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Show PEACE -IS REGARDED SS BEING FiRJWAY 5Jeech of Count von HertKng in the Reichstag, Reichs-tag, Discussing , the War Aims of the Belligerent Bel-ligerent Powers, Fails to Alter the Situation in Any Material Respect. Re-spect. ADDRESS MEANT FOR THE GERMANS No Further Comment Is Expected From Administration Ad-ministration at Washington, Wash-ington, Nothing Having Hav-ing Been Said That Would Tend to Modify the President's Views. tTl 1 1 N O T O X. Feb. i ' . Con r. t von iierthriEr's speech in the neiefcstag: yester-r,v yester-r,v continulirsr the discussion of the war ib 1 "-e belligerent powers, has not .'ure-a the situation, in the opinion of ; h officia's here. Instead of markup i: a c. var.ee in world peace, it is re-sarded re-sarded rather a? deliberately calculated to strengthen the hands of the German ; ru.:ta.rist:c party by endeavor irsr to con- 1 vince the German proletariat of the irn-pracuriV-e nature of President "Wilson's war airs as disclosed in hia last address ad-dress to congress en February 11. While statins his readiness to accept the president's four fundamental prin-cip.'es prin-cip.'es f.T a basis cf peace, the German I ehazee'Ic-r dismissed them- as idealistic and tm.workable by insisting that they must depend for their application upon the realization of conditions which, can art be net. In the official view, his treatment of the subject was ironical and 'ie?ed for very different ends than the . ui ar.ee ;r. en; of peace. I Thre will be no immediate formal j 'X'iMxer.t upon this latest contribution to! the debate on war aims and peace aspira- ior.. Experience has taught officials that important qualifications are to be "-3 usually in the full text of the 1 speeches of the spokesmen of the central ro-.rers. j Attention was directed by officials to j President "Wilson's former characteriza- I "--n of the German chancellor's utterances 1 "very vacrue and confusing," and it sa.il tint the president's comment , : Hii a peculiarly apt anplioa tion to the fptech of yesterday, in w hich Von Hert-j Hert-j 1 siLrnitie-.l his fundamental ajrree-j ajrree-j 'nt wiiii president Wilson's four prin- WE'r silent Wilson ia his last address to lrefi said of the chancellor's speech, I - - a r'w days before: j "''iVseussion and acceptance of our I geral (.'ntu-iples led him to no pructie-;i;"e pructie-;i;"e con.-iusions. He refuses to applv T-n,'rn to the substantial items which must wr-stirute the bodv of anv final eettle-t." eettle-t." FULL TEXT OF THE COUNT'S ADDRESS IN THE REICHSTAG AMSTERDAM, bK 26. Kollowin? Is a irrnil report of Cti;im-el:or von Iler-y'-ss ?pteeh yesterday in the reichy- Aiir a few preliminary remarks by Hermann S. Taaii-tie, vice president J richtaR. and the first reading of buditft. Count von Hertlinsr arose a r reiciistag has a ri-iit to receive n. :xt''anHtory statement in r.-uard to Ior.''Sn situation and the altitude of f'JV':r"rlip:it conccrnins; it. It will "it the obligation arisinsr therefrom. " though 1 entertain c.irrain doubts i-arr? i"e ullllty aI"J fiwcss of ilialotrues heir on niinistei's and statesmen of n, 'iunciman. in the house of com-' com-' '""y expressed the opinion that s n 'V e' 1 In,H'h nearer peace if, in-i'! in-i'! Vii I n''s rsI,OI:;;hle representatives t-'"U'r i k,fent powers would come to- ij'o !r!t0 an intiruate meeting for uis-trviV uis-trviV u-' i' "'-v 'e wth him that riini,, lie way to remove nu- n, ly'u, (lnteritionai and unintentional n ils"('r;ai;dlnis and conifd our ene-a- i n lUKe our words as thev are meant i;t,V ,th,!ir lrt also to show their tii'tt rh cannot, at any rate, discover t'-vo r words which I spoke here on 'MH;;iS'0"s receivel In hostile ci:.-. v atl-l!l'tivly and without preju-B;rl preju-B;rl "'"WW, discussion in an Inti-'"'s'lf! Inti-'"'s'lf! "s alone could lad to un-t'O". un-t'O". O" tnanv individual ques- t:-"L? h can really be settled only j to Belgium. I '! l!L hii repeatedlv said that we i I I l relainin' IVIk'iuiti, rf.i" w must be sareeuarded from of ountrv, with which we , . -lreafter the war to live m peace and I (Continued on Page Two.) ; " PEACE 7S REGARDED 1 IS BEING FM III' (Continued from Page One.) friendship, becoming the object or the jumping-off ground of enemy machinations. machina-tions. If, therefore, proposal came from the opposing side, for example, from the government in Havre, we should not adopt an antagonistic attitude. even though the discussion at first might only be unbinding. "Meanwhile, it does not appear as if Mr. Runcimar.'s slickest ion has"?i chance of assuming tangible shape, and I must adhere to the existing methods of dialogue dia-logue across the channel and ocean, i "Adopting this method. I readily admit 'hat President Wilson's message of Feb-;,ary Feb-;,ary ll represents, perhaps, a small step , '-ward a mutual rapprochement. I therefore there-fore pass over the preliminary and excessively ex-cessively long declarations, in order to address myself immediately to the four principles, which, in President Wilson's opinion, must be applied in a mutual exchange ex-change of views. "The first clause says that each part of the final settlement must be based upon the essential justice of that particular partic-ular case and upon such adjustments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent. Quotes Augustin. W ho would' contradict this? The phrase coined by the great father of the rrtui-ch, Augustin, fifteen hundred years ; ao justitia f undamentum reemorum' . ib still valid today. Certain it is that ; only peace based in all its parts on the Pi mciples of justice has a prospect of i endurance. j Hie second clause expresses the fin- j s;re that peoples and-provinces shall not be bartered about from sovereignty to ereifrtuy, as if they were mere chattels .u :d pawns i n a. game, ovpii t he groat ! - ie. now . forever discredited, of the ; ::!l:nce of power. I This clause, too. can be uncondition-i uncondition-i -U assented to. Indeed, one wonders ! mat the president of the United Slates i vUMdered it necessary to emphasize it ,m..-. This clause contains a polemic --a i list conditions long vanished, views gainst cabinet politics and cabinet wars. t mixing state territory and princely prince-ly and private propertv. which belongs to a past that is far behind us. German Unity. r do rot want to be discourteous, but when one remembers The earlier utter-iiuyes utter-iiuyes of President Wilson, one might think that lie is laboring under the illusion il-lusion that trv-re exists in Germany an antagonism between an autocratic 'gov-ormnent 'gov-ormnent and a mass of people without rights. "And yet President Wilson knowsas, at any rate, the German edition of his hook on the state proves German political politi-cal literature, and hf knows, therefore, that with us princes and governments are the highest members of the nation as a whole, organized in the form of a -tale, the highest members, with whom the final decision lie--. Dut, seeing that they a!so. as the supreme organs, belong to the whole, the decision is of such a nature that only the welfare of the whole is the guiding line for a decision to be taken. It may be useful expressly to point this out to President Wilson's countrymen. "Then, finally, at the close of the second sec-ond clause, the same of the balance of power is declared to he forever discredited. discred-ited. We. too. can only gladly applaud. As is well known, it was England who invented the principle of the maintenance of the balance of power, in order especially espe-cially to apply it when one of the states on the Kuropea n con line nt threatened to become too powerful for her. It was only a not her expression for England's domination. domi-nation. Self -Determination. "The third cla use. accord hl to which every territorial settlement involved in tins war may be made in tiie interest and for the. benefit of the populations concerned, con-cerned, and not as part of any mere adjust men t or compromise of claims a monu rival states, is only the application applica-tion of t tie foregoing in a definite direction, direc-tion, or a deduction from it, and is. therefore, included in the assent given to t hat clause. "Now. in the fourth clause, he demands that all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction t ha t can be accorded them without introducing in-troducing new or perpetuating old element ele-ment s of discord and antagonism that on hi be likely in time to brea k t he peaee of Europe and, consequently, of the world. Here. also. I can ci ve assent in principle, a nd I declare, therefore, with President Wilson, that a general peace on such a basis is discussable. "Only one reserva tion is made. These principles must no: be proposed by the president of T'10 I'nited Slates aione. but t bey niusr lie a! so recognized definitely by all states and nations. President Wilson, Wil-son, who reproaches the German chancellor chan-cellor with a certain amount of backwardness, back-wardness, seems to me in his flight of Hea to have hurried far in advance of existing realities. League of Nations.. "f'ertainly, a league of nations erected upon justice anl mutual unselfish appreciation, appre-ciation, a condition of humanity in which i war. together with ail that remains of the c.rliest barbarism, should have completely complete-ly disappeared and in which there should be no bloody sacrifices, no self-mutila-tion of peoples, no destruction of laboriously labori-ously acquired cultural values that would be an aim devoutly to be desired. "But that aim has not yet been readied. There dues not yet exist a court of arbitration arbi-tration set up by all nations for the safe-L-i'ardinc of peace in the name of justice. W'I.ti I 'resident Wilson incidentally says that the German chancellor is speaking to t'lM court of the entire world. I must, as t bines stand toda v. in t he name of the German mpirt and her allies, decline this court as prejudiced, joyfully fs I would greet it. if an impartial court of arbitration arbitra-tion exist cd. a nd gladly as I would co-operate co-operate to realize such Ideals. '" l"n for tuna tely. however, there Is no t race of a similar state of mi rid on the i irt of the leading powers in the entente. Hm.ri.ind 's war aims, as recently expressed in Eloyd George's speeches, are still thoroughly thor-oughly imperialistic and want to impose o-.i the world a peace according to En-ilavd's En-ilavd's u'ood pleasure. When England talk--, about peoples risht of self-determination, she does" not think of applying the principle to Ireland. Egypt or India." War on Russia. I "eclat ing that the new German operations opera-tions a ea mst Russia were taken at t he (Continued on Following Page.) PEACE IS REGARDED i& bis m AWAY (Continued from Preceding PagQ-) reviue: oj the populations to re.-c-re or-d or-d e r a :: d t b. at t h t y did rot aim at co n -quests, the chancellor continued: "Cv.r war ahr.s t'roru tlie beinnins? were the ile tease o: the fatiierhnid, the maintenance main-tenance of our territorial integrity and the t'tedom ot" our economic development. Oar w a r fa re. even where it must be ac-cress ac-cress ive in act ion. is defensive in aim. I lay es re rial stress upon that just now in order that no misunderstandings shall a: ise about our operations in the east. "After the breaking off of peace negotiations nego-tiations by the Russian delegation. February Feb-ruary 10. we had a free hand as acainst Russia. The -role aim of the advance oi our troops, which was beun se en days after tr.e rupture, wa.s to safeguard tbe fruits ot" our peate with Ukraine. Aims of coruiuest were in no way a determining factor. We were strensti:ened m t ins by the TTkra i ni a ns' appeal for suaport in briring about order tn tiieir young state h:st the t'.istur'-a.nces carried out by the ir.'.sheviki. Xo Aim at Conquest. '"If further military nperu'ius in other regions have La ken phice, the same an-p an-p h e s to them. T h y in no w ay a. ; rn at con-juesL They are sole'..' Uikiuc p-ta-'e at t:,e urgent np pt-.i and rep res en ta-tion ta-tion vi t);e pon-il.utcs for protection aaifst atro'jif.t- and devastation by red z ua re a nt i other i a r. i s T ':; y ha v e . ti: ere fore, been undertaken In tee name o: human.i'". They are m---.isi'rrs of assistance as-sistance and have ro other cruirater. It i a cuest.cn of crea'm-r peace and order in the interest of peaeacie populations. "We do not intend to etashh ourselves, our-selves, for example, in tlstaor.ia or Live Li-ve ;-. i a. In C V u r t a nd and I a t n u a n : a our -ir.ef object !s to croatu organs of jseif-detenr.'nation jseif-detenr.'nation atal sc f-a-.' nupis; ration, t. u r m i 1 '. t a r v 3. c 1 1 ; n, h o v. evc : has produced pro-duced a success tar exceed ipg the original aim. "Ne s was r.-i-. ed yesterc iv th.''. Fetrorad ::ad a.'Tri'td our ovnons find sent its r-a:a---M!', r r. t ; ves to Llrest-I.itovsk Llrest-I.itovsk for 1 1 i r L 3 1 . r r..--ot'.-t ..--"rd-inlv. our d''U'.4.itr- r.t'..'1-d t'.'.,r e--nr.--. U ;-.(.(.. i-.tt rl-re w:h Still be d:s;ui'e ai-O'it ll-.e details, '-rt ti'-' np::i tlu::4 ' .1 r e;i a-.-d. Tae ; ill to p- a- e h.v-; L '-en " r - - v a n-' n-' nounced fi-otti the Ip:ss..ta s'.h1. v 1 P 1 ti'C ' con ''.::'ts haw aipc-d i the I cone in- fA of ; r.L.'e ta-t :.s w .tin 11 a I verv s.icrt p.k-. j "'To sat-uard t lie fruits of "ur peace I uth I'kraiue. our :. i;1.- .-."n.m ir! P;-.-'.v the sword. Fea-.e with K'.i.-m,i w i.l Le tlie 1 happy result. ! I Negotiations With Rumania. "Fea e n' JOtia tion -j v. it h li.-rirl 1 'a-- can a: 1-i ; ' ' s: y.-rerda v. i" - d r,e. ess.vrv thu Si-. " a ry on K a 1 . h n a should he pre -!'. t ' la. re ii ;:.!:; t h- I. r-s-t days when t'e foe t' t 1 ' ' - ut---'- i.t:d. Now. ' o-.v,-v-;-r. 'a- :d I rts..u..t Ip .o n go to Fr.-t-l.ito.sk. ; 1- ro t -- t e'i'ea'-e-r-,! r- vl- j i,-ot;atans :tli !hT.:c:.i t h it w :Lr.- :.. t tak:rv- tart n (;:; ;ii. :;.. ii.t . ( r r oblir.'-'lofs to hamr . -n 'b'- '--(,.! o" our alat-s. A :.- : : :a - i I'-'i.irp r. 1 .t t i 1 Turkey, ar : ? se to it that a .ur.pro- i nv.se nrrar-ji tc-re r-'-irduc; .ir.y i 0. rc-nt tlu.T w'l t".-- -'. ce , wnll be ovo?.'ua.e. shth rrU'"d "P. :- - a ma. too. th- guidu',- ;-r.n. .:' w '1 i e ,;-.at we must. ar. i df.-'r-j to. 1 . r :r '. i ' friends the st.ttes wrh wiu t-n t .- basi C tl e s-.;'.-vess of o ir ar::i. wc nc.- , c-u:-.lude p-'a-e. ! Fate of Poland. ' j "I w;d snv -i w...-. rucP:.; Foi-rd. : in heha:f ! who. ; p-, ,a d l r.-,:- . ri..f hv.- re u.-.ar..! -p---" I 5 I at P -a- in.e tv.o r.e j : ir pf ,, r'ore. H-r,,er t : --. ' v ' : j v' ev: i'j.'.:e u: : -t '. e- n I . ;-.v" j. -r1. ado-: i r,i 'h rr.aro' to o'.v-'w.?. p.--j; -y-' t:.e .c::j; o: c'..' r. ; s---a. t :;s rs-:'.- fiX'-n tt. de'.. :'.::'o:i c: Z"-- frontr be',wee:i r'.e r.ew 51 ii- ar.i aa.'.i--.-n- ;i; :an terr.'.o"".'. For t. ;.s reason news c: r-? i e The rkra.a-? . : S.-st rv,;...:e,i ureat ur.as!r.e. in l".-'ar..l. a n-opr re-ar: lo the eihr-zr.'.-yo;, vl'l i rc-a-oie.i. The stnv.'ir.- e,i inte'i- Trcntier Question. "In ii i r. z t h ? frr pp. i o i v " - n oriv what ir.'";.i?po.a;'"''.-, cn nnlir.ry irro'-r-is -x M te oo:r..'.nc:d on Crrtr.ar.y'? tart. " R ? sra r.Iir.c F-" '. arvi, t h a: -o i p ' rv , ? s "e l-:r"v.p wis fr-e-:-! ' G-rr::anv ar.J Aus'ri i-1 1 i r1 :;ip- (ro:n o:; -si'."-i fit?-p-rr.'.ier'. 't1. w.P: the i n Ca?::t;on or ar; ir.-i-rper.ier.t. stare into ex:5ern;e. T.'.e ''OPrt'f.;"ier.'l p''':m,!?:t.. in a mrrow ?er.t-. is s'iil in tie sta.-e o: exhaustive d'.so:s-j;o!i d'.so:s-j;o!i i-ei'e-Ti t :'e l hree co n n rr: s concerned. con-cerned. Fea.;e witii I'kraine at firs: r-:o- i-jtii crest unrest in I'p'p1 r.J. I hope, however, t tac with gol will, a corvpro-niise corvpro-niise on the corr.ict: n-r ciai;ris w;ii be reac'-.. In the sfleir.e-t we are de-r::atuiir.- ortlv what is ir.disper.sa'.'le :roir. a rcilltarv r:- of view. "T'ce er.'erae are fic'-.tii-a- for the acquisition ac-quisition o: porti'TS oi Ausiro-Kur.i-rari-;in territory h:.- Ita'y and tor ti1.-1 severance sever-ance of Faiestiae. tfp. ria and Araida iron; the Turhish empire. Krizdtp.d ha ?ir-t:cuiavi- l ast an eve on portions ot Turkish. Turk-ish. teL-ritorv. She has sudden'.- d:scov-red d:scov-red an a'.Tetion tor the Andans. anii si.e h.op-:-s ' 1 v urihn'n the Arattars to artnox fresii Territories to the Frit i si: -n;p':re. pe? 'uap'S ly the creation of a protectorate pro-tectorate uvp .-ndeat upon British domination. domina-tion. "That tiie rn:ordal wars of Kir.-'ar.d are H re: ted at iner-asivi a:;-1 rour-iin: out the erormotis Fr;t:sh possessions. P-ir-Li.'"',) ry in .fri' a. has bo-n re pea. diy .-dated ry Friti-h statesa' r-n. Lies, Says Chancellor. "In fa ee of this po'd et' tr ::te state? -on dart tij rep. resent Gern.arty as ": j disturher cf peace, who, in the interest f o :' or Id r e r e . t nu s t be c-u r u' : i; r .1 wit h ; r. t i ; e n ar r o v: est b c u r -1 3 - F v a s y s t e p. u ; Il'ts and -'al'imr-.v tliey erieavor to in- s t ; c a t e t i ; e ; r own people and p. c u t r a I 1 countries a ilnst the c:n:ral powers arid to d'.star j r-a-utrai tour.'.r; v. !ti: t';e sf-e.ter of the violation o: neutrality by P.e ira r-1 i nz the intrigues re co n t ! y r:ir-ried r:ir-ried op. in v,i-zcri:-uid we never thou'c.t. nor will we tidui;. of as-.ii'iriL: Sw;? neutrality. neu-trality. "x-'e are much indehtt-d to Swit-t-;anh VP- exnr.-ss Altitude to h.r. to Hl iirLP.d. t he Scard .navid n .'Oi;i: tries and rpain, v.-ho. ty her re--rrap:-.:al pos.tiuii. is exposed to esre-uol dihicuities." ar.d ni 'ess to the e x t r a - F . ; r o p e c. n countries w'doh have nor entered t ::e wur for their mar.lv attitmie in t'at. despite ail 1 -rn ptaticps ar. i oppress'.ons. titty pre-s--r.-e their neutrality. '"The world yearns for peace and de- : sires .notlcr.e n:ore t'.'.an t'rat the sufferings suffer-ings o f war, i;:iier w h p uh it l: r . a n s . :,uM cometo an end. Fut ti'e L.-..v,v-rr- i a r e w to s " . r tit- war f r p am. o n t ii e : r , peonies. A continuation of the war to' the utmost was. so far as has transpired. ''"" ' :.fe ".' -a kpow nri "ll;:r t'p.-p.e v,:p i 'dd o--t turthe-. h;;t r 'p- - '. e a.'or,:e5 of j "S. of '' d! f.-d' on t, e' heads |