Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-11
ABSURD GERMAN
: peace PROPOSAL
SPURNED BY US
Cant and Deceit" Says
American Whom Teutons
Attempted to Use as Co.
Between in Negotiations.

London, May 10-A story of how
an attempted German peace offensive
directed toward President Wilson was
turned down ANONYMOUSLY BY Prof.
Heron, an American living in Geneva,
IS told by the Swiss correspondent Of
the Daily Mail in his dispatch dated
It Annemasse, on the, Franco-Swiss
frontier.
Prof. Heron is described as friend
Of President Wilson.
The German government, according
to the correspondent, tried to get
peace offers sent to the president
through Prof. Heron, who was visited
April l9 by Prof. Quidde of Munich,
I friend of Count Won Hertling, the
imperial German chancellor. Prof.
Quidde was accompanied by the
Dutch pacihst, DR.. Jong Vanbeek.
A Merciful Peace.
Prof. Quidde said he had come
to prepare the way for a merciful
peace and gave Prof. Heron to
understand that he spoke for Chan
cellor Won Hertling and the German
iolCiSu OHlCC.
He assured the American professor
that the peace party in the Reichstag
was about to gain predominance in
Germany and that he wished to pre-
pare President Wilson to take ad-
vantage of that auspicious moment.
Germany, Prof. Quidde said, was
willing to make the following terms:
First-To grant autonomy to Al
sace-Lorraine within the limits of
the German empire, provided the al
lies would not broach the subject of
Alsa~c-Lorraine at the peace confer
e1ce.
Russ Treaty Barred.
Second-The Brest-Litovsk peace
treaties not to be discussed at the
peace conference, although the allies
nigh. submit claims for the revision
of them and Germany might make
certain concessions.
Third-No economic war against
Viermany after the war.
Eourth-German colonies to be
restored.
Prof. Quidde asserted that the
present offensive in France had the
ultimate objective of achieving
durable peace.
Prof. Heron, the Daily Mail corre-
spondent writes, after listening to the
German educator, exclaimed:
Cant and Deceit.
Il wonder that you have the ef-
frontery to ask me to lay such a
rigmarole of cant and deceit before
the American people. Far from Great
ing ! spirit of conciliation, it would
simply strengthen the American win
to smash the per6dious and nefarious
offer of such proposals.
"The United States intends to con-
time the fighting until the Prussian
military power, and, if necessary. the
Pruss;an state along with it, is ex-
tingu;shed forever as power for evil,
whether it takes one year or ten.
Monstrous German Blunder.
If you call the remorseless sacri-
fee Of 100000 men peace offensive,
and if you want the United States to
recognize your shelling of Partisan
cong; cgations and churches as = part
Of it. you are making a monstrous
and foolish blunder.
when I listen to your false and
treacherous overtures, I feel ashamed
of humanity"
Prof. Quiddie, adds the eorre-
spondent, left the house weeping.
The, next week Prof. Heron was
besieged by new offers BY telephone,
one of the speakers saying he was DR..
w. S. Zolf, German colonial minister.
Prof. Heron talked straight to all of
them, telling them, among other
things, that: "The United States no
longer wants peace. 1t wants to sweep
out the Augean stables at Potsdam."