New Britain herald., 1918-05-10
Singing Rebuke Administered to
Envoy by U. S. Citizen in Geneva
SENT ABOUT HIS BUSINESS
-Four "Planks'' All Favorable to
Continuation i'm Power of Prussian
Autocracy-Delegatc Claimed to
BE From Won Hcrtling.

London, May 10.-A story of how
an attempted German peace offensive
directed toward President Wilson
was turned down ignominiously by
Prof Heron, an American living in
Geneva, is told by the Swiss CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail in his dis
patch dated at Annemass on the
Swiss Franco border Prof. Heron
is described as a friend of the presi-
dent
The German government, accord
ing to the correspondent, tried to
get peace offers sent to the president
through Prof. Heron, who was vis-
tied on April 10 by Prof. Quidde of
Munich, a friend of Count Won Hert-
ling, the imperial German chancellor.
Prof. Quidde was accompanied by the
Dutch pacifst, DR.. Jong Van Beck.
Prof. Quidde said he had come to
prepare the way for merciful peace
and gave Prof. Heron to understand
that he spoke for Won Hertling and
the German foreign office. He as
sured the America professor that the
peace party in the Reichstag was
about to gain predominance in Ger
many and that he wished to prepare
President Wilson to take advantage
OF that auSplclOuS moment
Quidde's ''Peace Terms"
Germany, Quidde said, was willing
10 make the following terms:
L. TO grant autonomy to Al
sace-Lorraine within the limits
of the German empire, provided
the Allies would not broach the
subject of Alsace-Lorraine at
the peace conference.
2 The Brest-Litovsk peace
treaties not to be discussed at
the peace conference, although
the Allies might submit claims
for the revision of them and Ger
many might make certain conces-
sions
8. No economic war against
Germany after the war.
A. German colonies to be re-
stored
Prof Quidde asserted that the pres
ent offensive in France had the uti-
mate objective of achieving a durable
peace.
Prof. Heron, the Daily Nails cor
respondent writes, after listening to
the German educator, exclaimed:
81 wonder that you have the ef-
frontery to ask me to lay such q rig
marole of cant deceit before the
American people. Far from creating
a spirit of conciliaton, it would SIM
ply strengthen the American will to
smash the perfidious and nefarlous
offer of such proposals.
'The United States intends to con-
tinue the fighting until the Prussian
| military power-and, if necessary, the
Prussian state along with it's ex-
| tinguished forever as a power for evil
!, ,otI, ia or
'If you call the remorseless sacri-
| fee of 100000 men a peace often
| sive and if you want the United States
| to recognize your sheling Of Partisan
congregations and churches as part OF
| it, you are making a monstrous and
| foolish blunder.
when I listen to your false and
| treacherous overtures, 7 feel ashamed
| of humanity"
! Sweeping Out Augcan Stables Mt
Potsdam.
Prof. Quidde, adds the correspon-
dent, left the house weeping. The next
| week Prof. Heron was beseged by
| new offers by telephone, one Of the
| speakers saying he was DR.. w. S. Solf,
German colonial minister. Prof. Her.
| ron talked straight to all Of them,
| telling them, among other things, that
The United States no longer wants
| peace. 1t wants to sweep out the
| augean stables at Potsdam.''
| Prof. Heron the dispatch adds
| told the story to the correspondent
! and laughed triumphantly. He said
he believed the Germans were at last
| convinced that the United States in
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