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Show BERLIN EXPLAINS RADICAL SPEECH BY COUNT TISZA BTSRTjIN, Jan. 26, noon, via I-ondon, 9:35 p. m. The Catholic organ Germania, pointing out that the declarations of Premier TIsza in the Hungarian parliament parlia-ment concerning President Wilson's address ad-dress to the senate followed immediately upon a conference with the German authorities au-thorities in Berlin, considers that Count Tisza can scarcely have meant to encourage encour-age American mediation as particularly promising and desirable. It declares, also, that Count Tisza did not mean to depart from the standpoint of the central powers pow-ers that peace negotiations can be conducted con-ducted only directly with their opponents. The Germania believes that his words were inspired by a desire to re-emphasize the sincerity of the peace overtures of the central powers, and state that a continuance con-tinuance of the dlcussions is not without value. The newspaper praises the clarity of Tisza's definition of the limitations of the so-called principle of nationalities, which. It says, is not applicable In the form suggested by the entente allies to countries like Hungary, where various races compose a mixed population without with-out territorial distinction. The Vorwaerts sees in Count Tisza's declarations the announcement that the central powers will persist not only In the prosecution of the struggle against enemy plans of conquest, hut also In their willingness will-ingness to make peace. |