Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-02-12

conferences at Brest-LitOysk. His dis
cussiOn and acceptance of our general
principles lead him TO no practical con-
clusiOns
He refuses TO apply them to the
substantiate items which must cOnsti-
tute the body OF any final settlement
He is jealous of international action
and international counsel He accepts
he says, the principle OF public diplO-
macy, but he appears to insist that II
be confined. at any rate in this case.
TO generalities and that the several
particular questions of territory and
sovereignty, the several questions up
on whose settlement must depend the
acceptance of peace by the % states
now engaged in the war must be dis
cussed and settled. not in general
council, but severally by the nations
most Immediately concerned by inter
est or neighbOrhOOd.
Agrees Seas Should be Free
He agrees 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 remov-
ed between nation and nation, for that
could in no way impede the ambitions
of the military party with whom he
sees constrained to keep on terms.
Neither does he raise objection to
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 de-
mands, must be returned without de-
bate. He viii discuss with no one but
the representatives of Russia what dis
positions shall be made of the peoples
and the lands of the Baltic provinces;
with no one but the government %
! France the conditions under which
( French territory shall be evacuated;
and only with Austria what shall be
done with Poland.
In the determination of all ques-
I tons affecting the Balkan states he
/ defers. as | understand him. to Aus
tria and Turkey; and with regari 10
J the agreements TO be entered into con-
corning the non-TUrkish peoples of the
present Ottoman empire to the Tur-
kish authorities themselves.
! No Objection to League
After a settlement all around. ell
/ fected in this fashion. h individual par
! ter and concession, he would have No
, objection. if | correctly interpre- his
statement 10 a league OF nations that
{ would undertake to hold the new bal
ance of power steady against external
disturbances
1t must be evident TO everyone who
understands what this war has
I wrought in the opinion and temper OF
the world that no general peece, NJ
: peace worth the infinite sacrifices Of
! these years of tragical suffering. can
possibly be arrived at in any such fash
ion.
The method the German chancellor
I proposes Is the method OF the con
7 gress OF Vienna We cannot and viii
not return TO that What is az sake
now is the peace Of the world What
we are striving for is a new iHterna-
tional order based upon a broad and
universal principle OF right ana JUS
tice-no more peace of shreds AID
patches.
is il possible that Count Won iIert
ling does not see that. does no; grasg
il. Is in fact living in his thought in a
world dead and gomez Has h. utterly
Z forgotten the Reichstag resolutions OF
The 18th Of July. or does he deliberate
" ignore them They spoke of the
conditions of general peace, not OF
national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or Of arrange
ments between state aud state
The peace of the world depercs NJ.
on the just settlement Of each Of the
several problems 10 which ! adverted
in my recent address To the congress
! /. Of course. do not mean that the
peace OF the world depends uUon sc.