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Harion such as the German nation ought not to be treated by our enemies as a icond-clam "nation, hur should a term of quarantine be imposed upon ug like a Nows transmitted through the wireless vessel outside a port on which plague has sently, to Canadian officers and men, Speaking in the Lyceum Theatre, re- stations of the German Government says broken out. If we undertake to comply the Bishop of London took as his aub that the German Minister of the Empire with just peace conditions, and give joet, The Chief Problems which Beget for Foreign Affairs, Count Brockdorff-guarantees for their fallment such as in the Hoart of the Empire To-day," Bantac, in his sperob in the National the enemy negotiators may reasonably Lieut-Colonel S. G. Robertson presided. Assembly at Weimar on February 19th. demand. then there is no reason why said, inter alia: ·
they should refuse as the greatest en couragement. It is plain that we have lots to learn in the domain of trade policy. We have not always allowed ourselves to be led by the truth which in the relations of peoples is exemplified in the good motto, Freddy hast thou received; freely give." That, certainly, is partly due to the oneaided bureau. cratic staff of our foreign service.
His Lordship' said that the first of these problems was the appalling state of the housing of the poor. During the thirty years he had been in London he had hardly seen the slightest improvement in this respect. When' in the East-end he used to End families, consisting of the father, mother, and eight childreh, eat- ing and "sleeping in one room. · Could they wander what the result was? Cae
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I can group the tasks with which German foreign policy i confronted under headings the abolition of state of war, and the restoration of normal relations with the community of nations The abolition of a state of war is an argent accessity for the whole world. I is nt Germany's fault that that it still exists. When the former German Gov. crament agreed with the Entente and United State on the Wilsonian prin ciples of peace, and accepted armistice: Terms on that Fasis, Au one could have believed that peace would be delayed for so long (or that the Entente would threaten a resumption of hostilities in order to obtain Fresh concessions from the spirit of the honourable tradesman, things. It was hardly possible to bring who holds that business is best in which as. They are recently made an attempt both parties are well served. I, there up children decently in these overcrowded to settle in this way questions which an doubtedly belong to the General Peace ore, intend to place practical business areas. Treaty, and which they intended to settlemen of experience in the foreign service
He was not so frightened about all- by military pressure in a one-sided to a greater extent than heretofore, and I manner to our detriment, whereas, uc
have already made a beginning. I these strikes as some people seemed to be.. cording to the principles of peace agreed have confidence that our economic foreign There was a great desire for a fuller life upon, they were to be settled on the basis the freedom of trade which a just peace What they had got to bring into the coun- service will in future take advantage of among the great democracy of the day. of justice and reciprocity. I have re padiated this attempt, and shall continue must bring us in a manner very far re-try to-day was the spirit of brotherhood. to repudiate such altempts in the future. moved both from unsubstantial burgling He asked an officer how he accounted for Violence can be done to us, but we cannot minded mercenary policy. In this wayly right up to the date of the armistice economy as well as from a narrow the fact that the men who fought gallant be forced to nenowledge violence we shall clear out of the road the first recklessly went on strike for this or that right. We expected a speedy peace, be
number of hours on their return home.
By bureaucratic' means the economic relations of peoples, which are funda be re-established. It is not a questio of mentally disorganised by war, cannus
one State gaining economic advantages from another by means of the old diple be saved. The death-rate in the over- must allow themselves to be guided by sand. matic means. » Economic negotiators crowded part of London was 38 per thou- |
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ANAVAL ADMISSION. nord fear from a military point of view.
Freedom of trade, however, presap Demobilisation is completed. We have poses freedom of the seas, and that is done more than Amchilike. The demu. why the point in the Wilsonian' pro- bilisation to which we are bound by the grapme which speaks of the freedom of armistice implies the reduction of the
ine say is one of the most importan: Army in the field to the peace tooting for Germany. In this respect it is of We are in the act of dissolving the whole much less importance for us what the setting up of joint boards of employers The Whitley Report recommended the of our fighting forces as they existed rules of naval warfare happen to be. We and employed, before whom all the facts hitherto, and of replacing our old peace rather of the peaceful use of the sea placed. Unless we did have such boards will not speak now of new wars, but in regard to any industry should be army, which would be very useful to us now, in the East, by new Republican routes, their coasts, and their ports, Re- we should have something like Bolshevism troops. In spite of this fact, the severity sarding this main point of the future in this country The Church and the of the armistice terms is increased from peace conditions, there is no yet no brotherhood of Christ meant to work on month to month. If the enemy think clarity. The Batente last autema re until there was a brotherhood in the that they must punish us, they are in served its approval to this, and the coworld of industry. spired by vengeance and not by-justice, ditions which they have drawn up to Then he was anxious that the heart of and ara killing the spirit in which, ac place before Germany, in connection with the Empire should be a clean heart cording to their own declarations, peace the promise of the delivery of foodstuffs, Some of the soldiers from overseas had was to be" concluded. Germany has and with the prolongation of the armis lost purity and cleanliness, which ware shouldered the consequences of her defeat ice, lead it to feared that they are de theirs when they first arrived in this and is determined to observe the condi-sirous of robbing Germany of the whole country. They must not tail him it waS tions on which she has come to an agrée does freedom of the seas represent for because he did not believe it. Every C of her mercantile fleet. What, however, all the fault of the women and the girle, ment with the enemy. These conditions as it we have no ships to sail upon them knew in his own conscience, that there signify a complete conversion from the How can we bring our importation and political aims of the Germany of the past
were faults co and a recognition of the truth which one exportation into line with our economic thing was done to give them a happy
provided with Y.K.C.A. of the great men of Weimar has expressed requirements if, for this purpose, we time. Those who worked to dimine in the saying: Weltgenshichte ist have only foreign tonnage to use which temptation expected the Overses troops to Weltgericht" (world history is, the may possibly be only unwillingly lent to back them up in their campaign. world's court of justice) But we refuses by other nations at profiteering prices wanted the new generation to be better to accept our enemies as our judges on without a mercantile fleet, to enter the old
If it be desired to compel Germany; instructed about certain things than the account of their partiality. Their num ber does not increase their competence. League of Nations, this would represent sile on the part of parents had sent
generation was. The conspiracy We cannot bow to the verdict of the violent subversion of her economic hundreds of young men to their doom. victors: only to the judgment of an imbe done without cramping convulsions boys and girls early in life about the development. and much a thing could not Fathers and mothers should instruct their partial tribunal. I will not therefore, which would continually constitute a main facts of the human body. Allow myself to be diverted by pressure from the points of the Wilsonian peace threat to general pence. programme, as recognised by both sides. And just a little could Germany.enter The most important of these points the League of Nations without colonics sa imposes the obligation to submit, our wihou a mercantile fleet. According to by the way of the law o of the empire, and difference with other States to an Inter Mr. Wilson's programme, colonial-que Alsace Lorraine to provide that her voice we are taking steps for the right of national Court of Arbitration, and totions are to find broad-minded and renounce armaments which would make absolutely impartial settlement, In the may be heard as to whether she is de it impossible for us to undertake a sur sense of that programme we await the irong of becoming a French Department prise attack upon a neighbour. We are banding back of our colonies which we snap fer stata colony, or whether prepared for both these humiliations of have had taken from us, partly in con- she prefers autonomy or ful: independ sovereignty if our former enemies and travention of international treaties, and 60 Germany will not believe that our future neighbours are subjected to partly under threadbare pretexts, We Europe is founded on justice until the the same conditions. We recognise that are prepared to negotiate regarding the oleme approval of the whole of the the attitude which Germany assumed to cassion of this or that colony, but only people of Alsace-Lorraine has been given wards both these fundamental questions as the legitimate owners Future colonial to the Peace article, and her future is was wrapped up in an historical school policy is to be one of more humane treat strengthened by it. for which the whole of our people have ment of the natives. In this direction. If the treatment of Imperial territory now to suffer. This acknowledgment, we must admit we have made mistakes. goes beyond the peace programms agreed however, by no manny constitutes an ad. The activity of the missions which Gerto, then the French plan of uniting the. mission that the German people alone many formerly had, and which have un- Prussian Saar region, or the Bavarian are responsible for the world war in the fortunately been severely reduced by the Palatinate, to Alsace Lorraine is an Im sense implied in enemy assertions, and war, must, in the interests of the natives, perialistic violence which must be as that it has been carried on with barbe assured. In this connection we agree sharply criticised as the former plans of barity that is exclusively their own. with the idea of international control German Chauvinists for annexing the For years we have had to complain of over the tropical colonies, under the con- Longwy and Briey basins to the Empire. the war plans of our enemies, and of dition that all colonial Powere are sub. The historic foundation of the argument Cables: Satinetto, Beg, London. Cod. B.C. 6.5. the dreadful cruelties in their carrying iect to it, and that Germany takes a which the French put forward for the on of the war, and we are prepared to proportionate part in the administration robbery of the Baar region is too weak to. Enquiries for British Goods and Baying put the question of blame for the war, and in the products of the colonies.: be worth the trouble of contradiction. In and blame during the war, to men who
Agencies. Whilst our colonies are being seized, truth, the only concern of the French is are impartial, and who enjoy the eonid despite our strong proteste, we are at the mineral wealth in coal of the Saar ence of all the belligerents for their the same time called upon to lose valabasin, just-as formerly the caly concern verdict. This is why we hold firmly, to able portions of our imperial territory of the German Imperialists was the the Wilsonian principles that no war This refers mainly to Alsace-Lorraine, mineral wealth of the Briey basin. costs are to be paid-to-the victor, and whose recapture was the fruit of our Should such reasons prevail at the that no territory is to ba evacuated by victory and the symbol of Germal unity. Peace Conference, then one must give the conquered We have pledged our You know that Prezident Wilson made up all hope of the ennoblement of selves, and we are prepared to make good the demand "The injustice, which international relations. being effect the damages which have been caused to Germany committed in 1871 by the aned. The wealth of this earth will then the civil population through our attack nexation of Alsace-Lorraine is to be made ever and again move from hand to band, in the territories which have been good From the standpoint of new according to the law of the stronger, an occupied by us. If, however, we are to international morality, according to the booty of Might. Whoever is impartial rebuild in these territories what has been which peoples, in the games of the Powers must admit that France has a political destroyed, we will do it with our own are not to be pushed about like pawns, interest in every weakening of Germany, free labour. On the other hand, we it was unjust to dispose of Alsace-
so long as both areat nations consider protest against the enemy, retaining our Lorraine without taking into considera- each other mutually prisoners-of-war to do such work ation its own will, and even without con- enemies, and therefore stand opposite to as hereditary staves, thus prolonging the state of war, ideration of the frontiers of langurge each other armed to the teeth. Such and against their claim for any inter I will not here refer to the previous in feeling between us and our neighbours national legal pretext for such drudgery justice which was done to the German the world cannot allow for ever to re
From the fact that our enemies owe antion I accept Mr. Wilson's stand main. The Feace Conference will have Closing on MAY 10th, 1919. their victory, for the greater part, not point, because it refers to the right of as its task the creation of guarantees to their military, but to their economic the, present population of Alsace which show such a state of things, to be conduct of the war, it follows that peace Lorraine.. Bat violence is done to this senseless. Only let them not find such Applications received by the must not only be a political one, but right when, now, the French authorities guarantees by wresting away from Im essentially also an economic one. Quite in occupation are treating the country perial territory such land as belongs to rightly President Wilson bas charactes a defintily conquered one, and drive its vital members. You know what ideas rised the principle, of economic freedom ut or imprison all persons in which they are spread, with such suspicious zeal, in and equal rights as the main condition hindrance to their imperialistic the Rhenish and Westphalian regions- for the just and lasting peace for which plans, and when they commence forcible the setting up of an independent re- he stands with such authority, and we to interfere with the natural claims of nublic, which would soon come under may therefore assume that the resolution, the people with respect to their language French leadership, after the Freach and of the Peri Eccaortic Conference of by compulsorily Gallicising their mods of Belging frontiers bad been pushed for 1016 are to be dropped. It must be ap speech The Fence Conference has not ward into German territory, parent that a femporary differentiation vet, het its seal' on the fate of Alsace of Germany in the domain of trade and Lorraine. Alan Lorraine is still guided traffic would be unacceptable tá na à (Continued at fact of next column.)
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