| Show HOW GREAT WARS OF HISTORY WERE BROUGHT TO END peace talk recalls how negotiations were started in past conflicts MOVE STANDS ALONE history does not disclose an exact parallel to course of central powers mediation such as offered by president seldom has been accepted V new york how did great wars end have peace offers such as president wilsons Wll Wil sons usually borne fruit did tin an undefeated warring power like germany ever before hold out the olive branch to the enemy these are questions of intense interest to humanity today their answers have a direct bearing on the topic uppermost in almost every mind how soon the awful holocaust of Eu ropes best and bravest will cease history does not disclose any exact parallel to germanys germanas Germ anys course at least in modern umes times A belligerent boasting herself victorious has never before requested her adversaries to meet her hep nd discuss possible terms of at peace moreover president wilsons Wll Wil sons offer of mediation frices faces the fact that rarely have nations availed themselves of such an opportunity the united states may now nov become the great peacemaker 1 the mediator between the entente and the central powers but it will be almost the first time such a situation has developed miny many times indeed in almost every war a beaten foe has requested peace parleys through a neutral such an act Is usually rightly taken as a confession 0 of defeat in our last war the conflict with spain the madrid government on july 20 26 1898 realizing that further struggle was fruitless made overtures to the united states through jules cambon who was then french ambassador at washington protocol was signed the american government immediately availed itself of this MIS chance to get together with the foe and 17 days later the protocol was signed when england tired of the long losing fight with her american colonies she first sent bent separate envoys to tile the french government americas ally these were followed by other negotiator who discussed tile situation with the commissioners the american government had sent to paris the american AmerIc arx commissioners had been positively commanded by the continental Contin entill congress not to negotiate peace Vilt without hout the participation of france which reminds us of ff the agreement in force today between the present entente allies but the commissioners did sign a separate treaty with the reservation that it should not go into effect until france had made pence peace when tile the french government was informed by the commissioners of what had been done it accepted the terms which then came in force ou our r war of 1812 saw an offer of lie he russian czar to act as mediator much much like president wilsons Wll Wil sons action accio n t f a few days ago the offer was reacted acted by the british but lord cas tle Ile reagh speaking for the london government let it be known at the time lie he refused the czar its as media bior or that he be was willing to negotiate erectly with the united states the united stoics states immediately sent commissioners co but great britain delayed a long time she did not appoint the promised envoys who signed the pence peace of ghent until her troubles coubles rou bles had aggravated greatly find and he was quite desirous of peace in the mexican war president polk bould have made peace at almost any time but plexico would not receive ills his envoys finally lie he sent a representative nicholas P along with gen winheld scotts army trist was authorized to treat with mexico as soon as the he enemy government would grant him a hearing but scott quarreled with trist and refused to transmit his letter to the mexican leaders arit was forced to set gt the british minister to forward it for him after repeated discouraging failures and rebuffs he finally met commissioners ners who had been appointed by the he new mexican government which succeeded that of santa anna but this wits after president poll pol had ordered his recall trist disregarded the recall order and negotiated the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo which was accepted on both sides and ended the war president theodore roosevelt was one of the most successful in history a tact fact which was recognized when the nobel commission awarded him a pence peace prize on june 8 1905 roosevelt brought the russo japanese war to a close by sending identical dispatches to petro grad and tokyo urging the belligerent governments to enter into peace negotiations dussias Rus sias defeats in the field and japans serious financial straits impelled them to comply both sent envoys to the united states who negotiated the treaty of portsmouth napoleonic treaties the napoleonic peace treaties usually began with an armistice the most famous the treaty of tilsit was brought about by a personal meeting between napoleon and alexander I 1 on a raft in the middle of the river to agree upon an armistice which the czar had already sought an armistice armistic ewas was also agreed upon after the battle of lutzen but napoleon leon would not agree to the allies terms and resumed hostilities his fall in 1814 was accompanied by no negotiations the allies were vere actually in paris napoleons generals persuaded him to sign an act of abdication and the french senate dethroned dethroner him on the death of czar nicholas 1 I ills his successor alexander III II 11 announced to the courts of europe his desire that the crimean war should end and this Is the nearest approach to a parallel with germanys germanas Germ anys action today A peace conference was held in vienna but in three months it was broken oft off and the war resumed the war went on until austria a neutral pov poi er threatened to join the allies unless the czar accepted her ultimatum lie ile at first farst refused but a personal letter from the neutral king of prussia induced him to reconsider and the final peace conference was held the war of italy france and austria in 1850 was terminated in asur ai surprising fashion by an armistice agreed on personally between napoleon in III and franz josef just as the french and italian armies were in the full tide of success victor emmanuel was forced to agree and the terms of the armistice were embodied in a peace treaty the civil war the war beewen prussia aa and denmark in 1664 came abruptly to an end when the danes learned that neither england nor france would help them they dismissed their war ministry f from rono office and sent proposals for a truce directly to berlin and vienna the terms ot of peace between the united states and the confederacy were arranged by generals in tile the field in the war between austria prussia and italy in franz josef afi aler er his defeats at Koenig graetz and ana elsewhere informed napoleon III HI of his willingness to cede venetia to italy and his desire that napoleon be mediator Nn napoleon accepted and bismarck drafted the terms and sent them to napoleon who as mediator accepted them an armistice followed in 1870 the french government which succeeded Bucce eded napoleon III asked first for an armistice then tor for peace but the requests were declined and the siege of paris began after the surrender of paris the germans consented to an armistice to permit the election of a national assembly which it could recognize the preliminaries of peace were agreed on between bis marck and tillers at versailles and the treaty followed at frankfort the russo turkish war was cut short by En glands threat to enter it IL russia arranged an armistice immell immediately and negotiated the treaty of san stefano directly with turkey england backed by france and austria refusal to recognize it and the congress gress of berlin was summoned but before it met the czar had negotiated a secret treaty with england embodying most of the agreements subsequently made there china gives up china made two approaches to japan while the war of 1891 1894 was going on but through envoys who had no proper credentials and japan refused to treat with them when china was w wholly holly defeated and the japanese armies about to march on peking the empire sent LI hung chong chang with proper credentials to and tho the treaty was at once drawn up russia put an end to the turco grecian grellan war of 1897 by peremptorily ordering an armistice just as the victorious turks were marching on central greece the doer war ended in an unprecedented way the members of the transvaal government rods rode into middleburg and requested to be sent to lord kitchener to arrange peace terms with mm him lie ile met them thea but held that because of the peculiar character of the boer army the men in the field would won I 1 d have to be consulted if any assurance of peace was to be given steyn de wet and delacey went to the commanders explained the situation to them and each body in the field chose two deb delegates gates ta meet at and decide the matter by vote an armistice in the first balkan war was ended by a bren breaking icing oft off of deg negotiations tiati ons the powers then agreed upon terms and offered mediation A second armistice was signed but montenegro would not join it and went on alth the war she captured arl but austria took it away from her and the second pence peace conference which was vas successful stul met at london ninety four he takes fifth bride colorado springs colo married for the first time in london the day victoria was crowned queen capt charles A gordon Gor donnow now a resident of this city has celebrated his fifth wedding day lie ile is ninety tour four an and d his bride marq margaret dixon seventy eight gordons only son Is th the e same age as his prospective stepmother step mother |
