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Show Sen. Lodge Again Voices Disapproval Of the President WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 Disapproval Disapprov-al of President Wilson's course in continuing con-tinuing the discussions with the Gorman Gor-man government and intransmitting the request for an armistice and peace to the allied governments was voiced tonight by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, the Republican leader in the senate. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, Nebras-ka, chairman of the senate foreign relations re-lations committee, approved the president's pres-ident's reply, saying it would create a political crisis in Germany, I "The president." said Senator Lodge, "says in his last sentence that if wo must deal with tho military masters and autocrats of Germany we must demand not peaco negotiations, but surrender. With this I am in full accord, ac-cord, as I was with the president's statement of Soptember 27th. In the first paragraph tho president says that as the present German government, which as all tho world knows, is controlled con-trolled by the kaiser and the military-party, military-party, represents through its ministers, the majority of the reichstag and an overwhelming majority of the German people, he feels that ho cannot decline to take up with the allied governments the question of an armistice. With - - this I am not in accord, for tho German Ger-man government decribed in the first paragraph and that described in the last sentence are one and the same,. "My own view is a very simple one. There is no German government in existence ex-istence with which I would discuss anything. I deplore at this stage, when we aro advancing steadily to a complete victory, any discussion or exchange of notes -with the German government. The only thing now is to demand unconditional surrender. I would leave that to Marshal Foch and tho generals of the armies. When they report that the German army has surrendered sur-rendered and ceased to exist as an army in being, then, and not until then, let the allies and the United States meet and agree what terms they will impose on Germany to ensure the I . safety of civilization and mankind," ill Senator Hitchcock made this state- Wm ment: 1K "In this'note the president reaches ,JB a logical climax to his correspondence- B with Germany. He places squarely up jjl'M to the people of Germany the Issue iS: of democracizing their government and being accorded a peace of Justice, jfflli or holding on to their military autoc- i jfll racy and submitting to an uncondltion- lu al surrender. tD "In my opinion his note will create a political crisis in Germany. I be- iffli lieve the American people will fully 'jM indorse the firm stand he has taken 'WM and it is very evident that the allied 'jjni nations are giving him their support- , jH An armistice does not seem to b.o. S probable for some time to come, under ;jn the circumstances." fl |