Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-11
Declares Financial Problem,
Cannot Be Settled Without
Conference With German
Experts Release OF Ger
tain Lands Is Demanded.

Berlin, Thursday, April 10. (By the
Associated Press)-Count Won Brock.
dorff- Rantzau. foreign minister.
speaking before the national assembly
at Weimar today. said Germany would
not sign a peace treaty which de-
waited in any essential from President
Wilson's ID points.
The financial demands to be made
in the peace treaty are obviously
causing as much difficulty to our op.
ponents as those regarding territory"
the foreign minister said.
1T is impossible to solve the ques-
ton of financial claims without nego.
tiating with our experts at the confer
ence table. We will give clear ac-
count to our opponents relative to
their demands and our ability to
pay"
Our opponents continued the
minister, cannot dismember and par
alyze Germany and at the same time
extract from the resources of the
country the enormous sums they ex-
pect from them. For that purpose
we require the release. industrialiy
and agriculturally of the important
west which contrary to the armistice
terms is cut off from the rest of Ger
many.
1--WE need to have the blockades
speedily raised and we require the Inn
porta ton of foodstuffs on conditions
which will make their purchase pos
sible.
"All the states which participated
in this war find themselves in the
same distress and hardly a nation
is not disappointed by a peace that
couragement given by it to disruptive
forces"
Scheidemann Speaks
Chancellor Scheidemann also ad-
dressed the assembly on Germany's
future foreign policy. He said the
| policy would be based on three prfn-
ciples: Strict observance of all treat
| les, answering protection of vital
| German. interests and maintenance OF
spirit of unreserved Cancellation
with the entire world. He declared
that Germany must deprive two sworn
foes of international understanding
and Chauvinism-of all
! possibility of influencing its foreign
| policy in any direction.
! I'VE want an equal rapproachment
with all peoples the chancellor con-
tinued. mot fresh division of the
world into alliances end groups which
at a dangerous moment go off like
| loaded rifles. We hope that the liqui-
ddation of the war in the east will
soon be completed. We cannot allow
Russia to use force upon us in shap-
! ing our internal affairs. But if Rus
sia renounces forceful propaganda OF
Bolshevism we would gladly extend a
brotherly hand to the Russian people
who, like ourselves, had to pay for the
false calculation by its foe, imperial
ism. with defeat, collapse and misery.
| The bitterly hard road to new econ
omic and consolidation is common to
both Of US.
LAS regards France. Germany de-
sires reconciliation, and it is quite
clear we should know the obligation
we have undertaken toward her.
When we press for plebiscite in AL
SAGE Lorraine, it is not in the silent
hope of multiplying point in President
Wilson's program, but forever to re-
move ideas of revenge or fresh ac-
cusations of oppression.
I'VE are suffering severely under
the continued detention of our i'm
prisoned sons and brothers. We feel
bitterly the fact that French COM
manders in occupied territories are
trying to evoke desires for separation,
| but here also we hope for the triumph
of a new fraternal spirit which will
! liberate humanity for such elements
of international dissensions.
I'VE hope with oil our hearts that
the coming peace will leave the least
| possible scope for future disputes. But
|