Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-12-13 | Page 5 | Cologne Gazette Discusses Peace

COLOGNE GAZETTE DISCUSSES PEACE Would Not Accept America as Arbitrator; Too Friendly Friend-ly to Great Britain. AMSTERDAM Deo 12 via London 9 50 p m In a long article dealing with the posslbilit? of the United States playing an Important role in the con elusion of peace among the European power" the Cologne Gazette says that the peace movement In America Is not insp red by Germany and that Amer lean bankers with German names in urging the desirability of peace render a do btfnl service to Germany Such language the newspaper says is 1 kelv to be misconstrued as an indica t ou that Germany s exhausted by the war and t adds such notions onlv tend to njure German cred t with neu trsl ''t&fcps Desn te all fr endllness with Amer ca the Cologne Gazette continues Germans Ger-mans mu t not allow themsel ea to be deceived and they must look m the face the fact that America cannot be an ar bitra or in the f ght between Germany and Great Britain It would be an ostrich policy the newspaper declares not to recognize that public op mon n America taken as a whole is ent rely friendly to Great Br ta n It may be argued it is said that the Amer can government has ob served strictest neutrality but one can be neutral In an indifferent way and on the whole, American ne trahty has been favorable to Great Britain The newspaper then says In view of all this we cannot have the conf dence in Amer ca that would act as an impartial arb trator in regard to an arrangement of peace We cher h no feeling of irntat on aga nst America because she s fr end ly to Great Britain Sncb a feeling is onlv natural as Great Br ta n is Amer cas fatherland but t is ju"t for this reason that we fear prejudice and we must m a fr endly but f roi manner re ject menca as an arb trator