The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-02-22

communicated TO me beforehand and
that ! was aware OF them at the time
he was uttering them, but In this am
sure he was misunderstood. / had re-
ceiyed no lntlmatiOn Of what he in
tended to say. There was, Of course,
no reason why he should communicate
privately with me. am quite content
TO be one OF his public audience.
HsrtIlne's Reply ls Vague.
Count Won Hertilng's reply is,
must say, very vague and very confus-
Ing. II IS full OF equiyocal phrases
and leads, IL is not clear, where. But
II Is certainly in a very different tone
from That o1 Count Czernin and appar-
emily Of an opposite purpose. IL con
firms, ! am sorry to say, rather than
removes, the unfortunate impression
made b. what we had learned Of the
conference at Brest. Lltovsk. His dis
cussiOn and acceptance Of our general
principles lead him to no practical
conclusion.
He refuses to apply them to the
substantive items which must constl-
tute the body of any final settlement.
He Is Jealous OF international action
and OF International counsel. He nc
cepts, he says, the principle OF public
diplomacy, but he appears to insist
that II be confined, at any rate I'm this
case, TO generalities, and that the sew
eral particular questions OF territory
and sovereignty, the several questions
upon whose settlement must depend
the acceptance Of peace by the %
states now engaged In the war, must
be discussed and settled, not In gem
erai council. but severally by the ma
lions most Immediately concerned by
Interest or neIghborhood.
Military Party Favored.
"He agreed that the seas should be
free, but looks askance at any lImita-
ton TO that freedom by international
action In the interest Of the common
order. He would without reserve 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
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 col
onles, he demands, must be returned
without debate. He win discuss with
no one but the Representatives of Rus
STA what dispositions shall be made
OF the peoples and thes lands OF the
Baltic provinces; with no one but the
government OF France the conditions"
under which French territory shall he
evacuated; and only with Austria
what shall be done with Poland
Cannot Accept Vienna Peace.
TN the determination of all cues
lions affecting the Balkan states he
defers as | understand him TO Aus
trla and Turkey; and with regard to
the agreements 20 be entered into con.
corning the non-Turkish peoples OF the
present Ottoman empire to the Turk.
lsh authorities themselves. After
settlement all around, effected In this
fashion, by individual barter and con.
NN"FNNNt AR WHAAh AaANN NO VlhltNIinu, II
l correctly interpret his statement, to
q league OF nations which would un-
dertake TO hold the new balance OF
power steady against external disturb
ances.
at must he evident to everyone
who understands what this war has
wrought In the opinion and temper of
the world that no general peace. no
peace worth the infinite sacrifices of
these years OF traglcal suffering, can
possibly be arrived at In any such
fashion.
Refers to the RelehstSg.
"The method the German chancel.
Tor proposes Is the method of the con.
gress Of Vienna. We cannot and will
not return To that. What Il at stake
now Is the peace of the world. What
we are striving for Is new interna-
tlonal order based upon broad and uni
versal principles OF right and Justice
no mere peace Of shreds and patches.
Is Il possible that Count Won uertllng
does not see that. does not grasp Il. Is,
| In fact, living In his thought In world
dead and gomez Has he utterly for
gotten the relehstag resolutions OF the
/ 10th OF July, or does he deliberately
| ignore them2 They spoke OF the con.
dltlons Of general peace. not OF ma.
/ tlonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or OF orange
ments between state aud state. The
peacc OF the world depends upon the
| Just settlement OF each of the several
| problems To which l advertcd In my
recent address to the congress. I, Of
| course, do not mean that the peace OF
the world depends upon the accept,
anee Of any particular set of sugges-
tlanS as 90 the way In which those
| pr,shtpfss are IN hs dealt with ,,,.,,,.,