Evening journal., 1918-02-11
NO WORLD Peace
ON CZERNIN BASIS
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ment involved in this war must bc
made in the interest and for the bene-
NJ of the populations concerned and
not as a part Of any mere adjustment
or compromise Of claims amongst riY-
al states; and
"Fourtb. That all well defined ma
tional aspirations shall be accorded the
utmost satisfaction that can be ac-
corded them without introducing new
or perpetualing old elements OF as
cord and antagonsm that would be
likely i'm time TO break the peace OF
Europe and consequently OF the
world. -,.,-,,
a GENERAL PEACE ERECTED
UPON SUCH FOUNDATIONS CAN bt
DISCU USSED" he said.
"We cannot turn back to the basis
which Count Hertling proposes.
America is ready to be shown that
The settlements she has suggested are
not the best. ,. 4. =,
Count Czernins reply, which IS di-
rected chiefly 10 my own address on
the eighth of January, is uttered IN
very friendly tone lie finds IN my
statement a sufficiently encouraging
appr6ach 10 the views Of his own gov
ernmcnt TO Justify him in believing thai
il furnishes a basis for "a more detalled
discussion Of purposes by the TWO gov
ernmenis
"Thc prime Minister Of Great Bri-
tain had spoken in similar terms. 10
these addresses the Gci man Lhancellor
replied on the 2ith and Count Lzernin'
for Austria. on the same day.
Czernin is represented to have inti-
mated that the views he was expressing
had been communicated to me before
hand and that I was aware Of them az
the time he was uttering Them nut III
/ This I am sure he was misunderstood
II had received no iniimali0n Of what ne
intended TO say. There was, or course
no reason why no should communicate
privately with me. ] am quite content
/ to be one Of his public audience.
Count Won Hertling's reply is, ] must
say. very vague and very confusing IL
! is fun Of equivocal phrases and leads us
somewhere, not clear. But 1t is certain
ly i'm a very different tone from that OF
Count Czernin and apparently OF an op-
posite purpose. 70 confirms, ] am sorry
10 say. rather than removes. the unior-
funate impression made by what ne had
learned of the conferences at Brest-
IIitovsk. His discussion and acceptance
of our general principles lead him TO
practical conclusions. lie refuses 10 ap-
plv them 10 the subsiantative items
which must constitute the body of any
final settlement.
He is Jealous Of action and interna-
ionai council. He accepts, he says, the
principle of public diplomacy, but he
appears TO insist that it be confined. at
any rate in this case. to generalities
and that the several particular ques-
tion of territory and sovereignty. the
several questions upon whose settle
ment must depend, the acceptance OF
peace by the twenty-lhrec states now
engaged in the war, must be discussed
and settled not in general council. but
scyerally by the nations most immedi-
/ ately concerned by interest or neigh
/ borhood He agrees that the seas
should he free but looks askance at
! any Limitation TO that freedom by inter
national action in the interest Of the
common order. lie would, without re-
serve. be glad TO see economic barriers
removed between nation and nation
for that could in no way impede the
/ ambitions of the military party with
whom he seems constrained TO keep on
/ terms.
"Neither does he raise objection 10
a Limitation Of ornaments. That mat
ter will be settled of itself he thinks,
by the economic conditions which
must follow the war. But the German
/ colonies he demands, must be return
ed without debate lie will discuss
with no one but The representatives Of
/ Russia what disposition shall be made
/ Of the peoples and the lands Of the Bal
/ tic provinces: with no one but the
government Of France the Conditions"
under which French territory shall be
eyacu ted and only with Austria what
shall be done with Poland Tn the
determination OF AN questions affecting
the Balkan states ne defers, as 7 UNI
derstand him, TO Austria and Turkey:
and with regard TO the agreement TO
be entered into concerning the nom
Turkish people Of the present ottoman
empire. 10 the Turkish authorities
themselves.
After a settlement affected by bar
ter and concession he would have no
objection, if correctly interpret his
statement. to a league Of nations which
would undertake TO hold the new bal
once Of power steady against external
disturbance
ut must be evident 20 everyone who
Understands what this war has wrought
in the opinion and temper Of the world
that no general-nO peace worth the
infinite sacrifices Of these years of trag-
ical suffering can possibly be arrived at
in any such fashion The method the
German Chancellor 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 for
is a new international order based
upon broad and universal principles OF
right and justice--no mere peace of
81 shreds and patches.
els it possible that Count Won Hert-
ling does not see that, does not grasp
it. in fact is living in a world dead
and eone lie has utterly forgotten
+. the Reichstag resolutions Of the 10Th
Of July, or does he deliberately ignore
them? They spoke Of the conditions
OF general peace, not of national az.
grandizemcnt or OF arrangements be
t~cn states and states The peace OF
the world depends upon shc just set
llement of each Of The several prob
lens DO which adverted in my reccr'
address TO the Congress. =, Of course
. do nos mean that the peace Of the
, world depends upon the acceptance OF
/ any particular set OF suggestions as
90 the way i'm which those problems