The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-10-25
Text Of Wilson's
Reply to GERMANY

! WASHINGTON, Oct "a. Secretar
OF State Lansing last night delvere,
to, the Swedish Minister in Washing
ton the following reply to Germany:
From the Secretary of State to tn,
charge de affaires ad interim il
charge of German interests in the
United States
Department of State, Oct, %, 1918
"Sir:
i have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt Of your note of the 22nd
transmitting a communication under
date of the Goth from the German
Government and to advise you that
the President has instructed me to
reply theerto as follows:
Having received the solemn and
explicit assurance of the German
Government that it unreservedly ac-
cepts the terms of peace laid down
in his address to the Congress of the
United States on the Sth of January,
1918, and the principles of settlement
enunciated in his subsequent adj
dresses, particularly the address of
the twenty-seventh of September, and
that it desires to discuss the details
OF their application, and that this wish
and purpose emanate. not from those
who have hitherto dictated German
policy and conducted the present war
on Germanys behalf, but from min |
listers who speak for the majority of
the Reichstag, and for an overwhelm- I
ing majority of the German people;
and having received also the explicit
promise of the present German Gov
eminent that the humane rules of
warfare will be observed,
both on land and sea by the German
armed forces, the President of the
United States feels that he cannot
lecline to take up with the Govern
nents with which the Government of
he United States is associated the
question of an armistice.
He deems it his duty to say again.
owever that the only armistice he
7onld feel justified in submitting for ;
would be one which ;
hould leave the United States and ,
he powers associated with her in a {
osiiton to enforce any arrangements +
lat may be entered into and to make i,
renewal of hostilities on the part .
Germany impossible The Presi- >
ent has therefore, transmitted his j
with the present Ger, >
ian authorities to the Governments n
With which the Government of the >
nited States is associated as a bel +,
serent with the suggestion that, if ~
lose Governments are disposed to eff !
ct peace upon the terms and princi- X
es indicated, their military advisers a
Id the military advisers of the Unit
States be asked to submit to the a.
oyernments associated against Ger
any the necessary terms of such an q
mistice as will fully protect the in
rests of the peoples involved and
sure to the associated Governments
e unrestricted power to safeguard
Id enforce the details of the peace
which the German Government has q
reed, provided they deem such an "
mistice possible from the military
int of view. Should such terms of
mistice be suggested, their accept
ce by Germany will afford the best fl
ncrete evidence of her uneuuivocal n
ceptance of the terms and principles nc
peace from which the whole action va
oceeds ia
"The President would deem him. as
If lacking in candor did he not point
t in the frankest possible terms
9 reasons why extraordinary safe
ards must be demanded. Signifi-
Mt and important as the constitu-
nal changes seem to be which are
oxen of by the German Foreign Nj
cretary in his note of the TWEEN dc
tn of October, it does not appear hi,
1t the principle of a government AID
'ponsible to the German people has th
been fully worked out or that any hi,
grantees either exist or are in con- Ga
nplation that the alterations of prin-
lie and of practice now partially
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