Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-30
Text of Presidents Note

/ Text of Presidents Note
the Secretary state to the charge daffars ad In
ter in charge of German interests the United States
. Department of State, October 20, 1918
M , have the honor to acknowledge the receipt Of note
from the German and to advise you that the
dent has instructed me to reply thereto as folows
that unreserved accepts terms of peace
laid down in his address to the Of the United States
caed his subsequent addresses particularly the address Of the
9th September and that desires to discuss the details Of their
application and that this wish and purpose animated not from
those who had hitherto dictated German policy conducted
e The o ANY n from an
majority Of the German people
that the humane rules Of civilized
will be both on Land and by Ge Ger
decline to take with the governments with which the
mnt Of the United States associated the question of
HE deems his duty say again, however that the only
amstice he would feel justified in submitting for
associated with her in position to enforce
mnt that be entered into and to make renewal of hos
tilites on the part of Germany impossible.
The president has therefore transmitted this correspond
with the a an auh ded the ssos
las abegerent with the suggestion that these governments
Gated their military advisors and the military advisors of the
United States be asked to submit to the associated
viii fully protect the interests of the peoples involved
sure to the associated the power
German has agreed provided they deem such
amstce possible from the military point of view. Should
such terms of armsce be suggested their acceptance by Ger
will afford the best concrete evidence OF her unequ
oca acceptance of the terms and principles of from which
the whole nation proceeds.
The president would deem himself lacking in candor did
he point out in the Enkest possible terms the why
extraordinary safeguards must be demanded Significant and
important the constitutional changes to be which
spoken Of by the German foreign secretary in his note OF the
goth of October does not appear that the principle of
responsible to the German people has yet been
fully worked out that guarantees either exist or are IN
contemplation that the alteration of principle and of practice
partially agreed will be permanent Moreover it
been reached may be that future have been brought
under the control of the German people but the present
has not been and with the that dealing
1t is evident that the German people have means OF COM
in the popular will power the king of Prussia
troll the policy of The empire unmpared that the deerm-
lining initiative still remains with those who have hitherto been
the Of Germany Feeling that the whole OF the
tion the president is his duty to say without at
tempt to soften what harsh words that the nations
of the world do not and cannot trust the word OF hos VINO
have hitherto been the masters of German policy and to point
that concluding and in attempting TO
undo the infinite injuries and njuces of this the gov
of the United States cannot deal with but VERT
able representatives Of the German people, who have been
ured of genuine standing the real rulers OF
Germany If it must deal with the military masters and the
monarchca auocras of Germany it likely to have
ons of the German empire demand not nego
aons but surrender Nothing be gained by leaving this
essential thing unsaid
accept Sir the renewed assurances Of my high consider
I"signed) ROBERT LANSING.
'Nlr Frederick Oderin charge daairs Of Switzerland
ID Interim.
I'm charge of German interests in the United States