The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-06-20
GERMANS HAVE ONLY
FIVE DAYS TO SIGN
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be early RECOMMENDATION anu appeaSe
ment, it will be because those re-
sponsible for conducting the war have
had the courage to see that justice
is not detected for the sake OF a
convenient peace.
'It is said that the German revo-
hutton ought to make difference
and that the German people are not
RESPONSIBLE for the policy Of the rul-
ers whom they have thrown from
mower. The allied and associated
powers recognize and welcome the
change. 1t represents great hope
for peace and a new European order
in the future.
"But it cannot affect the settle
ment of the war itself. The Ger
man revolution has stayed until the
German armies had been defeated IN
the field and all hope Of profitlng
by war of conquest had vanished
Throughout the war, as before the
war. the German people and their
voted the credits, subscribed to the
representatives supported the war,
war loans, obeyed every order, how
ever savage, of their government.
They shared the responsibility Tor
the policy of the government, for at
any moment, had they wllled IL,
thew could have reversed it. Had
that policy succeeded, they would
have acclaimed it with the same en-
thusiasm with which they welcomed
the outbreak of the war. They can
not now pretend, having changed
their rulers after the war was lost,
that it is justice that they should
escape the consequences of their
deeds.
'oThe allied and associated powers
therefore believe that the peace they
have proposed is fundamentally
peace of Justice. They are no less
certain that it is a peace of right
ON the terms agreed. There can be
no doubt as to the intentions of the
allied and associated powers to base
the settlement of Europe on the prin-
ciple of freeing oppressed peoples
and re-drawing national boundaries
as far as possible, in accordance with
the will of the peoples concerned,
while giving to each the facilities to
live an independent national and eco
nomic life.
"These intentions were made clear
not only in President Wilson's adj
dress to congress of January 8, 1918,
but in the principles of settlement
enunciated in his subsequent ad-
dresses which was the agreed basis
of the peace. A memorandum on
this point it attached to this letter.
Accordingly, the allied and asso-
ciated powers have provided for the
reconstruction of Poland as an indie
pendent state with free and secure
access to the sea- All territories
inhabited by individually Polish pop
ulations' have been accorded to Po-
land. All territories inhabited by
German majorities, save for a few
isolated towns and for colonies es-
tablished on land recently forcibly
appropriated and situated in the
midst of Individually Polish territory
have been left Germany. Wherever
the will of the people is in doubt,
a plebiscite has been provided for.
"Danzig has been constituted as a
free city, so that the inhabitants will
be autonomous, end do not come I'M
der Polish rule or form any part of
the Polish state. Poland has been
given certain economic rights in Dan
zig and the city itself has been sew
cred from Germany, because in no
other way was it possible to provide
for that free and secure access to
the sea- which Germany has prom
ised to concede."
Clause vi. of the treaty says the
allied and associated powers have
given careful consideration to the
request of the German delegation
that Germany be admitted to the
league of nations as one of the con
ditions of peace, but that the allies
are unable to accede to this request
1t adds that the German revolution
was postponed to the last moment
of the war and that there is no guar
antee that it represents perma
nent change, and that it is impossi
BILE in the present temper of inter
national feeling "to expect the fret
nations of the world to sit down i'm
mediately in equal association will
those by whom they have been 81
grievously wronged."
1t is added that the allied and as
sociated powers believe, if the Ger
man people prove that they intenc
to fulfill the conditions of the peace
and that they have abandoned for
ever those aggressive and estranginf
policies which caused the war "anc
have now become people will
whom it is possible to live in neigh
borly good fellowship, the memorie:
of these past years will speedily fade
and it will be possible at an early
date to complete the league OF ma
tions by the admission OF Germany