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T0 BELLIGERENTS
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Note Asks Warring Countries
to Name Peace Terms
BE
FORWARDED SUNDAY NIGHT
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President Calls on Warring Nations
te Announce and Compare Terms
on Which They Will Agree.
President Wilson has taken the
{pitiative in a movement looking to-
ward world peace. In a dispatch sent
to all the belligerent nations he sug-
gests that they propose the terms
upon which they will consider peace.
The president makes it plain that
he is not, himself, proposing peace,
but merely is suggesting that sound-
ings be taken to discover how far
apart the belligerents are. He says
that perhaps peace is not so far re-
moved as the world may imagine, and
Bis efforts are directed toward secur-
ing some definite ideas of this point.
Moreover, the president points out
that from expressions made, it seems
evident that all the warring nations
mre striving for the same objective,
Rhe protection of the weaker states
and the maintenance of a proper
equilibrium among the world powers.
Also he directs attention to the real
interest that the United States, as a
peutral, has in a settlement of the
WRT.
This message was sent to the bel-
ligerents late Sunday night, and in
the light of this information the
speech of Premier David Lloyd George
to the British parliament Tuesday
takes on added significance. He out-
fined in general terms the object to
be gained by the war in almost pre-
cisely the same phrases as used by
the president.
Text of Notes.
The texts of the notes themselves
began identically as follows:
“The president of the United States
has instructed me to suggest to the
(here is inserted a designation of the
government addressed) a course of
. action with regard to the present war,
which he hopes that the government
will take under consideration as sSug-
gested in the most friendly spirit and
as coming not enly from a friend but
tive of a neutral nation whose inter
ests have been most seriously affected
by the war and whose concern for its
early conclusion arises out of a mani-
fest necessity to determine how best
to safeguard those interests if the
war is to continue.”
At this point the texts vary. In the
also as coming from the representd- peptral nations, now exceedingly hard | CORRECTS FIRST UTTERANGE | em eo er
notes to the central powers this paras : .
e b P of views as to the terms which must ons why the United. States had sent | Veltaire
graph follows next:
structed to make the president has
long had it in mind to offer. He is
somewhat embarrassed to offer it at
this particular time, because it may
now seem to have been prompted by
a desire to play a part in connection | 4. nti] the one group of belliger-| sing followed a conference which he
with the recent overtures of the cen : > ey ary | 7
It has, in fact, been in ents or the other is exhausted; if mil- | had had with President Wilson. Mr.
ia 2 a on high lion after million of human lives must | Lans.ng said:
! y Ege y | continue to be offered up until on the |
gin, and the president would have de- )
: : : "| one side or the other there are no | ters that a wrong impression was
layed offering it until those overtures | more to offer; if resentments must be | ; ;
tral powers.
had been independently answered, but
for the fact fhat it also concerns the
question peace and may best be
considercd ntircly on its own pro-
posal, which have the same end in
view. +1 ident can only beg
that his ru tion be considered en-
tirel; £ vn merits, and as if it
had been made in other ecircum-
stances.”
In the note to the entente allies
a slight change is made.
Then, all ‘the notes proceed identic-
ally as follows:
“The president suggests that an
early occasion be sought to ‘call out
from all the nations now at war such
an avowal of their respective views
@s to the terms upon which the war
might be concluded and the arrange:
ments which would be deemed satis-
factory as a guarantee against its re-
newal or the kindling of any similar
conflict in the future as would make
it possible frankly to compare them.
Bie is indifferent as to the means taken
to accomplish this. He would be
happy himself to serve, or even to
take the initiative in its accomplish-
ment, in any way that might prove ac-
geptable; but he has no desire to de-
termine the method ox the instrumen-
tality. One way will be ag acceptable
to him as another if only the great ob-
ject he has in mind be attained.
“He takes the liberty of calling at-
tention to the fact tat the objects
which the statesmen of the belliger-
ents on both sides have ‘n mind in
this war are virtually the same, as
stated in general terms to their own
people and to the world. Each side |
desires to make the rights and privi-
Jeges of weak peoples and small states
as secure against aggression or denial |
in the future as the rights and
privileges of the great and powerful
states now at war. Each wishes itself
to be made secure in the future, along
with all other nations and people,
against the recurrence of wars like
this, and against aggre ;sion of selfish
interfere: of any kind.
«mach would be jealous of the for-
v more rival leagues to
n uncertain balance of pow-
multiplying suspicions;
ready to consider the
league of nations first
of the
sh will cert
preserve
ers amidst
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MISS MARGARET WILSON.
safeguard the independence, the ter-
ritorial integrity, and the political and
commercial freedom of the nations in-
volved.
“In the measures to be taken to se-
cure the future peace of the world
the people and government of the
United States are as vitally and as di-
rectly interested as the governments
now at war. Their interest, moreover,
in the means to be adopted to relieve
the smaller and weaker peoples of the
world of the peril eof wrong and vio-
lence is as quick and ardent as that of
any other people or government. They
stand ready, and even eager, to eo-
operate in the accomplishment of
these ends, when the war is over, with
every influence and resource at their
command.
“But the war must first be conclud-
ed. The terms upon which it is to be
concluded they are not at liberty to
suggest; but the president does feel
that it is his right and his duty to
| point out their intimate interest in
its conclusion lest the situation of
| to endure, be rendered altogether in-
| tolerable; and lest, more than all, an
injury be done civilization itself which
i can never be atoned for or repaired.
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NEW YORK CITY,
SAYS PEACE NOTE
1S NOT A THREAT
Lansing Modifies “‘on Verge
of War” Statement
“The only ining the German over-
tures did was possibly to delay the
note a few days.
“It was finally decided to send this
Monday. (The note was sent Monday
night and Tuesday morning). The
difficulty that faced the president was
that the note might be construed as a
movement for peace, and in aid of the
German overtures. He specifically de-
nies that that was a factor in the com-
munication itself.”
President Wilsen’s proposal to the
ness on the part of the giver or more flatter-
ingly demonstrates the faith in the recipient's
possibilities and character?
Make it a happy Yuletide, for the "young-
belligerent powers for a comparison of
land: expressing similar desires. It is
MeL . believed in Germany and in Washing-
r. Lansing Declares He Did Not In-' i; that other neutral powers, particu-
i Wilson Feels Justified.
“The president, therefore, feels al-
| together justified in .suggesting an im-
| mediate opportunity for a comparison
«The suggestion which I am in-| precede those ultimate arrangements | jts peace note to the mations of the | Aboard Two Weeks Overdue.
| for the peace of the world, which all | 411d as a possible threat against the |
| desire and in which the neutral na-
tions as well as those at war are ready
to play their full responsible part. If
the contest must continue to proceed
| toward undefined ends by slow attri-
| kindled that can never cool and de-
| spairs engendered from which there
can be no recovery, hopes of peace
and of the willing concert of free peo-
| ples will be rendered vain and idle.
“The life of the entire world has
| been profoundly affected. Every part
| of the great family of mankind has
| felt the burden and terror of this un-
| rececemton contest of arms. No na-
| tion jn the civilized world can be said
| in truth to stand outside its influence
| or to be safe against its disturbing ef-
| fects. And yet the concrete objects
| for which it is being waged have
never been definitely stated.
“The leaders of the several bellig-
erents have, as has been said, stated
| those objects in general terms. But,
stated in general terms, they seem
the same on both sides. Never yet
have the authoritative spokesmen of
either side avowed the precise objects
which would, if attained, satisfy them
and their people that the war had‘been
fought out. The world has been left
to conjecture what definite results,
what actual exchange of guaranties,
what political or territorial changes or
readjustments, what stage of military
success even would ‘bring the war to
an end. :
Terms Not 8o Irreconcilable.
“It may be that the peace is nearer
than we know; that the terms which
the belligerents on the one side and
on the other would deem it necessary
to insist upon are not so irreeoncil-
able as some have heard; that an
interchange of views would clear the
way at least for conference and make
| the permanent concord of the nations
| 2 hope of the immediate future, a con-
cert of nations immediately practic-
{ able.
«The president is not proposing
peace; he is not even offering media-
| tion. He is merely proposing that
| soundings be taken in order that we
may learn, the neutral nations with
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| the belligerent, how near the haven |
| of peace may be for which all man-!
kind longs with an intense and in-
creasing longing. He believes th
gpirit ip which he speaks and the ob-
jects which he seeks will be under-
stood by all cone , antl he confi-
dently hopes for a response which will
bring a new light into the affairs of
the world.”
tend te Intimate Change In Policy of larly Spain and the. Scandinavian
Neutrality Was Being Considered. . countries, will immediately follow.
BIG LINER MISSING ;
Because certain persons had in-
terpreted his explanation of the reas-| :
With Many Americans
The 11,000-ton passenger liner Vol-
| Teutonic powers, Secretary of State taire, with a crew of 140, probably
| Lansing issued another statement to | one-third of them Americans, is be-
| clear up the matter. | lieved to have been sunk off Liverpool
| by a German submarine.
The liner is two weeks overdue in
New York and it was learmed today
| officials of the line have all but given
: | up hope that she will ever be seen ¢
I have learned from several auar) again.
| The explanation of Secretary Lap)
made by the statement which 1 made | Boston Remains Wet.
| this morning and I wish to correct |, Boston on Tuesday voted, by a ma-
that impression. My intention was to | jority of 23,462, to continue the
suggest the very direct and necessary | jicensed sale of liquor after the live-
interest which the country, as one of | liest campaign on the liquor ques-
the neutral nations, has in the POS-!tjon that the city has had in years.
sible terms which the belligerents| he vote in favor of license was
may have in mind, and I did not in-{53 459 with 29,997 against. Last year
tend to intimate that the government, the ‘vote for license was 46,115 and
was considering any change Inv 18 21877 against, a majority for license
policies of neutrality which it has €on- | of 14,238.
stantly pursued in the face of con- |
i stantly increasing difficulties. 1 regret |.
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| and hope to see it accomplished.” Canals of Venice.
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drawing the nation nearer to war, fol-| direction of the canals, of which there
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vaded by the belligerents on both sides :
so that the situation is becoming in-
creasingly critical. I mean by that
His Day Off.
“Who is that gentleman listening
that we are drawing nearer to the
verge of war and therefore are en-
titled to know what each belligerent
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“It was not our material interes hands to their ears and pretend to be
that were considered when we sald | suffering.”’—Spokane Review.
that the situation might become in-|
tolerable. We have prospered by the
war, but our rights have been in-
vaded.”
Departed Warrhth.
“What have you there?”
“A package of old love letters.”
Lansing emphasized positively that “@oing to burn them?”
the German peace proposal and the| “Yes. When I wrote these missives
Lloyd George speech had nothing to | they were so fervent I had an idea they
do with the dispatch of the Wilson | might be ignited by spontaneous com-
note except possibly to delay send-| bustion, but I guess I'll have to use a
ing it. match after all.”—Spokane Review.
On this point he authorized quota- | re
tion as follows:
“No nation has been sounded on
this matter and we did not know in'| less she is my exact opposite.
advance what Lloyd George would say. You will never find so perfect a being
And there was no consideration of as that.—Life.
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oyd George in connection with for- | The true art of memory is the art of
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