Licking Valley courier., 1918-01-17
news review OF
The PAST week
PRESIDENT WILSON'S LUCID
STATEMENT OF AMERICAS WAR
AIMS AND PEACE TERMS.
PUTS The 0NUS ON GERMANY
BoIshevlk Make Peace With Bulgaria
and Resume Negotiations at 6rest-
litovsk-Snow Stops Teutons In
ltaIy-Secretary Bakers
Elaborate Defense.
BY EDWARD W. PIckAK6.

.
President Wllssfrs statement Of the
war aims of>4tinerlca, following and al
most Identical with that of PrenIer
Lloyd George, placed fatty before the
peoplelof the central powers the choice
-heHSeen a reasonable peace aud CON
tinuance of the war until they are
forced to accept the terms offered them
by victorious foes. Moreover, the
choice of the German government must
soon be made, for according to credible
reports from Europe the statements of
the president and the premier have
brought close to a crisis the political
dissenslon in the Fatherland and have
served to unmask the pan-Germans,
who demand, with threats, that the
kaiser shall align himself with them
for "strong peace" The socialists
stand as firmly as ever for demo-
cratic peace, and If Wilhelm sides
against them. he and the Prussian mill
tarists will have before them the i'm
possible task of making good with de-
cislve military victories over the armed
forces Of Great Britain, France and the
United States. If they fail, as fail they
must, II Is easy to predict n sweeping
revolution In Germany, but between
now and that event must intervene Il
long period Of bloody fighting. The
pan-Germans have no idea of yielding
tamely, especially II they are support
ed by the emperor, which seems likely.
In the main Mr.. Wilson's address CO.
lncided with that-of Mr.. Lloyd George
so far as the essentials of peace are
concerned He was n little more In
slstent on some points, a little less on
others; and he spoke more ut length
about Russia, expressing the deep
sympathy of America for the strug-
Cling people of that country and en-
couragng the bOlshevlki to stand firm
against the terms of German con
quest.
All through the program set forth
by the president, runs, as he said, the
principle of justice to all peoples ant
all nationalltles, and their right to live
on equal terms of liberty and safet!
with one another, whether they b,
strong or weak.
Just one Of the pence essentials al
stated by Mr.. Wilson met with som,
criticism In the United States, and tha
from certain Republican leaders. Thi
was the seetin calling for the "cstab
. llshment of an equality Of trade con
Editions opnonG ull the nations consent
, Inc 10 the ppacs ara essoclating then
( selves for IFS maintenance" II TIN
r means the ellmInation Of all tariffs,
o world free trade. say the RepubiCa
/. statesmen, they cannot assent TO H. A
# who were quoted concerning the me
!. sage declared II most timely, for the
), believe with the president that II
Is Isoral climax Of the war has come.
III The German press generally c0
In demns PRECEDENT Wilson's peace ain
ie as II did those sf Lloyd George, mo
u of the papers calllnI his program u
ir terly Impossible, especially us regar,
st Alsace-LorrOlne, the internal aGairs
d. Austria-Hungary and the partition,
Turkey.
Peace Conference Resumed.
Apparently backing water, the RI
u Sian delegates, headed by Trotzky hi
Or self returned to Brest-Lltovsk on tn,
ie day and resumed the peace negot
n, tlons with the central powers. L
ys fore departing from Petrograd the HI
es shevih foreign minister expressed /
d. deep suspicion Of the motives OF [
n. entente allies, declaring they want
u. Germany TO make an advuntageo
70 separate pence with Russia so q,
50 many would be more willing to 81
n render what the nllles want IN {
a. west. incidentally. Trotzky repeat
%. the story that 5000 German troups