germany, against the peace an
security Of mankind; and the condl
tiOns OF peace vii touch her as nearl
as they viii touch any other nation
to which is entrusted a leading pa
III the maintenance of civilization. she
cannot see her way to peace until l. h
causes of this war are removed, its
renewal rendered as nearly as may be
impossible.
This war had its roots in the dis!e
gard of the rights of small nations
and of nationalities which Lacked the
union and the force to make goot
their claim to determine their own al
legiances and their own forms of po
litical life.
Covenants must now be entered into
which will render such things imroS
sible for the future: and those cOven-
ants must be backed by the unlte7
force Of all the notions that love jIs
tice and a"e Wiil'n" to maintain II at
any cost.
if territoial settlements AMI the
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