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dled in the same way as items in the final accounting. He cannot ask the benefit of common agreement in the one field without according it in the other. l take it for granted that he sees that separate and selfish com pacts with regard to trade and the es- sential materials of manufacture would afford no foundation for peace. Neither, he may rest assured will separate and selfish compacts with re- gard to provinces and peoples.
 Austria Bound to All.
 Count 'Czernin seems to see the fun damental elements of peace with clear eyes and does not seek to obscure them. He sees that an independent Poland, made up of all the indisputa- bly, Polish peoples, who lie contiguous to one another. is matter of Euro pean concern and must of course be conceded in; that Belgium must be evacuated and restored, no matter what sacrifices and concessions that may involve: and that national aspir- ations must be sacrificed, even within his own empire, in the common inter- est of Europe and mankind. If he is si- lent about questions which touch the interest and the purpose of his allies more nearly than they touch those of Austria only, it must, of course, be because he feels constrained, l sup pose, to defer to Germany and Fur key in the circumstances. Seeing as he does the essential principles in- volved and the necessity of candidly applying them he naturally feels that Austria can respond to the purpose of peace as expressed by the United States with less embarrassment than can Germany. He would probbly have gone much further had it not been for the embarrassment of Aus tria's alliance and of her dependence upon Germany.
 Principles of Peace.
 After all, the test of whether it is possible for either government to go any further into this comparison of views is simple and obvious. The principles to be applied are these:
 First. That each part of the final settlement must be based upon the es- sential justice of that particular cause and upon such adjustments as are most likely to bring peac ethat will be permanent.
 Second. That peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty, as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a game even the great game, now for ever discredited, of the balance of power, hut that
 Third Every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made Tn the interest of and for the benefit of the population concerned and not as a part of any mere adjustment or conn promise of claims amongst rival states, and,
 Fourth That all we'll defined na- tional aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them, without introducing new or perpetuting old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely, in time, to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world
 Germany Blocks Way.
 A general peace erected on such foundations can be discussed. Until such a peace can he secured we have no choice but to go on. So far as we can judge, these principles that we re- gard as funmadental are already everywhere accepted as imperative ex- cept mong the spokesmen of the mili- tary and annexationist party in Ger many. If they have anywhere else been rejected, the objectors have not been sufficient nlyumerous or int1uen- tial to make their voices audible. The tragical circumstances is that this one party in Germany is apparently will ing and able to send millions of men to their death to prevent what all the world now sees to be just.
 would not be true spokesman cf the people of the United States if l did not say once more that we entered this war upon no small occasion and that we can never turn back from a course chosen upon principle. Our resources are in part mobilized now and we shall not pause until they are mobilized in their entirety. Our armies are rapidly going to the battle front and will go more and more rap idly. Our whole strength will be put into this war of emancipatlon-eman- cipation from the threat and attempt ed mastery of selfish groups of auto cratic rulers-whatever the difficult ties and present partial delays. We are indomitable in our power or inoe- pendent action and can in no circum- stances, consent to live in world governed by intrigue and force. We believe that our own desire for a new international order under which req son and justice and the common inter- ests of mankind sha,l prevail is the desire of enlightened men everywhere. Without that new order. the world will be without peace and human life will lack tolerable conditions Of eX- istence and development. Having set our hand to the task of achieving it we shall not turn back.
 Is No Threat.
 I hope that it is not necessary for me to add that no word of what I have said is intended as threat That is not the temper of our people. I have spoken thus only that the whole world may know the true spirit of America-that men everywhere may know that our passion for self-gov- ernment is no mere passion of words but passion which. once set in ac-