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Show i GERMAN PAPERS BELIEVE 11 IS NEAR1NGAN END ' America Is Declared an Unsuitable Un-suitable Mediator and the President Unacceptable Unaccepta-ble as Arbitrator. BRITISH CRISIS CAUSES COMMENT Discussion of Peace in the United States Said to Be Entirely Due to Plight of Great Britain. LONDON, Dec. 5, 9:5.5 a- m An article predicting the approach of peace 1 negotiations has appeared in the Berlin Tageblatt, and is quoted in an Amsterdam Amster-dam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph ompany. The Tageblatt Baya: 'The moment is near when a business peace will be possible a poace which the allios and centra powers ran discuss dis-cuss in view of the securities they pos-foss. pos-foss. Of course those who consider such a proposal must not be allowed to reft re-ft turn home empty-handed. Tho Btatus quo ante-bellum is impossible since the 1 independence of Poland is proclaimed, but it is remarkable that the number of Germans who wish to annex Belgium has shrunk recently to almost nothing, while many pan-Qcrnians are ready today to-day to listen to the word 4 pacifism ' without protest. ' ' The Tagehlatt says that the fact that Germany wants a business peace is a sign not of weakness, but of common sense, Tho Vossische Zeitung also prints an article discussing the possibility of peace. It says: " Probably Ambassador Gerard is returning re-turning to Germany with some peace proposal." If such is the case, the paper goes on, America is an unsuitable mediator, and it warns Germany to accept ac-cept the services of President Wilson only as a messenger and not as an ar- , bitrator. |