The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-01-30
DUTCH CLAIM HIM SAFE THERE
Tradition Has Always Made Holland
Ground for Refuge for vanquish-
edits Honor at Stake
Won't Betray Faith.

me Sanctlty OF treat1eS, decllned TO
The note follows:
by verbal note, dated January Is,
1920, given to the envoy of the queen
at Paris, the powers, referring to
227 of the treaty of Versailles,
demand that the government Of Hol-
land give into their hands William of
H~ohenzollern, former emperor of Ger
many, sc that he may be tried.
Supporting this demand, they OBJ
serve that if the former emperor had
in Germany the German
government would, under the terms
of article 22S of the peace, treaty, have
beeno bliged to deliver him.
Premeditated Acts Cited.
IN citing as premeditated viola
lions Of international treaties, as well
a systematic disregard Of the most
sacred rules of the rights Of man, a
number of acts committed during the
war by German authority. the powers
place the responsibility, at least
morally, upon the former emperor.
They emphasize the special char
land would not fulfill her interna-
tional duty if she refused to asso-
ciate herself with them within the
limit Of her ability, to pursue, or at
least not to impede, the punishment
of crimes committed.
"Theye mphasize the special char
acter of their demands, which con-
template not a judicial accusation, but
an act Of high international policy
and they make an appeal to Hollands
respect of law and love of justice not
to cover with her moral authority
violation by Germany Of the essen
tial principles of the solidarity of the
nations.
Holland Not Party to Pact.
The queen has the honor to OBJ
serve first, that obligations which
for Germany could have resulted
from article 228 of the treaty Of
peace can not serve to determine the
duty Of Holland, which is not a party
to the treaty.
' "The government of the queen,
moved by imprescription reasons,
can not view the question raised by
the demands of the powers except
from the point of view OF its own
duty. It was absolutely unconnected
whit he origin of the war and has
maintained, and not without diff
Guilty, its neutrality to the end. It
finds itself face to face with facts
of the war in a POSITION different from
that of the powers.
1T rejects with energy all suspi'
con of wishing to cover with its SOW
ereign right and its moral authority,
Of the solidarity Of nations; but it
can not recognize nm international
duty to associate itself with this act
of high international policy of the
powers.
"If in the future there should be
Instituted by the society of nations
an international jurisdiction compe
tent to judge, in ease of war, deeds
qualified as crimes and submitted to
it's jurisdiction by statute ~antedating
the acts committed, it would be I'll
for Holland to associate herself with
the new regime.
The government of the queen car
not admit in the present case any
other duty than that imposed upon
it by the laws of the kingdom and ma
tional tradition.
Can Not Betray Faith.
Now, neither the constituent laws
of the kingdom, which are baset
upon the principles of law universal
ly recognized, o a respectable sec
ular tradition which has made thi'
country always a ground of refug'
for the vanquished in international
conflicts, permits the government o
Holland to defer to the desire OF tn
powers by Withdrawing from tn
former emperor the benefit of it
laws and this tradition.
Justice and national honor, o
which respect is a scored duty, OF
pose this. The Netherlands people
moved by the sentiments to whicI
In history of the world has done jus
tice, could not betray the faith G
those who have confided themselve
to their free institutions.
THE government of the queen j
pleased to believe that the power
will recognize the good grounds c
these considerations, which ris
above any consideration of persona
tiles and which seem to it so pereml
tory that they could not REASONABLE
T give rise to wrong interpretations"
Il German Newspapers Pleased.
BERLIN.-The pan-German pre-.