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S N wE le Affairs ta a a o 0 0 0 0 0 0 v s' so o 0 0 0 0 0 Wilson Note uJ Smashes All Ail Tradition I I BIGGEST THREE IN N WORLDS WORLD'S CRISIS TODAY I Kaiser Wilhelm ViLl Pr President Wilson Lloyd George i I Iy tf y S S f b L 4 S I NAtA t I 1 1 lOur Our Cou Country try Demands Demand Tha That Rights of Most 1 Powerful ll j ji I i Neutral in World Be Bej I j 1 l li i I I Observed d Says Gardner Gardn 1 i I I 1 f By Gilson on Gardner 1 I By 81 The he Special News dews el 5 Serviced Service A HINGTON Dec 26 That That I w Wv Idle ne United States intends to sit in at the tho worlds the worlds world's peace conf conference con con- f fence ference ce whenever r th that t law be beheld be held is th sig significance of or President n c Wilson's Wilsons a address dress to the powers Jowers I r i. i i address addresses l ft is an n anomaly in the the j r I diplomatic world It is neither official I 1 nor 1101 unofficial It is like Uko a good many I other things in n this world war war situation situation situation situa- situa I tion a new precedent Mediation used to be he the method by wJ which ch warring powers got together A powerful neutral nation would serve as asa asa asa a medium through h wl which the warring powers would match up tIp their theil ideas as asto asto asto to settlement This is what took place when Roosevelt got gi t the Russian and Japanese ambassadors together gether as a preliminary to the Portsmouth conference conference confer confer- ence enco which worked out the details of the tho peace between these nations Theoretically ambassadors of warring war war- ring nations do not speak peak to each other and theoretically there is is nO noI communication between warring warring na na- That tradition and make believe I have have been broken down do Germany smashed it the other day by dealing directly with her enemies The German offer of peace was as unusual in the diplomatic world as IS a a flash of lightning out of 8 a summer sk sky Such a thing never had bard been before It was a recognition that the age age of sailing sailing sailing sail sail- ing vessels and dispatch boxes and of communication by written document only had passed and that submarine cables radiograms ram and the telegram have brought all nations nations nt warring or j into and almost I into hourly momentary communication f Th The necessity that the United States act as a mediator for the adjustment I of peace views was a tradition Ger Ger- Germany many has invited a pea peace e conference of I I her own notion motion Th The G United baited States was I il left rt to odo do no nothing hing or or to tp do what pre President dent le Wilson how has to d. d done to ne-to to throw t-I t onto the diplomatic table the same samee kind of of an unofficial diplomatic tatie plan The he United States through 11 President ent I Wilson Vilson lias has spoken It J has bas as said in m ef effect effect effect ef- ef that no neutral nation n is unconcerned c corned with the great war war and the terms c of f the peace settlement The United States Stated is greatly COlt coil with the settlement of this war war and with the terms on which it is settled set set- The United States proposes to doall do doall doall all in its power pow r to exert influence on 1 both oth these questions It Jt proposes to take talc part pait officially of or or in some other way in the final arrangement ement by which wars are supposedly to be bc decreased I and the affairs of the tho world got in bettel better better bet bet- ter tel shape Neutral rights on the ocean in world commerce and r rights of all kinds will I J J be involved in 01 in tho the final peace parley The rhe question will be he considered whether I er there shall shan be a world league leas to enforce enforce enforce en en- force peace whether there shall be gradual concerted disarmament In all these questions the United States renounces its historic and traditional traditional traditional tra tra- policy of isolation We re renounce renounce renounce re- re the George Washington ton injunction injunction injunction tion aga against entangling foreign alliances alli alli- alliances ances and recognize that the world isa is isa a smaller place than it w was in Washington's WashIngton's Washington's Wash Wash- ington's days das and that neighbors are brought close se by three thousand miles of otean rather than remote Our country demands that the rights of the most powerful neutral in the world be considered President Wilson Vilson was wag urged urs-ed some months ago ao to call a conference of the neutral powers If It the answer to this informal note is not encouraging ing his next step unquestionably will be to call that neutral conference Through this the interests and rights ris neutral of powers powers powers pow pow- ers will be formulated and abd presented I to the warring nations and influence will be brought to bear on the belligerents belligerents bellig bellig- I to adjust their quarrel and end the war |