Show IMPERIALISM MUST BE OVERTHROWN DEMOCRATIZATION OF GERMANt WILL BE INSISTED UPON BY PRESIDENT WILSON Restoration of Belgium Will Also Be Required Allies t to Exchange Views Before Any of Them Reply Formally to Peace Note Wa r offIcial mui Sll ll opinion In li-i Wn Washington i has hns crystallized apparently these on forecasts ts of the presIdents presIdent's presidents president's presidents president's pres pres- ident's re reply I to Pope Benedict Time The reply reIly will await a conference of tl the tle e allies nilles but the attitude of the United States will In no manner be he constricted h by determinations of the allies as to dl 1 iio of European I territory tolY necessary to peace pence Time The 1 e sine slime qua non upon Ulon which the time United States will viii consider the cessation cessa cessa- tion Uon of hostilities will wiil be he the liberalization liberal liberali and democratization of Germany Germany Ger Gel many Matter Left to President It Is an nn end not regard regarded d here as hopelessly sl remote This is only semiofficial semi official opinion The men with whom the president advises directly are arc maintaining the time most remarkable barrier bar lar- ncr rier of silence silence on all mutters matters relating to lx peace But It Is IF an opinion so uni- uni tn among men who are arc in a position position tion to sense the time direction in III which the administration moves that It Is regarded regarded regarded re re- re- re as aJ Important The whole matter mutter has hns been left to the president al alone ne in a most niost unprecedented unprecedented dented manner Time The president Is believed be be- d to have induced induce this attitude on the part of the cabinet an and congress only because he lie has hum been able to assure assure assure as as- sure them that he lie has a satisfactory solution of the time peace problem The Time delay el y fits nicely into the presidents president's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's plans as outlined It will permit permit permit per per- mit of the conference of the allies told I of b by Lord Lor Robert Cecil in Lon London on Democratization Real Solution The TIme ver very simplicity of the demands dewan s of the time United States will also give them a force which the demands of the other allies may lack They rhey ma may maybe maybe be considered ered at first glance more difficult dif dif- I of attainment than the complicated questions which the rest of the entente is endeavoring to solve But the time democratization of Germany Is said to be in the time presidents president's ent's opinion the real neal solution of nil if the many things which the allies may quarrel oYe over k The Time one exception of the rule against Interfering In European poli- poli Ics les today attributed to the n administration administration adminis adminis- minis minis- Is the restoration of Belgium This exception Is made not because of interest in Belgium herself that herself that Interest is sentimental and not political cal cuI or diplomatic diplomatic but but because the time violation violation vio yio- lation of Belgium was the most strikIng striking ing lug instance of Prussian militarism's disregard for all aU law Leaven Is Working The apparent gains of the time Hungarians ans an and rabid militarists in the expression ex cx- x of German sentiment which reached the time state department were not regarded as extremely g- g lug ing The Time state department has Indisputable Indisputable indisputable Indis indis- evidence that the time leaven of democracy Is always s 's powerfully if quietly at work in Germany It It will need only a smashing defeat of German German German Ger Ger- man arms to make I its ts power felt from one en end of the empire to the other |