The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-02-15

spread to every region of the
world? The Reichstag resolutions
of July themselves frankly accepted
the decisions of that Court.
There shall be no annexations,
no contributions, no punitive dam
ages. Peoples are not to be handed
about from one sovereignty to an
other by an international confer
ence, or an understanding between
rivals and antagonists. National
aspirations must be respected;
peoples may now be dominated and
governed only by their own con-
sent
Standardization is not
mere phrase. 1t is an imperative
principle of action, which states
men will hencefOrth ignore at their
peril. We cannot have general peace
for the asking, or by the mere ar
fragments of peace conference. 1t
cannot be pieced together out of
individual understanding between
powerful states.
"All the parties to this war must
join in the settlement of every issue
anywhere involved in it, because
what we are seeking is peace that
we can unite to guarantee and
maintain, and every item of it must.
be submitted to the common judg-
ment whether it be right and fair,
6ain between sOvereigns.
THE United States has no desire
TO interfere in European affairs or
| to act as arbiter in European terri.
torial disputes. We would disdain
to take advantage of any internal
| " eakness or disorder to impose her
own will upon another people. She
is quite ready to be shown that the
settlements she had suggested are
not the best or the most enduring
They are only her own provisional
sketch Of principles, and of the way
in which they should be applied.
but she entered this war be-
cause she was made partner,
whether she would or not, in the
sufferings and indignities inflicted
by the military masters of Ger
many, against the peace and secur-
ity of mankind; and the conditions
of peace will touch her as nearly
as they will touch any other ma
ton to which is entrusted lead
ing part in the maintenance of civ
iliZation. She cannot see her way
to peace until the causes of this
war are removed, its renewal rem
dered as nearly as may be impOSSi
BILE.
This war had it's roots in the
disregard of the rights of small ma
} tons and of nationalities which
lacked the union and the force to
make good their claim to determine
. their own allegiances and their own
, forms of political life.
Covenants must now be entered
into which will render such things
[ impossible for the future; and those
) covenants must be backed by the
united force of all the nations that
f love Justice and are willing tc
: maintain it at any cost If terri
| torial settlements and the politica
: relations of great populations
{ which have not the organized pow.
} ler to resist are to be determined
: by the contracts of the powerful
Governments which consider them
+ selves most directly affected, a.
: Count Won Hertling proposes, VIII.
. "It has come about in the altered
n world in which we now find our
t selves that justice and the rights o
I peoples affect the whole field O
Y international dealing as much a
: access to raw materials and fai
a and equal conditions of trade
: Count Won Hertling wants tn
2 essential bases of commercial AM
e industrial life to be safeguarded b,
t common agreement and guarantee
but he cannot expect that to b.
conceded him if the other matter
;. to be determined by the articles Q
peace are not handled in the sam
way at items in the final account
: ing. He cannot ask the benefit Q
), common agreement in the one fel
" without according it in the other.
i II takelit for granted that b
- sees that separate and selfish CON
: pacts with regard to trade and tn
4 essential materials of manufactuI
e would afford no foundation fe
oi peace. Neither, he may rest assn
"a ed, will separate and selfish con
IN pacts with regard to provinces an
&c peoples.
~ Count Czernin seems to see tt
as fundamental elements of peas