The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-11

T.. Each part OF the final SET
Element must be based on essen
tial justice to bring q permanent
peace.
g. Peoples and provinces are
not to be bartered about Ike
chattels to establish balance Of
power.
g.. Territorial settlements must
be for the benefit of people con-
cerned and not merely adjustment
of rival states claims.
f.. Well defined national as
piration must be accorded all
possible satisfaction.
| "a general peace on such founda-
lions can be discussed" said the
President. Until such a peace can be
obtained we have no choice but to
go on
These general principles, the Presl.
dent said, have been accepted by
every one except the military auto
Gratis in Germany.
President Wilson spoke as follows:
"Gentlemen of the congress: On
the 8th of January I had the honor
of addressing you on the subjects Oh
the war as our people conceive them.
The prime minister of Great Britain
had spoken in similar tayms on the
9Th of January. To these addresses
the German chancellor replied on the
Gath and Count Czernin for Austria
on the same day. It is gratifying to
have our desire SO promptly realized
that all exchanges of view on this
great matter should be made in the
hearing of all the world.
Count Czernin's reply, which
directed chiefly to my own address, on
the Sth of January, is uttered IN
very friendly tone.
"He finds in my statement a sufn-
GENTLY encouraging approach to the
views of his own government to 1ustl-
fy him in believing it furnishes a pa
sis for a more detailed discussion OF
purposes by the two governments. He
is represented to have intimated tha
the views he was expressing had peer
communicated to me beforehand ane
that was aware of them at the time
he was uttering them; but in this
am SIRE he was misunderstood.
had received no intimation of wha
he intended to say. There was, o.
, course, no reason why he shoule
, communicate privately with me.
, am quite content to be one of hi
J public audience.
Count Won Hertling's reply IS,
! must say, very vague and very con
. fusing. It is full of equivocal phrases
and leads it is not clear where. Blu
it certainly in a very different tom
from that of Count Czernin and ap
parently of an opposite purpose. L
confirms I am sorry to say, rathe
. than removes, the unfortunate i'm
r preston made by what we had learn
ed of the conferences at Brest-Litovsk
His discussion and acceptance of gu
u general principles lead him to n
= practical conclusions. He refuses t
y apply them to the substantive item
: which must constitute the body of an
y final settlement. He is jealous of in
a ternational action and of internationa
, council. He accepts, he says, the pr1n
Il. ciple of public diplomacy, but he ap
pears to insist that itbe confined a
any rate in this case, to generalitie
and that the several particular ques
lions of territory and sovereignty, tn
y several questions on whose settlemer
must depend the acceptance of peac
by the 23 states now engaged in tn
n war, must be discussed and settled
n not in general council but several
l. by the nations most Immediately cor
d. cerned by interest or neighborhooC
Is He agrees that the seas should be FIRE
n but looks askance at any limitation
lie that freedom by international actio
he in the interest of the common orde
OF He would without reserve be glad
lg see economic barriers removed BIZ
10 tween nation and nation, for thu
could in no way impede the ambition
of the military party with whom /
seems constrained to keep on term
Neither does he raise objection to
H. limitation of ornaments. That matte
s. will be settled of itself, he thinks, /
I'd the economic conditions which mu
s. follow the war. But the Germa
ms colonies, he demands, must be return
On ed without debate. He will discu
ce with no one but the Representative
es of Russia what disposition shall
r made of the peoples and the lands
or the Baltic provinces; with no one b
ms the government of France the 'cond
AT tons under which French territol
ne shall be evacuated; and only with Au
tria what shall be done with Polan
- In the determination of all questiO,
affecting the Balkan states he defer
as l understand him, to Austria al
10, Turkey; and with regard to the agre
nd ments to be entered into concernil
the non-Turkish people of the prese
he Ottoman empire, to the Turkish a
he thorities themselves. After a settl
rs ment all around, effected in this fas
I'm ion, by individual barter and conce
TN sion, he would have no objection, if
correctly interpret his statement, to
ry. league of nations which would undo
take to hold the new balance of po'
eb. az s+aod,, .o,oi,,e+ a,,+arno1 d;s+urbo n,
tin r... :,
understands what this war h
-, wrought in the opinion and temper
80 the world that mo general peace,
~ peace worth the infinite sacrifices
-, these years of tragical suffering, C
m; 3 possibly be arrived at IN any 81
fashion The method the Germ
M chancellor proposes is the method
- the congress of Vienna. We canr
and will not return to that. What
. at stake now is the peace of
cd WORTH w IldI VIC ehAS ms III
lal- a. new international order based
.nri broad and universal principles
les right and justice-no mere peace
+, the ne shreds and patches. 1t is possible Il
Count Won Hertling does not see tn
does not grasp it, is in fact living
- his thought in a world dead and go
Has he utterly forgotten the reit
stag resolutions of the 18th of Ju
or does he deliberately ignore the