Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-11
GERMAN DELEGATES SAY
FIRST PRINCIPLE ABANDONED

Paris, May 10 (by the Associated
Press) The German peace delega-
ton declares in letters sent to the
allied and associated powers that on
essential points the basis of the peace
of right agreed upon between the
belligerents has been abandoned.
Two letters have been sent to the
allies, to which replies have been
made. The first letter reads as fol-
lows:
THE German peace delegation has
finished the first perusal of the peace
conditions which have been handed
over to them. They have had to real
ize that on essential points the basis
of the peace of right agreed upon be-
tween the belligerents has been aban-
doned.
THE were not prepared to find that
the promise, explicitly given to the
German people and the whole of man
kind, is in this way to be rendered
illusory.
The draft of the treaty contains
demands which no nation could en-
dure. Moreover, our experts hold that
many of them could not possibly be
carried out.
THE German peace delegation will
substantiate these statements in de-
tail and transmit to the allied and as
ISOLATED governments their obserVa-
tons and their material continuously.
(Signe6
BROCKDORFF-R ANTZAU."
Discussion Not Permitted.
To the letter the following reply
was made by the allied and associated
powers:
THE representatives of the allied
and ASSOCIATED powers have received
the statement of objections of the
German plenipotentiarie to the draft
conditions of peace.
In reply they wish to remind the
German delegates that they have
formulated the terms of the treaty
with constant thought of the princi-
! pies on which the armistice and the
negotiations for peace were proposed
| They can admit no discussion of their
right to insist on the terms of the
peace substantially as drafted. They
can consider only such practical sug-
gestions as the German plenipoten-
/ tiaries may have 10 submit"
League of Nations Plan.
| The second letter from the German
! representatives reads:
| The German peace delegation has
! the honor to pronounce it's attitude
on the question of the league of ma.
| tons by herewith transmitting a Ger.
man program, which. in the opinion
of the delegation, contains important
suggestions on the league of nations
/ problem.
The German peace delegation re.
serves for itself the liberty of stating
its opinions on the draft of the allied
on1 aGCnpiptal to In, SafaiI
| In the meantime. it begs to call atten.
ton to the discrepancy lying in the
fact that Germany is called on to sigr
/ the statute of the league of nations
as an inherent part of the treaty draf
| handed to us, ard, on the other hand
is not mentioned among the states
which are invited to join the league oil
nations.
THE German peace delegation begS
! to inquire whether and. IL so. under
/ what circumstances such invitation is
! intended. (Signed)
"BROCKDORFF-R ANTZAU.'
Germany May Join,
The reply of the allies to this is as
follows:
The receipt of the German pro.
gram of the league of nations is ac.
| knowledged. The program will be re.
! ferred TO the appropriate committee
of the allied and associated powers.
| THE German plenipotentiaries viii
| find on REORGANIZATION of the cove.
| nant of the league of nations that the
matter of the admission of additiona
member states has not heen overlook,
| ed, but is explicitly provided. for in The
second paragraph of Article l"
/ m