Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-10-25
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.

CIV WoIuS, IL means unCOHul.
iona surrender {
From the Secretary of State
% the Charge de Affairs ad in- {
:erim in charge of German i'm p
terests in the United States I
Department of State, Oct. %, I
1918: ]
Sir: t
Il have the honor TO acknowl.
edge the receipt of your note Of ,
the 22nd transmitting a commu-
nication under date of the goth
from the German government
and to advise you that the p esi-
dent has instructed ME to reply
thereto as follows: =,
Having received the solemn
aid explicit assurance of the
German government that it UNI
reservedly accepts the terms of
peace laid down in his address
to the Congress of the United
States on the 5th of January,
1918, and the principles of settle
ment enunciated in his subse-
quent addresses. particularly the
address of the 9th of September;
and that it desires to discuss the
details of their application and
that this wish and purpose ema-
mated, not from those who havel
hitherto dictated German policy
aud conducted the present war
on Germany's behalf, but from
ministers who speak for the ma
jority of the Reichstag and for
All overwhelming majority of the
| German people and having re-
ceived explicit promise of the
!: presen. German government that
the humane rules of civilized
warfare will be observed both on
land and sea by the German ARM
ed forces the President of the
j United States feels that he cam
not decline to take up with the
governments with which the
government of the United States
is associated, the question of an
armistice.
| He deems it his duty to say
again, however, that the only
armistice lie would feel justified
in submitting for consideration
/ would be one which should leave
the United States and the other
) powers associated with her in a
T position to enforce any arrange.
. inents that may be entered into
and to make renewal of hos
tilities on the part of Germany
! impossible.
1.-The President has, therefore,
transmitted his correspondence
with the present German author
Il tiles to the government with
which the government of the
i United States IS associated as a
| belligerent with the suggestion
that if these governments are
disposed to affect peace upon the
terms and principles indicated,
their military advisers and the
military advisers of the United
| States, be asked to submit to the
governments associated against
Germany, the necessary terms of
such an armistice as will fully
protect the interests of the peo-
pies involved and insure to the
associated government the unre-
str1cted power to safeguard and
enforce the details of the peace|
to which the German government
has agreed, provided they deem
| such an armiStiCe possible from
the military point of view. |
Should terms OF such armistice be |
suggested, their acceptance b,
Germany will afford the best con-
crete evidence of her unequivocal
acceptance of the terms and |
principles of peace from which
the whole action proceeds.
THE President would deem
himself lacking in candor did he
not point out in the frankest
possible terms, the reason why
extraordinary safe guards must
be demanded. Significant and
as the constitutional
changes seem to be, which are
spoken of by the German For
eign Secretary in his note of the
goth of October, it does not at.I
pear that the principle of a gov
eminent responsible to the Ger
man people has yet been fully
worked out or that any guaran-
tees either exist or are in conf
temptation that the alterations
of principle and of practice now
partially agreed upon, will lie
Moreover, it does not appear
that the heart of the present diff.