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The Round Table

THE WAR?

Hitler's Baseless Charge About The 14 Points

THOSE who nurse their grie-113

THOSE

vances feed upon them till they become a habit of the soul. That would seem to be the case with the Fuehrer and the Pence Treaties...

He has persuaded himself that Germany was foully tricked when she sought-the Initiative come en- tirely from her on Armistice on the bosis of President Wilson's Fourteen Points.

He studiously avoids all reference to the Notes which passed between the German Government and the U.S.A. before the Germans realised that nothing was to be gained by manoeuvring and that it only re- mained to take what was offet id, Herr Hiller ignores whatever is in- conventent to his ease.

Here is his specifle charge as pre ferred in his carefully prepared speech at the rully of German ex- Servicemen yesterday:

WAR GUILT

"Germany never Had any war nims, but the Treaty of Versailles revealed

that all the others then had war olma, The robbery of our colonies, the an-j nihilation of our fest, and the de-i struction of our trade in the world—; these were the Dritish alms in those; days, and they imven't changed.

"Germany's "War Guilt was that sho frivolously neglected her urma- ments before the war. If the ent- circlement policy proves the same an bofore the war, there is one differ- ence to-day as far as Germany is con- cerned, namely that Germany's policy.

of defence has fundamentally changed,

ADMISSION OF DEFEAT

That is what Herr Hitler has per- unded himself. That is what Nazi Germany has been taught by years of intensive propaganda to believe.

That is what some foallsh people in

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Poland to be an independent State with access to the sea.

"A general association of na-

tions" to be established so as to affari national guarantees of: political independence and ter- ritorial integrity in prent mid; amall States alike.

PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE

above were not the only formal pre- The Fourteen Points as epitomised sentation of President Wilson's prin- lples for the basis of n just and dur- July 4, at Mount Vernon he had cry- able peace. Six months later. Kn stallised them into Four Principles. (1) The destruction of every ar- They were:

bitrary Power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of its single. choice disturb the peace of the world (2) Every question, whether of ter-

ritory, sovereignty. economic political

arrangement, must be

or

seliled on the basis of their free acceptance by the peoples imme dintely concerned,

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(3) All nations to act on the same principle of honour and respect for the common law of civilised society,

that all

promises and commit- ments may be sacredly observed, no selfish injuries may be wrought with impunity, und national trust may be established on the hand- some foundation of a national re- spect for rights.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

1024 by Endled Vesturs Gradiente, Joe.

"Of course, I'm the head of the house-but I'm really only a figuro hoad."

The MORNING

A

BRIGHT and October morning,

keen

(4) The establishment of an Or- The jumbled collection of ganisation of Peace (ie., a League tiny matted huts clustered of Nations). what we seek," said the President, round. the gently creaming "is the reign of law based on the waters of the lovely, cres- consent of the governed and sus-

tained by the organised opinion of cent bay, could scarcely be,

termed a village.

Had this isolated bay a

mankind" Particulars he enunciated

These Four Principles and the Five

in

CATCH -by-

N. B.

ber are nnathenu to Hitler; for they name, of ill-omen would it WHITESTONE

clash with Nazism in every detail.

England and Hongkong are inclined 10 accept for no better reason than that they have heard it said so often. But they succinctly epitomise the be, despite its gleaming, Yet it is demonstrably untrue.

Wilsonian principles on which the Who

would

suppose from the WATER Fuehrer's words that Mr. Lansing,

nn

Germans sued for an armistice lead- ing

natural beauty.

and

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Peace. They were specife- The lordly sweep of that hold and unearths the ancient President Wilson's Secretary of State, ally referred to by the Alles in their lone, indented coast was, and to spy-glass. had been at particular puins to make memorandum to President Wilson on some extent is, mystical piracy. Stares anew. Hands the it absolutely clear to the Germans Nov. 5, 1918, when they said: that their pressing request for

Whatever and whoever their im- rattling implement gruntingly The Allied Governments, sub- ject to the Armistice was only acceptable at nil

qualifications which ful-mediate forebears, these daunt to his son, who also stares, How

their willingness less fishermen and women- un the basis of admitted defeat.

with the Govern- lead blameless, arduous to make The only Armistice ho (Presi- dent Wilson) would feel justified

Tent of Germany on the terms of in submitting to the Allles," Lan- sing wrote on Oct. 23, "is one which would leave, them in a position to enforce any arrangement that may be entered into and make newal of hostilities impossible." The Germans had begun by sug

" re-

that

peace laid down in the President's even gallant lives. address to Congress in January, 1918, and the principles of settle-

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☆ MID of raucous cheerful

THE two commence an anim.

nted discussion, quickly join-- ed by the startled Ah Hoi.

Smoke it certainly is that

nent enunciated in his subsequent Abawlings the swaying junks dark, floating, ragged smudge

addresses."

The qualifications there referred to are boarded and in the glittering and, unhappily, the nearer and concerned the Freedom of the Seas, sunlight and keen, salt-laden air the denser.

the

liner or worse?

The

IF THE new appeal to the Demo cracies by His Holiness the Pope is based upon fears that an alliance between Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia may pave the way to the bolshevisation of Europe it should meet with scant sympathy.

gesting "a mixed Commissions which served complete freedom of action, the entire and tiny fleet of five Tha contingency, we believe, is

arrange for the evacuation of and the interpretation of the phrase takes the waters, brown sails in A the occupied territories from which about the "restoration" of invaded gleaming silhouette against the crews upon the junks can make remote. Russia desires no more to-

their own armies were withdrawing, day than to be left alone in peace.

plundering

and destroying as they region. Wilson disliked bath rising glow.

no preparations even for the these qualifications, but his objections went, and they had proposed She does not want war,-and-she-is-their-military-advisers-should-meet

With a favouring and suf: worst, even against their fears. were finally

hally dropped. But there was no bad filth us re-ficient breeze the four miles to Useless to flee, they-stand.............. int no position to

those of the Allies in order to "main- attempt to apread her ideology to other lands.

tain the actual standard of power un gards either one or the other on the the fishing ground are quickly their ground. All work is aus- Rather should His Holiness the

both sides. They were politely, but part of the British or French Gov-covered; the contented, hard-pended, all eyes straining under Pope oppose the real menace that is

Germans working, and self-sufficing little guarding hand into the blinding firmly reminded of where they really crnments, and stood.

neither tricked nor duped because on threatening Europe. So long as

the two points mentioned the Allies bands prepare to cast the pre-light. Hitler rules Germany, the peace of

Between their first Note of Oct. 4, and the U.S.A. had taken divergent cious nets, hoping that they signed by Prince Max of Baden, and views. President Wilson was never have rightly timed the seasonal the world will be menaced, and no their last of Oct. 27, in which they given plenipotentiary powers by the prevalence of profitable shoals. rellunce can be placed on any pledge

NOBODY aboard the junk said, "The German Government now Allies to prescribe the basis either of he may give.

heard the shot. Its report awaits proposals for an Armistice the

Armistice

Man, woman and half-grown was lost amid the crashing of of the Pence. Everyone would welcome the eon-

lads unfurl the giant net-that the mighty mast, dragging the ference of nations proposed by His

costly, cherished and pampered massive craft on to her scarred Holiness, but suggestions of nego tiations en "outstanding grievances"

essential of their calling. though well-built side. need to be watched by the Democra-

Ah Hoi, the round-limbed, brown-faced, bustling mother; cles with care, even with suspicion.

Without a cry, four 'fright- For such phrases appear to imply

eyes gleaming under reeded hat, ened people are flung, struggling strains her sturdy limbs. that pant aggressions have arisen

and choking, into the water, from just grievances, and that they

the waters and laughs with deep sunk boat.

Her hawk-eyed husband scans thrown well away from the half- should not be re-opened.

.content, sighting the shoal of sporting, silvery fish. Only the are

.An international conference which does not place the destruc tion of Czecho-Slovakla and Albania at the head of its agenda of pro- blems for discussion would simply be contioning, instead of attempting to redress, Injustices.

The real move towards future pance came from President Roose- velt. It was spurned by Germany and Italy. That is the reply Hitler andi Mussolini have given-and would have given even if the appeal from President Roosevelt had been from Pope Pius himself.

to what

or of

which shall be a first step to a just It has never been explained why peace as the President has described the Supreme War Council did not in it in his Proclamations," they had clude Point 5 among those to which changed their form of Government they required "qualifications." The

would now call wording is extravagantly

idealistic. a vile democracy." Lanting had Whit Conferents agunt conceivably bluntly wamed them that the U.S.A. be "free, open-minded and absolutely desired no dealings with "the mill-impartial" when Colonies were being tary masters and the monarchical distributed? Did the President on- nufocrats of Germany."

visage the presence of Germans at AVERTING WAR'S RENEWAL

such a Conference? Cerlainly the Allies did not.

The Germans, therefore, could be under no illusions about the general character

Armistice which

of the

I

NO, RETURN OF COLONIES

can only

suppose that

the

old-type water-pipe.

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*

Ah Hol, her husband and sons.

fair swimmers.

She,

old grandfather is silent and breathless and bleeding, achieves would be presented for their accep- Supreme War Council on Nov. morose, puffing meditatively his the shelter of the nearest un-

រ៉ duped. They knew it would be such Colonial issue would cause infinite tance. They were neither tricked nor agreed to let the explosive Point

pass unchallenged, knowing that the as would make it "Impossible" for the War, They accepted because they must.

The President's Fourteen Points arc

them

renew

trouble, when it had seriously.

to

bc

1 Open covenants and no

diplomacy in the future.

placed under

secret

2

hurmed junk, hides clinging to He appears fascinated. with the jolting, swaying stern, faced the horizon, gazing intently:

here and there with odd mis-1 Men and lads reach

the new

the

As Indeed it did. Only after he giving. For a full minute his wreckage of their majestically they may fairly be epitomised as too long to be quoted in extenso, but had threatened to quit the Confer- stare fixes to the north; he heaving, all-but-sunken craft, follows:

ence and go home did the President, who had wanted the German Colonies scrambles down the cluttered and climb painfully upon her sloping, slimy side. A second International control, agree to the Mandate compromise, the Sudeten Germans In

shot has meantime pierced the Absolute freedom of navigation But no single voice had been raised State of Czechoslovakia. It was golden sail of a nearby junk;. in peace and war outside ter in favour of their return to Germany, only agreed to with many deep mis-other shots go wide. ritorial waters,

for reasons which seemed conclusive givings and on the strength of the except where to all-if Peace was to be secure in most unqualified assurances that the manned by eight grotesque- scas are closed by international Africa.

A smoke-grey pinnace nears, action.

rights of the German minority would Removal as far as possible of all; Those who speak of the vindictive-be fully safeguarded. That may not features and slovenly-dressed, economic barriers,

ness displayed in the Fence Treaties Justify, but it explains, and though invaders.

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4 Adequate guarantees for the re-ignore the long agony through which this is no excuse--it was fully shown Unintelligible shouts

duction of national armaments. the world had passed. It was a in September and October that Herr

S

cuated,

are

Hitler's Reichstag speech is not so old that it should be forgotten in any future plans for conferences. Only two nations in the world to day refuse to give กา assurance that they will not commit aggres- sion in the future. Can our states- men be trusted to sit around a tablo

A free open-minded and abso- human impossibility for the victors Hitler would not scruple to infringe barked at the shivering, terrified with the dictators, especially when lutely impartial adjustment of so soon to forgive and forget. Mr. a principle to secure a better frontier mortals slithering upon the we remember what has happened at all colonial claims," equal weight H. A. L. Fisher, one of the fairest for the Reich.

fallen wreck of their prized and previous conferences of this nature

being given to the interests of of historians, has written:

The truth of the matter is that no cherished property.. "For Д at Godesberg and Munich, for in-

the peoples concerned,

more generous, open and elastie pro- group even of completely disinterest- stance? The

Receiving no obedience to Democracies

All Russian territory to be cua-ceeding, no Allled statesman In theed statesmen could have redrawn in have

1919 or could redraw to-day tense and passionate Parlalan atmos- gained nothing and lost much at

the their

incomprehensible. and. the round-table.

7 Complete restoration of Belgium phere was prepared." At any mani- frontiers of Central Europe in such doubtless impossible orders, two

in full and free sovereignty. festation of

a way as to conform strictly with the under-sized sailors lept, with tendency to show a 8 All French territory, to be re-more generous spirit there came sharp Wilsonian principle of self-determina- astonishing agility considering reminders from home to harden their transferences of population from one the malformation of their bow tion unless they had recourse to large hearts and exact a just retribution.

Apparently the worst crime of the

State to another.

legged frames, upon the drifting. Pence Treatles in the eyes of Herr

Were. then. the 10 Peoples of Austria-Hungary to Hitler, judging by the emphnals which "cheated"? No. Could they have got ing bayonet

Germans junk; prod with vicious, gleam. have the chance of autonomous he lays upon it, was the inclusion of were they offered a negotiated trembling trio before them into.

the better terms if they had fought on?

shivering, development,

1,500,000 Germans under allen rule, 11 Rumania, Serbia and Montene- contrary to the Wilsonian maxim of Trenty? No. Was their offer to lay the waiting pinnace.

- pro to be evacuated; Serbia to self-determination. Historians, on down their army on the basis of the The whole crew now-hack-at-

have access to the eca and the other hand, draw attention to the

Fourteen Points accepted? No, It kan relationships to be settled on historically established lines of allegiance and nationality. 12. Autonomous developinent for all ~~non-Turkiais" "^nationalities, ""and"

the Dardanelles to be perman- ently free to all ships.

All this talk of injustice to Ger many at Versailles should be viewed in the light of history-as published elsewhere on this page. Hitler himself admita in "Mein Kampf" that if Germany, and not the Allies, had won the Great War, there would be only one nation in Europe to-day Gerninity. Ho seek-an his speech to German Ex-Servicemen yesterday indicated-to rectify that, mistake. If there is a war and

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fact that the Treaties only left 8 per war nccepted by the Alles subject to all available portions of the cent. of the peoples of the Continent the Fourteen Points and the principles prehensible orders to the ap "qualifications" and on the basis of murdered craft; shout incom under foreign domination.

embodied in the later Presidential prehensive-flahermen upon the litterances. Were the Allies faithful

"SAFEGUARDING MINORITIES

Some bad blunders, certainly, were to their pledges? As faithful as: the remaining Junks. The pinnace: committed, notably the Inclusion of temper of the times permitted,

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