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"I lie .illus w .. ,' 1 I,; ac onl iustoe. :V " i -"e pe.i e imi e a 1 M.-1 l.:h- j j orty io.i'i. Th-- people :!, in: t i.-v i j 1 ! :irt? ii' .irir,; the ! n j mi p ..i n : f i n.i i e J I ; fort.s in oriit-r to the er.i o;' the j j .ir ,-ooner." r i i " " " --:1 DIPLDMAGY OF 1150! OEPLIIli Diplomats at Washington Washing-ton Regard President's Answer to Chancellor as a Master Stroke. Will Develop Whether Germany Is Sincere in Her Bid for Peace or Is Merely Pretending. WASHINGTON. Oct. Present uihon bas mot bcnnanv 's peace note with a move which will, at one 5-troke. develop whether her proposal is sincere or merely a pretension. aniT.t ft pfe-tension pfe-tension it be. fully justify for all tLire before the world the prolong-in of the war with force to the utmost, for-e without stint or limit. At the same time, the president has left wide open the aoor to peace. Declining' to propose an armistice while the armies of the central powers remain on invaded soil, the president today called on the German chancellor to state, s an absolutely necessary preliminary to a reply front the entente allies and the United States, whether Germany accepts the principles of peace as repeatedly laid down, or merely proposes pro-poses to accept them ;as the basis of negotiation ' aivi whether the chancellor chan-cellor merely speaks for the German military masters conducting the war, or for the whole German people. REGARD REPLY AS MASTER STROKE. As the full significance of the pre?i dent's diplomacy is disclosed, it becomes be-comes evident that he has left open the way to peace, and, at the same time, left the militarist leaders of the central powers with a question they must necessarily neces-sarily answer in a way that will lead to peace or confront them with an embarrassing em-barrassing situation in their own countries. coun-tries. Among diplomats here the president "s communication is regarded as one of his master strokes. It is pointed out that, upon cursory examination, it may not show such strong terms as some mav have desired. All the president's advisers.- however, are confident that as close consideration reveals its full import, it will be apparent that it is a long step forward if Germany really means peace, and that if she does not it will strip bare another hypocrisy of German diplomacy so completely that the responsibility for prolonging th1 war never can be charged lo the abies, even by the German people them-e'. cs. NOT NECESSARY TO DEAL WITH AUSTRIA. The text of the president's communication communi-cation was made public t o i i a by Secretary Sec-retary Lansing, together with the official offi-cial text of Prince Maximilian's note. At the same time officials let it be known that there would be no reply at present to the Austrian note similar f that of the German chancellor. It ii nor considered necessary to deal wiOi Austria until the time come? for a reply to her dominating ally. Associated Press dispatches last "tM announced that the president would not make a curt and peremptory rejection of the offer, nor bluntly demand an unconditional un-conditional surrender now, because the American government did not proj.-e to fall into the trap of supplying the ("ierman militarists with a means of boNtcri n up their a rgu men I that the Germans ;u? fiuhling a " do fen.-n c ' ' (Continued ou Vige Three.) WILSON'S DIPLOMACY: REPLYING TO DDCHES; . (Continued from Page One.) j Mir ai d that the annoum-ed object- nf i thi' alliei are only to 'Mr-troy" them.! That i-i pre.-iely what President W'il on has avoided, lie ha met what tliej allied (iilomat re-ard a- a trick with! a nioc which will expose it, if a trick it be. lie has ealict upon the German oer nine nt for r vide me of its L'od faith, ami. should it not be forthcoming, I he has left with the t.ienuan lea'lers the ! problem nf explaining to their own peo- de, already clamoring for peace, v h v ' thev are not willing to accept it. i'rorn that point, the pre.idcnt passes to another which w ill oev clop, as t he exchange proceed.-, whether the Unite. 1 States jind the allies will deal except on the battlefield with the German "j'V eminent as at present constituted. I Ihe president tells the chancellor that he feels he is ' ' iiwt i f icd in msKiiil' whether' the imperial chancellor t pcakin merely for the conMituted authorities au-thorities of the empire who have H far conducted the war.'' This will develop whether M n x i mi ban speaks for the ier-man ier-man militarists whom the president ha denounced ai unworthy of a ny t rust and who regarded treaties as a "scrap of paper," or whether he speak? vrith the force of the people of a nation. This is regarded as probably the niot important jart of the president's communication, com-munication, fraught with j-otcnt poi-bihties poi-bihties (d the most far-reaching effect in Germnuy. where an active adied propa'a ml a has been ma k i ne; rapid head w ay in awakening the Germa n people to the necessity of as-uinin the l -epuu - ibi I it ies nf their own uov'ei u-n u-n i' ut and making t heir ov u peace. Hoped for Defiance. It i regarded ;t possible, if not i n deed lik'dv. that the German militarist leaders hoped f'r a curt and defiant a nsivor with which t hey ou Id ra My their phonic To ive their last drops of blood "for the protection of the fatherland."' father-land."' and with other rol li uy phrases in which the German official pronouncements pronounce-ments abound. The unanimous opinion a;4onp diploma diplo-ma 1 s i-j that the president, by a care-fullv care-fullv stiniied, most skillful reply, has robbed them of that opportunity, if thev d e s i r e 1 it. a n d has sent to the! German people themselves a new ines-s.-i'e that the Tinted States and the allies desire nothing more than ' ' a reiyn of law, based upon the consent of t lie governed and sust ained by t ho orani.ed opinion of mankind." It was frec'y conceded that a hasty reading of the president's answer miht not at first satisfy some who hoped for a flat rejection of any term? but an unconditional un-conditional surrender. Hut the emv eminent em-inent is confident that as The presi-i presi-i dent s eomniun icat ion is carefully digested, di-gested, its full import grasped, its almost al-most inevitable effect realised, and its possibilit ies for weakening t he Gonna ii military party on its home grounds eom-prohonded. eom-prohonded. it will be seen that the president presi-dent vhoe a very deep but direct method meth-od of developing sn answer for all time to the question, do the German people wa nt peace ? An armistice, while the invaders remain re-main on violated soil, is already rejected. re-jected. G eriMa ny i now- must state whether she accepts a reian of law-based law-based on the consent of the governed." or whether she -wants to negotiate about one; she must say whether the appeal for peace comes from the beaten militarists mili-tarists who began a war for world domination, domi-nation, or from a ar-ridden people ready to make a peace lasting. A reading of the fourteen points of I the president s speech before congress j ou .1 a n u a ry S . 1 iM S . makes c 1 en r t h e terms on which peace can be made. |