Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
AMERICAN CITIZEN
IN GENEVA SPURNS
HUN PEACE PROFFER
Prof, Heron Does Not MinCe
Words When Asked by En-
vOy of Won HetIing to Take
Proposal to Wilson

LONDON, May 1O.-A story of how
an attempted German peace offensive
directed toward President Wilson was
turned down ANONYMOUSLY by Prof. He
ron, an American living in Geneva, is
told by the Swiss correspondent of the
Daily Mail in his dispatch dated at An
nemasse on the Franco-Swiss frontier.
Prof. Heron is described as a friend OF
President Wilson.
The German government, according
to the correspondent, tried to get peace
offers sent to the president through
Prof. Heron, who was visited on April
10 by Prof. Quidde, of Munich. friend
of Count Won Herthng, the imperial
German chancellor. Prof. Quidde was
accompanied by the Dutch pacifist. DR..
Jong Van Beck.
Prof. Quidde said he had come to pre-
pare the way for merciful peace and
gave Prof. Heron to understand that he
spoke for Chancellor Won Hertling and
the German foreign office. He assured
the American professor that the peace
party in the reichstag was about to gain
predominance in Germany and that ne
wished to prepare President Wilson to
take advantage of that suspicious mo-
ment.
Germany, Prof. Quidde said. was wilf-
ing to make the following terms:
German Terms
First-To grant autonomy to Alsace-
Lorraine within the limits of the Ger
man empire, provided the allies would
not breach the subject of Alsace-Lor-
raine at the peace conference.
Second-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 Germany might make certain con-
cessions.
Third-No economic war against Ger
many after the war.
Fourth-German colonies to be re-
stored.
Professor Quidde asserted that the
present offensive in France had the ul-
innate object of achieving a durable
peace
Professor Heron, the Daily Nails cor
respondent, writes after listening to the
German educator, exclaimed:
ct wonder that you have the effront-
cry to ask me to lay such a rigmarole
of cant deceit before the American
people. Far from creating a spirit of
Cancellation. it would simply strengthen
the American will to smash the peril
dious and nefarious offer of such pro-
posals.
THE United States intends to con-
tinue the fighting until the Prussian
Prussian state along with it, is ex-
tinguished forever, as power for evil.
whether il takes one year or ten.
eff you call the remorseless sacrifice
of two million men a peace offensive
and if you want the United States to
recognize your Smelling of Partisan con-
yregations and churches as a part of
it, you are making monstrous and
foolish blunder
r,1z al
treacherous overtures, l feel ashamed
Of humanity"
prof. Quidde, adds the correspondent,
left the house weeping. The next week.
Prof. Heron was besieged by new Of
fers by telephone, one of the speakers
saying he was DR.. w. S. Solf, German
colonial minister. Prof. Heron 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 correspondents and
laughed triumphantly. He said he be-
neved the Germans were at last con-
WINGED that the United States intends
to stay in the war until it's righteous
objects are achieved.
Prof. Quidde, referred to above, is
probably Prof. Ludwig Quidde, a his
torian of the University of Munich in
the Bavarian capital German Chan
cellor Won Hertling is Bavarian and
was formerly Bavarian prime minister.
Prof. Ludwig Quidde was a delegate
to the twentieth universal peace con-
ference at The Hague in the fall of
1913 In moving before the conference
a proposal for a gradual disarmament
Prof Quidde severely blamed Germany
for the increase in ornaments in Eu-
rope He said that there would have
been no increase by France, but for the
action of Germany.