Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-27

tocratic government and a mass Of people without rights.
 And yet President Wilson khows- as, at any rate, the German edition of his book on the state proves.-Ger- man political literature, and he knows therefore that with it's princes and governments are the highest members of the rati9n as a whole, organized
 in the form of a state. the highest members, with whom the final decision lies. But, seeing that they also, as the supreme organs, belong to the
 whole, the decision is of such na-
 ture that only the welfare of the
 whole is the guiding line for a 'dec-
 sion to be taken. It may be useful expressly to point this out to Presi- dent Wilson's countrymen. Then, finally, at the close of the sec ond clause, the game of the balance Of
 power is declared to Be forever dis !. credited. We, too, can only gladly ap- 1, plaud AS is well known, it was Eng I land who invented the principle ef thn | CT. in order especially to apply i.i when one of the states on the Europ- 1 can continent threatened to become 1! too powerful for her. It was only an-i other expression of England's doanin i ation l
 .sThe third clause, according toi which every territorial settlement .in- l yolved in this war must be made ir ] 1 the interest and for the benefit Of thel populations concerned, and not as part of any mere adjustment or couypro- l | mise of claims among rival states, Isl only the application Of tfe fefegosngi I in definite direction. or a deductionl | from it. and is therefore included inI ! the assent given to that clause. "Now, in the fourth clause, lie de 1 mands that all well-definsd raffmall aspirations shah be accorded the ut-I most satisfaction that can be aceprd < ! ed them without introducing new or tperpetuating old clements of dis:erdl and antagonism that would be likely in time to sreak the peace of EaTopei and consequently of the world. Here, also, I can give assent in principle,
 and I declare, therefore, with 1Tesi-I dent Wilson, that general peace oni such a basis is discussabie.
 '4Onfy one reservation is to be made.
 These principles must not onlyI
 be proposed by the president of the United States alone, but l they must also me reeagniz -l
 ed definitely by all states and .natieas.' President Wilson. who reproacf1es thsi l German chancellor with a certain
 amount of baekwardness, seems to ne, in his flight of ideas, to have. hurried
 far in advance of existing realities.
 Certainly, league of nations erect led upon justice and mutual unselhsh Appreciation, a condition of humanity
 in which war together, with all that
 remains Of the earliest barbarisn Ishould have completely disappeared and in which there should be no bloody tsacrifces, no self mobilization of peo- lples, no destruction of laboriousiy ac- uuired values-that would De an aim
 devoutly to be desired.
 But that aim has not yet been reached. There does not yet exist a
 tions for the safeguarding of peace in the name of justice. When Pres ident Wilson incidentally says that the German chancellor is speaking 10 the l. court of the entire world, must, as things stand today, in the name of the German empire and hef allies de- :. cline this court as prejudiced, joyful , Fly as I would greet it. if an impartia! court of arbitration existed and glad , ly as I would cooperate to realize
 such ideals.
 . "tnfortunately however, there is no i trace of a similar state Of mind on the part of the leading powers in the , entente. Ensland's war sinns, as re- , gently expressed in Lloyd George . speeches. are still thoroughly i'm
 tperialistic and want to impose on the world a peace according to Engiand's ] about peoples right of self-deterrin aticn she does not think of applying the principle to Ireland, Egypt CT In q dia