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Of people whose ideas are diametri-
cally opposed to mine.
In times gone by, you have been.
my dear president. a great friend
of Italy. You have often reminded
me OF the fact. You voice was the
only one raised in protest against
the French occupation of Tunis.
l have always been confirmed
friend OF Democratic France and L
decided adversary of German i'm
perialism. Ii / now find myself at
logserheads with the French policy
it IL precisely because France has
swerved from that program of de-
mocracy which constituted its ira
ditiOnal glory. its greatest moral
| force which in the fatal year OF
1914 brought to her side the de-
mocracies of the whole world.
Very probably, my dear President.
when addressing your American
audiences, you will lay stress upon
the fact that the misdeeds OF inn
perial Germany. its warlike feudal
spirit and the vulgar. gross brutality
OF the kaiser were not indifferent
causes in bringing about the great
world conflict.
On the other hand. il as Lloyd
George has shown and as an impair
, tial examination of the facts has
proved. it would be unjust to relieve
the German people of even the slight.
est fraction of responsibility. You
will justly remind your hearers of
the invasion OF Belgium and the de.
vastation of French territories
These are facts which no pleas for
extenuajion is possible. You will
probably recall the war procluma.
tons of the Kaiser. as cruel as they
were stupid. j shall not find fault
with your Judgment IL this matter
however severe.
DETESTS IMPERIALISM.
have always detested imperialism
nationalism and Xenophobia. Your
words. therefore, can never appear
! excessive to me. Rail as much as
you can against the Germans during
the war, against German Imperialism
against the Kaiser and his mediocre
I collaboration. Bethniann- Hollweg. But
America rs. who are eminently Drac.
tical people. besides being a people
| OF idealiSts. will ask you, after lis
tening TO your balance sheet on war
I Tor your corresponding balance shee,
! on peace.
For il is highly questionable
whether the war has produced such
| enormous damage as the peace You
nave already proclaimed that peace
treaties were only a means for con
unuing war. Your thought has its
exact counterpart In reality, for the
4 iG.
maintaining Europe in q state OF
war which is daily sapping and moi
soning her very life blood
Both Italy. in 1915, and America
in 1917, entered the war with tbs
flrm idea of Fastening peace, and
1t was said at the time that we
were contributing to the rapid con
clusion of the war: that we wer,
gong toward a society of free. pro
gressive nations. 1t was to hay.
been the last great war, and tn.
peoples who had suffered from tn.
conflict were TO be able to rest I'm
the enjoyment OF long, LASTING
peace. We ourselves promised these
same things to the boys who died
for our safety and the glory of their
country.
BRAND DEFINES POLICY,
On the 10th of January. in 1918
BRAND of France defined the policy
of the entente in the name of al
the peoples adhering The year
that marked the end of the war or
the Sth of January, 1918, President
Wilson formulated his fourteen
points and the principles of peacs
they represented. The conditions
whereOn he INTERVIEWED, includihu
equality between the victors and
Vanquished: clear treaties of peace
removal of all economical barriers
| systemiZation OF the colonial rights
of all parties: freedom of the seas
adequate guarantees to be given
and received for reducing national
armaments to the minimum per.
mitted by internal safety; the resti
tuition of Alsace-Lorraine to France
and the reconstruction of Belgium
! Now the treaty of Versailles and
| the other treaties which followed
| are the most absolute denial OF
those principles. There never was
a more brutal violence. Nanquishec
| people have been allotted at ran
dom, or. like Austria. they have
been compelled to live isIated. Aus