Evening star., 1918-08-23
ALLIES STOD|CTATE
TERMS FOR PEACE
Senator Lodge Says Victory
Must Be Won Inside
Germany.

The peace that comes at the end of
the war must be a dictated peace.
and we and our allies must dictate
It," Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,,
ranking republican member OF the for
eign relations committee and probable
republican leader of the Senate. told
the Senate today in speech urging
the speedy passage Of the administra-
tion man-power bill.
THE victory bringing such peace"
he said, must be won inside. not out
side. the German frontier. 1t must be
won finally and thoroughly in German
territory and can be won nowhere else.
He warned the Senate that the
Germans who have been repulsed on
the western front undoubtedly will
now resort to their other weapon.
which they have used more than once
during this war with terrible effect.
They will begin an insidious peace
propaganda with this weapon they
have succeeded in disorganizing
Russia, reducing that great country
to a wreck.
Must Combat Propaganda.
ut is the German propaganda which
we must face in the ensuing months,
and it therefore seems to me OF the
last Importance to know exactly
tiles , viii not serve. It must bet is
commonly said; we have all said 1t
just and righteous peace. But what
is a just and righteous peace? What
are the conditions that would make
it so? What 10 the irreducible mini
safe for democracy. But what ex.
actly do we mean by democracy? II
we mean, as we undoubtedly do the
democracy of England. France. Italy
and the United States, we can all un-
derstand it: but the bolsheviki mas
querade under the name of democ-
racy, and the bolsheviki, by a COM
bination of treachery, corruption and
ignorance, have reduced Russia to
servitude under. Germany and have
engendered a form of democracy as
dangerous to the world as the gov
ernment of the Hohenzollerns. But
assuming. as we do, when we say
we must make the world safe for
democracy that we mean our own
conception of democracy. how is it to
be made safe?
Broadly speaking. there is only one
way to obtain this security of the
nations, this safety of democracy. this
preservation of freedom and civtliza-
ton, and that is by reducing Germany
to a condition where by no possibility
can she precipitate another war for
universal conquest, with all its at
tendant horrors, upon an unonendtng
world. Again we are faced by de-
tails How is this to be done?
Il see only one way in which 1t can
be done. and will enumerate the re.
conditions to which we must attain.
Belgium must be restored.
"Alsace and Lorraine must be re-
turned to France-uncondition
returned-not merely because senti-
hut because the iron and coal Of
Lorraine must be forever taken from
Germany.
where the Italian race Is predominant.
including Trieste-must go back 10
serbia and Rumania must be es-
tablished in their independence.
Greece must be made secure.
Most important Of all, II we are 70
make the world safe in the way we
mean it to be safe, the great Slav
populations now under the govern
ment of Austria-the Jugo-Sl and
the Czecho-Slovaks. who have been
used to aid the Germans, whom they
loathe-must be estaDnshed as ihoe-
pendent states.
THE Polish people must have an
independent Poland.
And we must have these independ-
ent states created so that they will
stand across the pathway OF Germany
than this for a just, a righteous and
an enduring peace.
Would Face Another War.
THE Russian provinces taken from
Russia by the villainous peace of
Brest- t-Litovsk must be restored to
Russia The President. as you all re-
member, has announced the vast i'm
portance of sustaining Russia. If Ger
many continues to hold large part
of Russia. the world for years to come
will be under the shadow of another
great war which will surely be pre-
cipitated upon US when Germany has
developed her Russian possessions to
the point Of yielding her men. money
and supplies.
"Constantinople must be finally
taken away from Turkey and placed
in the hands of the allied nations as a
free port, so as to bar Germanys way
to the east, and hold the Dardanelles
open for the benefit Of mankind.
I'VE must not be beguiled into con-
cessions to Turkey in the hope Of sep
arating her from Germany. 1t would
be q miserable outcome to have Tur-
key retained in Europe. curse to her
subjects and neighborS, q plague spot
and breeder of wars. Her massa-
cres must not under any pretense be
condoned nor her iniquities rewarded.
Let. Turkey and Bulgaria share the
fate of their master and be SO treated
that they will be unable again to trouble
the world.
Palestine must never return to
Turkish rule, and the prosecuted
Christians of Asia Minor-the Syrians
safe.
These are the principal conditions
which alone will give US a victory
worth having. and when we talk about
a complete peace and a just and
the world that this Is what we mean.
1t Is idle to talk about our not an
Initiating the German people. Nobody.
Of course. has any such idea. 1t could
not be done even IL we wished to do
try to arrange government for Ger
many. The German people must do
that themselves, and they will get
precisely the government that they
have the government they prefer,
whose purposes and ambitions and
barbarism they share and sustain. Our
part and our business is to put Ger
many in position where she can do
no more harm in the future to the
this we shall have fought in vain.
THE results which we must have,
and which have ventured to outline,
can never be obtained by a negotiat-
ed peace. Lord IIansdowne-and he
is not aione-appears to think that
this war can be ended by peace for
mulated by eminent Representatives
of the nations in the old way. He
does not seem to have gone beyond
the methods OF 1915 and the congress-
OF Vienna. AS this war 10 utterly
different from any war that the world
has ever known, so must the peace
which concludes 1t be. utterly differ
ent from any peace which the world