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Show PARIS TEMPS DOES I NOT DESIRE PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY PA Ft IS. tef-. 22, 5 p. m. The Temps, which carries great political weight, alter alluding to what it terms the courteous and precise form of President Wilson's note, says: "It certainly -seems that the Washington Washing-ton cabinet, in its desire for peace, has ; neglected to look the problem in the face ' and weigh the real evidence. " " , President Wilson's fundamental error i dates far back, to Ills refusa,! to pass upon : the Initial responsibility 'for the war. Judge what the two groups of helligeren ts say and think about peace! Gun one for- I get that one of them deliberately broke tiie peace while the other did everything to keep it?" The Temps remarks that President Wilson seems to see in Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's speech a declaration of respect for tlie rights of small nations, and asks: "Can one forget in this connection the wrong of Austria-Hungary against Serbia; Ser-bia; the wrongs of Germany against Lel-gium?" Lel-gium?" After saying tliat the war map put forward for-ward by Germany in her peace proposals propos-als presents only an outward, momentary momen-tary appearance of the situation, the Temps concludes: "The wish of the United States for peace was ours and tliat of our allies thirty months ago. The war was imposed on us by a people eager for conquest, and now we want that victory which alone will create a durable peace." |