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Show LODGE FORECAST IS J1FILLED Victory at Arms Must Be Substituted Sub-stituted for Deliberations of Diplomacy Wilson May ! Force Unconditional i Surrender. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 Acceptance Accep-tance In any degree of the German reply to President Wilson's note means the loss of the war for the allies, Senator Sen-ator Lodge of Massachusetts, minority leader and ranking Republican of the foreign relations committee of the senate sen-ate declared tonight. The senate Republican Re-publican leader demanded "an unconditional uncon-ditional surrender or the allies would be left to humiliating defeat by a peace of bargain and compromise." "Mr. McAdoo and some of the press speak of the German note. If authentic, authen-tic, as a complete surrender," saiil, Senator Lodge. "It is nothing of the kind. It is just the reverse. If wo accept that note It means that Germany Ger-many has failed to conquer the world at this moment and that we have lost the war. j "If we agree to an armlstico now, the war .is lost. If we refuse an armistice ar-mistice the war will be won. "There is nothing In the propositions about reparation. We should bo left to the mercy of the German diplomats to decide what reparation we should nhta In "If the German note Is authentic and we accept it in any degree all our sacrifices have been made in vain. We are on the eve of victory. We must have an unconditional surrender. We must impose our own terms. If we accept the German note there will be no surrender and we shall be left to : humiliating defeat by a peace of bar- j gain and compromise." WASHINGTON, Oct. J3 Unofficial opinion at the capitol tonight was di- j vlded i,n two distinct groups. Onej view, shared largely by Republicans! in congress is that Senator Lodge's; prediction of a situation which mayj threaten the substitution of the de-1 liberations of diplomacy for victories at arms, has been fulfilled. The other, confident in the success rit..f.M.i -n r ! i i ul iicaiucui wnsuua iwjnuinacy anu I probably forming its conclusion from ja close knowledge of what the government gov-ernment is planning, is very certain thnt the president has created a situation sit-uation where he now can deliver another an-other stroke which will bring about an unconditionar surrender, or throw the kaiser and the German militarists completely out of any power they may retain. There is a general feeling that the next move will" confront the military party with the choice of such an unconditional un-conditional surrender" as will be acceptable ac-ceptable to all the allied co-belligerents or a genuine political revolution In Germany which will bring about such a surrender. It has been pointed out that President Presi-dent Wison's inquiry was skilfully framed to pave the way for1 an opportunity oppor-tunity to inform the German people di -1 rectly that no covenants of peace can be made with the men who have betrayed be-trayed tho world. Thf nrppnt flormmi nnitnrnninnl which was formed by conferences andj has the support of the majority of thei reichstag, was formed through imper-! lal decree which permitted It. There j is nothing before any of the allied J governments so far as is known, to i show that there has been any change! in the German system which would ' prevent the autocratic power which! uttered that decree to revoke it. when its purpose had been accomplished. In other words, an allied diplomat! considering the arrangement of an armistice, ar-mistice, or arrangement of the practical prac-tical details to carry out the application applica-tion of the terms of peace President Wilson has laid clown might ask: "What guarantee have we that these arrangements will not be regarded as a scrap of paper?" A close, reading of all of President Wilson's pronouncements on the subject, sub-ject, when all else has been eliminated, eliminat-ed, shows him repeatedly laying down the fundamental principle that ' no peace can be made while the German people endure kaiserlsm. There seems little doubt that unless the German people themselves destroy de-stroy the autocratic power which of its own choice can disturb the peace of the world, the allied armies will continue the work of destroying that power on the battlefields of France and Belgium and probably on German soil. The prediction is being freely made tonight that unless Germany's latest move brings peace, a revolution will sweep the kaiser and his whole party completely out of power. There are some supporters of the president's diplomacy dip-lomacy who hint that such a development develop-ment is precisely what he has been working for and that (his will be made plain whn the veil of diplomatic secrecy sec-recy is lifted. Those who believe that the president can accept the German reply point out that he might easily make as the condition of his acceptance accep-tance such an unconditional surrender as indeed might be accomplished on the field of battle and as well such physical guarantees as might be considered con-sidered appropriate. Those who distrust the purported change of heart and system on the part of tho now German administration administra-tion point out that the ministry of Prince Maximilian is formed on no different basis than that of Count von Hertllng which preceded it and that the guarantees which the present German government prepared to offer of-fer arc therefore no better than those which Hertllng offered to revolutionary revolution-ary Russia and led to the peace treaties trea-ties of Brest -Litovsk and Bucarcst. |