The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-08-27
SAYS GERMANY WON'T
MISUSE POWER IN EAST
German Secrets s. =, So, the

IS quoted as follows:
1.-THE German government Is fully
resolved not to misuse the protection
which has been asked for and which
! has been granted because forcible
annexation would bar the way now
open to oppressed peoples-the road
to freedom. order and mutual toler-
ance."
DR.. Solf. who was speaking before
the German society, continued:
"The imperial chancellor declared
last month in the reichstag that we
do not intend to retain Belgium in
any form whatever. Belgium shall
arise again after the war as an in
dependent state. a vassal to no one.
Nothing stands in the way Of the re-
storation Of Belgium but the enemy's
will to war"
Referring to the recent address by
A. j. Balfour, British secretary Of
state for foreign affairs, DR.. Solf de-
clared Mr.. Balfour's accusation
against Germany demanded a reply
and continues:
Mr.. Balfour asserts that intellect
ual Germany Is dominated by the
mailed fist doctrine. Here there are
Chauvinistic jingoes, people who
worship the eternal yesterday and
anxiously and without understanding
wait the approach of a new era Be-
fore the war these people formed a
small group without political infiu-
fhn
stantly combatted them. During the
war, their number, indeed, increased,
not because of the struggle for Ger
man supremacy in the world had Ia
ken deeper root, but because their
ranks were swelled by numerous
sober and solicitous patriots.
Amongst these are many who be-
fore the war held high ideals about
an understanding Of peoples, good
will and fair play In international re-
lations, but whose political creed
broke down under the experience of
the war.
where does the blame lie? No
where but in the spirit which ami
mates our enemies, that spirit which
Is dishonor and has turned to
scorn the grand ideal of a league OF
nations by simultaneous demand
for commercial war against Ger
many.
If believed that the spirit which
at present seems to prevail in Eng
land and which speaks clearly in Mr..
Balfour's speech and which was
manifested against us in the Penn
berton-Billing case, if 1 had to be-
lieve that this spirit would always
have the upper hand in England.
then 1 also would advocate that the
war should be fought to the death.
Il am, however, firmly convinced
that before the end of the war comes.
an intellectual revulsion must and
will supervene against this knock
out spirit, Otherwise the realiza-
tion of league Of nations remains
a Utopian war aim"
Referring to Mr.. Balfour's sec
ond charge" he said:
"This Is directed against our east
ern policy. To this 1 reply that the
Brest-Litovsk peace came about by
q, sreement between the Russian and
German governments that the from
tier peoples OF Russia after centu-
ries of oppression should be per-
mitted to live their own national life, !
for which object they had been
striving. This agreement on the
fate of the border peoples Ia a fact
OF world Importance which never can
be erased from history.
England forfeited the right to
act as moral champion Of the Rus
sian border states in their unparaI-
leled time Of suffering. During the
war they repeatedly appealed to !
England for help. 1t was always
denied them"
He declared that England's atti- /
tude towards Russia was merely sell
fish, saying: Were Ivan the Ter
rible to rise to weld Russia together
again he would be a welcome ally to
England in her crusade for freedom
and right.
THE recognition OF the Czecho-
Slovaks-those landless robber
bands-as an allied power is the log
ical keystone of the singular struc-
ture of AngloRussian friendshiHk |
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