The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-14
President Expected to Decide if Solf's Reply
 Warrants Presentation
 to the Entente Allies
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Continued from Page One) Foreign Secretary Solfs note it found it's unofficial opinion divided into two distinct lines.
 One, shared largely by the republi- cans in Congress, is inclined to the view that Senator Lodges prediction of. situation which may threaten the subjection of deliberations of di- plomacy for victories at arms, has been fulfilled
 The other, confident in the success of President Wilson's diplomacy and probably forming it's conclusions from close knowledge of what the govern ment is planning, is very certain that the President has created situa- tion where he now can deliver another stroke which will bring about an un conditional surrender or throw the Kaiser and the German militarists completely out of any power they may retain.
 There is general feeling that the next move will confront the military party with the choice of such an un- conditional surrender as will be ac- ceptable to all the allied co-belliger- ents. or a genuine political revolution in Germany which will bring about one
 SKILFULLY FRAMED
 It has been pointed out that Presi- dent Wilson's inquiry to Chancellor MaXimilian to develop whether the chancellor merely was speaking for the German leaders who have been conducting the war probably was skilfully framed to pave the way for
 t,,fn ttn .nft1o a n people directly that no covenants Of peace can be made with the men who have betrayed the world.
 The vresent German govern ment. wheOH as Secretary Solf says, was formet by conference and has the support of the majority Of the Reichstag. was formed through an imperial decree which permit ted it. There is nothing before any of the allied governments. so far as is known, to show that there has been any such change in the German system which would prevent the autocratic powers which uttered that decree from re- voking it. when it's purpose had been accomplished. In other words, an allied diplomat considering the arrangement of an armistice or the arFdHSeUlcHl Ol NtnS dCliCdl details to carry out the application of the terms of peace President Wilson has laid down, might ask: What guarantee have we that these arrangements will not be regarded as a scrap of paper?
 NO KAISERISM PEACE
 A close reading of all of Pres ident Wilson's announcements on the subject, when all else has been eliminated, shows him repeatedly laying down the fundamental prin- ciple that no peace can be made while the German people endure Kaiserism. In his reply to the popes note. August 2T. 1917, the President said
 We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as guarantee of anything that is to endure. unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidencesof the will and purpose of the German people themselves as other peoples of the world would be justified ir accepting.''
 Tn his subsequent pronounce ments. finally coming down to his New York speech Of September 2S. the President drives home the same point each time with new emphasis.
 The conclusion. in the opinion of close observers, would seem to be that the military party. failing to make peace by the sword, as it promised, gives way to political party. Upon President Wilson's esti- mate of how far the present peace party in Germany represents the will of the German people themselves, and of what guarantees there may be that the military autocracy will not be in position to undo at will their work, the next step depends.
 DESTROY AUTOCRACY@
 There seems little doubt that unless the German people themselves. to use the language of the President de- stroy the autocratic power which of it's own choice can disturb the peace of the world, or at least reduce 1t to virtual impotence. the allied armies will continue the work of destroying that power on the battlefields of France and Belgium and probably Germany.
 The prediction is being freely made in the capital tonight that unless Germanys latest move brings peace, a revolution will sweep the Kaiser and his whole party completely out of power. There are some support CTS of the Presidents diplomacy who hint that such development is pre-