Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-27
ANNFXATIONOF
RUSSIANLANDS
NOTHUNDES|RE
German Chancellor Won
Hertling Talks on Ger
many's Peace Aims Before
Reichs.; Evasion Keynote.

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AMSTERDAM, Feb. 26.-The follow
ing is a formal report of Chancellor
Won Hertling speech yesterday in tie
Reichstag:
The Reichsiag has a right To re-
ceive an expiaastory statement in re-
gard to the lO.eign situation and the
attitude of ,vnrnment concerning Il.
viii meet he obligation arising
therefroln, even though entertain cey-
tain doubts ac 10 the utility AMI SIC
cess of dialogues carried on by minis
ters and Statesmen of belligeren. cDdn-
tries.
Mr.. Runcima1 in the house Of con-
mons recently expressed that opinion
that we should get much nearer peace
if instead of thls. responsible rerresen
tatives of the ke:iigerent powers w00ld
come together IL an intimate meeting
for discussion l can only agree WITH
him that that would be the way TO re-
move numerous international and un-
international understandings and CON-
pei our enemies to take our worsis as
they are meant. and on their parJ also
to show their COlors. | cannot az any
rate discover tnat the words which
spoke here or two occasions were re-
ceived in hostile countries abjeCrively
and without prejudice. Moreover. dis
cussion in an intimate gstheriEg
would lead to an understanding of ma
ny individual questions which can be
settled by cOiaeromise.
PROPOSAL Welcome
1t has been repeatedly said that We
do not contemI late retaining Belgium
but that we must be safeguaried hrom
the danger OF a country with which We
desire after tic war to live in peace
and friendship ecoming the object or
the jumping Off Pround of enen.y mach
/ nations.
~If, therefore. proposal came from
/ the opposing side, for example. from
/ the governmen ent in Havre. We should
not adopt an antagonistic attitude ev-
en- though the discussion at first
might only be unbindin$
Meanwhile. IL does not appear as
if Mr.. RunciI1en's suggestion mas a
chance of assuming tangible shape.
and | must aGhsTe to the existing meth
DDS of dialogue across the charnsl and
ocean.
Adopting this method. readily adj
nit that President WilsOls message
of the 11th represents perhaps a small
step toward a mutual reapproachment.
l therefore p9ss over the preliminary
and excessively long declaration IN or
der to address myself to the four pIin-
ciples which, IN President W:is;In's
opinion must be applied in a mutual
exchange of vi'ws.
Says Phrase is Old
/ The first clause saws that each part
of the final settlement must be based
upon essential justice OF that paIIlcu-
lar case. and such adjustments are
most likely to bring a peace tnat viii
be permanent
who wou i contradict this The
phrase coined by the great father cf
the Church ALgustin, fifteen aundre1
years agO-iusatia fundamentum reg
norum'-is still, valid today. Certain
( it is that On,y peace based in ell its
parts on the principles of justice has
a prospect of endurance.
The second clause expresses the
desire that peoples and provinces shall
not be bartered about from sovereign
! ty to sovereignty as il they were mere
chattels and pawns in a game. even
7 the great game, now forever discredit-
ed, of the balance of power.
This clause. too, can be unc Irii-
tiOnally assented to. Indeed one woL-
ders that the president of the United
States considered to use it anew.
This clause contains a polemic
against conditions long vanished.
views against cabinet politics. and cab
met wars. against a mixing state ter
ritory and principally and privately
which belongs to a past that is far be
hind us.
Il do not want to be discourteOus
but when one remembers the earlier
utterances OF President Wilson. one
might think that he is laboring Under
the illusion that there exists in Ger
many an antagonism between an auto
cratic government and a mass OF peO-
pie without rights.
Puts Blame on England
And yet President Wilson knows
at at any rate, the German edition OF
his book on the state proves-German
political literature and he knows,
therefore, that with us, princes and
government are the highest members
of the nation as a whole. organized in
the form OF a state. the highest mem.
bers of whom with which the final de
cision lies. But, seeing that they also
as the supreme organs belong TO the
whole. the decision is of such a nature
that only the welfare of the whole is
the guiding line for a decision to be
taken. Il may be useful expressly 10
point this out to President Hilson S
cOuntrymen.
Then finally. at the close Of the sec
ond clause. the game of the balance OF
power is declared to be forever dis.
credited. We, too. can only gladly ap
plaud. AS is well known. it was Eng
land who invented the principle OF
maintenance OF the balance OF power