New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-07
Peace Letters
OF Wilson and
Charles K ggh,lic
'InrcveaEcd correspondence
Between President and
Austrian Ruler in 1913
H. Given Oul i'm Paris
Mystery Over the Reply
X ifg's Answer to Mole De-
failing u. S. Terms Never
Hcac IA ed Washington
By Ralph Courtney
.Gnccinl Cnhlc 20 Ythc r,.,h.1,,e

Copyright, 1871. Now York Tribune Inc
PARIS, April 6-Tho text Of the
notes in the hitherto unrevcalcd CORE
spondence between President Wilson
and Emperor Charles of Austria early
IN 1918 on the subject Of possible peace
terms became available tonight. Yes
terday it became known publicly for
the flrst time that there had been such
conversation and that it had mystic
rlously been cut short.
The documents given out to-nicht
were the note written by Emperor
Charles to President Wilson February
H. 1918, in which the Austrian mon
arch took up the principles Of peace
la'd down BY the President in a speech
before Congress February II, and the
reply of President Wilson to the En-
peror. Emperor Charles replied to this,
but the reply failed to reach the
President
IN Emperor Charles's first letter he
LOOK up In detail the four principles
advanced by President Wilson as neces-
saIy 10 lasting peace, and declared
nimseli IN thorough agreement with
them. The text of his letter follows:
Monarch Endorsed Peace View
The President of the United States
IN speech February ~ mentioned
tour elementary PRINCIPLES as nro1in, -
mary conditions to satisfactory
peace. may express my point ot
view IN regard to these four princinles
as follows: PIC .
ACCORDING to the German transla-
Lloh before me the President in b;,
hrst point, demands that 'satjsfactory
Settlement must entirely depend on
applying principles of justice to each
case and must be based on an aoran-
ment or such nature that LASTING
peace IS ilkeiy to result | agree with
>t tt statement. Any man looking at
e"e matter from an ethical standpoint
lnust "lsh Tor solution which will
Drihg about lasting peace and this
can only result from peace which
satisfies all conflicting interests 'N''
POINTS two and three, which belonr
together' state that peoples and
provinces must not be moved about bv
rulers as though they were mora
pawns IN game and yet at the same
Time, IN the great game of the balance
OF power, which is now dscredited for
an ''ine, every solution of the prob
ION OF jurisdiction to which this war
mas given rise must be solved in tha
interests of the nations concerned and
not as part Of a mere settlement or
compromise OF claims of rival powers,
Changes of Boundaries
rms question of jurisdiction can T
think, be quite easily solved What
might be accomplished in the wav of
changes in boundaries, perhaps in the
interests of the nations in question
can take place in friendly manner
between one state and another. for II
would (and this seems to be the mean
ing of the Pres dent of the United
States) scarcely further LASTING neaca
/, IN the desire to avoid general
shifting of peoples and provinces from
one power to another, one should nre-
vent hitting adjustment of this plan
10 part OF Europe in which. IN to
now, no consolidation of territorial con-
otlohs has taken place; as, for ex-
ample, IN part of the Balkan peninsula
Point four lays down that all clear
ly defined national aspirations must re-
celVe satisfaction, without, however. in
Producing new elements of disaoraa-
menu or perpetuating old causes of dis
senslon, SO that the peace of Europe
ana with 1T the peace of the whole
world, VIII be restored'
The President, in this clear and
STRIKING sentence, outlines another ac-
ceptable basis of agreement. natn-
rally attribute the greatest imnortanco
10 the regulation of European affairs