The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-17
GERMANS SAY
TREATY WONT
Be APPROVED
Leaders Say Revised Pact
Must Meet German
Counter Proposals.
A. G. ANDERSON
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BERLIN. June live won'4 sign =.
stripped OF all verbiage. these tbrAe
words constitute. almost without eYeen.
tion today. the reply Of Germanv's
leaders to the allied peace terms. While
they have not yet been able to study the
treaty after its final modif1cat tions. partv
leaders and those of the national as
semoly were emphatic that the treatv
VIII be rejected unless the allied answer
meets the German counter proposals
1t IS among the national assembly which
VIII unquestionaly determine Gernany's
hnai answer. that the loudest protests
we're being made today.
Count Won Brockdorff- -Rantzau. head
Of the German delegates to Paris. reach
ed Weimar this afternoon with the en-
tente answer. The course which the
government will take in it's consfders
tion was not announced Officially. but il
is announced that it will be turned over
as quickly as possible to the national
assembly which will sit as body in its
consideration.
Leaders interviewed today were MEM
bers of the peace committee Of the na-
tional assembly. before the traty prob
ably shall first be considered. Their
statements reflected the sentiment of
their respective parties. All leaders de-
ciared fatty that they would not sign.
with the exception of DIR. Hugo Hasse.
Independent Socialist leader, who said:
The Independent Socialists are trust
ing to the internationa lproletariat to
nullify the provisions of the treaty.
Herman Mueller. president of the ma
jority Socialists. declared:
Unless the draft of the treaty has
been subjected to sweeping modifca-
tions. il is not likely that it can be car
ried out. Hence it is unsignable New
ertheless, It is to be hoped that the en-
tente's answer corresponds sufficiently
TO our counter proposals to allow sign
ing"
4 note Of pessimism was dominant
in the views of practically all the lead
ers
Signing is possible only If the en-
tente answer is within the frame of the
German counter proposals" said DR..
Gustav Stresemann, president of the
German peoples party. The size of the
indemnity and the territorial conces-
sions that Germany will be called upon
to make were the principal causes of
bitterness of DR.. stresemann's party.
1T is noteworthy" he continued.
that the German government did not
dare submit to the peace committee Of
the national assembly a draft of the
counter-terms. Had il been known that
they contained an indemnity provision
calling for one hundred billion marks
gold. ii would probably have been re-
jected before. That part of 1t is the
work of the German government and not
of the German parliament, nor any par
I liamentary committee.
Germany can only accept a peace
which will take the counter-terms as
the maximum indemnity payable under
any consideration; that. will concede an
immediate and uninfiuenced plebscite il
the eastern districts and the Saare reg
ion. Alsace and Lorrain emust be al
lowed to determine themselves whether
they will belong TO any nation or be
come autonomous. Germany can sign
no peace which will take away her mer-
chant marine.