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The Round Table

IF THE new appeal to the Demo- cracles by His Holiness the Pope is Lased 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 sennt sympathy:

That contingency, we believe, is remote. Russia destres no more to-

THE WAR?

Hitler's Baseless Charge About The 14 Points

T

HOSE who nurse their gric-13 Poland to be an independent vances feed upon them till 14 "A general association of na-

State with access to the sea. they become a habit of the soul. That would seem to be the case with the Fuehrer and the Peace Treaties.

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

tions" to be established so na to afford national guarantees of political independence and ter2) ritorial integrity to great and small States alike. "PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE

The Fourteen Points as epitomised above were not the only formal pre- sentation of President Wilson's prin- able, peace. ciples for the basis of a just and dur- Six months Inter. оп

Ile studiously avoids all reference to the Notes which passed between July 4, at Mount Vernon he had cry the German Government and the stallised them Into Four Principles. U.S.A before the Germans realised They were: that nothing was to be gained by manoeuvring and that it only re- mained to take what was offered. Herr Hitler ignores whatever is in- convenient to his case.

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

WAR GUILT

"Germany nover had any war nima, but the Treaty of Veraalllen revealed that all the athers then had war aims, The robbery of our colonies, the an- nihilation of our feat, and the de- struction of our trade in the world- thead were the British aims in those days, and they haven't changed,

Germany's 'War Guilt' was

that

on.

she rivolously neglected her arma- ments before the "war. If the elrelement polley proves the samo ne. before the war, there is one differ- enco Lo-day as far as Germany is con- cerned, namely that Germany's policy

(1) The destruction of every or-

bitrary Power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of lis-single cholce disturb the peace of the world.

or

(2) Every question, whether of ter-

ritory, sovereignty, economie politicnt arrangement, must be settled on the basis of their free acceptance by the peoples Imme- diately concerned.

(3)

All nations to not on the same principle of honour and respect for the common law of civilised society, so that all promises and commit- ments may be sacredly observed, no selfish Injuries may be wrought with

and national trust impunity, may be established on the hand- some foundation of a national re- spect for rights.

(4) The establishment of an Or-

ganisation of Nations).

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

United Foxlare brodtenta, Ion

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

The MORNING

BRIGHT and keen October morning.

The jumbled collection of

of Peace (le,, a League tiny matted huts clustered round the gently creaming waters of the lovely, cres-

of defence has fundamentally changed. What we secie," said the President, Is the reign of law based on the

ADMISSION OF DEFEAT

That is what Herr Hitler has suaded himself. That is what Nazi Germany has been taught by years of intensive propaganda to believe. That is what some foolish people in

consent of the governed and sur- con

tained by the organised opinion of mankind."

These Four Principles and the Five he enunciated in Septem- Particulars

clash with Nazism in every detail.

cent bay, could scarcely be termed a village.

Had this isolated bay a

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to accept for no better reason than gut they succinctly epitomise the bc, despite its gleaming, England and Hongkong are inclined ber are annthema to Hitler, for they name, of ill-omen would it WHITESTONE that they have heard it said so often. Wilsonian principles on which the natural beauty.

Yet it is demonstrably untrue.

Who would suppose from

Germans sued for an armistice lead- the

Fuchrer's words that Mr. Lansing, ally referred to by the Allies in their lone, indented coast was, and to spy-glass.

ing to They were

The lordly sweep of that held and unearths the ancient Stares anew. Hands the some extent is, mystical piracy. Whatever and whoever their im- rattling implement gruntingly

President Wilson's Secretary of State, had been at particular pains to make memorandum to President Wilson on it absolutely clear to the Germans

Nov. 5, 1918, when they said: that their pressing request for an Armistice was only acceptable at all on the basis of udniitted defeat,

"The only Armistice he (Presl- dent Wilson) would feel justified in submitting to the Allies," 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 a re- newal of hostilities impossible.""

gesling should

Lip

The Allied Governments, sut

☆.

ject to the qualifications which fol- mediate forebears, these daunt-to his son, who also stares. low declare their willingness less fishermen and women- to make peace with the Govern- lead blameless, arduous and ment of Germany on the terms of

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peace laid down in the President's even gallant lives.

January. ddress to Congress In

A 1918, and the principles of settic- mont enunciated in his subsequent AMID a din of raucous cheerful addresses."

Sawlings the swaying junks The qualifications there referred to are boarded and in the glittering

The Germans had begun by sug-concerned the affect invernments re: sunlight and keen, salt-laden air

"n mixed Commission" which on which the Allied arrange for the evacuation of served complete freedom of action, the entire and tiny fleet of five and the interpretation of the phrase takes the waters, brown sails in Occupied territories from which about the "restoration" of invaded gleaming silhouette against the their own armies were withdrawing regions. Mr. Wilson disliked bath rising glow. plundering and destroying day than to be left alone in pence. vent, and they had proposed that these qualifentions, but his objections

She does not want war, and she is

their military advisers those af the Allies

as they

mect

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THE two commence an anim-

ated discussion, quickly join-

Smoke it certainly is that dark, floating, ragged smudge and, unhappily, the nearer and the denser

ed by the startled Ab Hoi.

A

liner or worse?

The

crews upon the junks can make no preparations even for the With a favouring and suf- worst, even against their fears. were finally dropped.

Useless to flee, they stand But there was no bad faith as re-ficient breeze the four miles to

-in-no-position-to-altempt-to-tain the actual standard of power on gards either one or the other on-the the-fishing- ground-are-quickly their ground. All work is sus•

spread her ideology to other lands. Rather should His Holiness the Pope oppose the real menuce that is threatening Europe. So long na Hitler rules Germany, the peace of the world will be menaced, and no

reliance can be placed on any pledge he may give.

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stood.

in. "main- |

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both sides." They were politely but part of the British or French Gov-covered; the contented, hard.pended, all eyes straining under firmly reminded of where they really ernments, and the Germans were working, and self-sufficing little guarding hand into the blinding

neither tricked nor duped because on the two points mentioned the Allies bands prepare to cast the pre-light. 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 their last of Oct. 27, in which they given plenipotentiary powers by the

NOBODY aboard the junk said, "The German Government now Allies to prescribe the basis either of Prevalence of profitable shoals. heard the shot. Its report awaits proposals for an Armistice the Armistice or of the Pence.

Man, woman and half-grown was lost amid the crashing of which shall be a first step to a Just

It has never been explained why lads unfurl the giant net--that the mighty mast, dragging the pence as the President has described the Supreme War Couneli did not in- costly, cherished and pampered massive craft on to her scarred it in his Proclamations," they had clude Point 5 among those to which essential of their calling. changed their form of "Government they

though well-built side. Ah Hol, the round-limbed,

required "qualifications." The extravagantly idealistic.

Everyone would welcome the eon- ference of nations proposed by Holiness, but suggestions of nego- tiations on "outstanding grievances" to what Herr Hiller would now call wor

call wording is need to be watched by the Democra cles with care, even with suspicion. For auch phrases appear to imply that past aggressions have arisen from just grievances, and that they should not be re-opened.

An international conference which does not place the destruc- tion of Czecho-Slovakia 'and Albanis at the head of its agenda of pro- blems for discussion would simply be condoning, instead of attempting to redress, injustices.

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

assurance

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 an that they will not commit. aggres- sion in the future. Can our states- men be trusted to sit around a table with the dictators, especially when we remember what has happened at previous conferences of this nature at Godesberg and Munich, for in- stance? The Democracies have gained nothing and lost much at the round-table.

All this talk of Injustice to Ger- many at Versailles should be viewed in the light of history-ės published elsewhere on this page. Ilitler himself admits 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 Germany. Ho sccks—as his speech to Gorman Ex-Servicemen yesterday indicated-to rectify that mistake. If there is a war and

marcy for the Democracies than they showed the Germans at Var-" sailles.

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AVERTING WAR'S RENEWAL

VO vile democracy." Lansing had What Conference could conceivably brown-faced, bustling mother, Without a cry, four fright- bluntly warned them that the U.S.A. be "free, open-minded and absolutely eyes gleaming under reeded hat, ened people are flung, struggling desired no dealings with "the mill-impartial" when Colonies were being strains her sturdy limbs. and choking, into the water, tary masters and the monarchical distributed? Did the President en- autocrats of Germany,"

Her hawk-eyed husband scans thrown well away from the half- visage the presence of Germans at such + Conference? Certainly the the waters and laughs with deep sunk boat. Allies did not.

content, sighting the shoal of

Ah Hoi, her husband and sons NO RETURN OF COLONIES sporting, silvery fish. Only the are fair swimmers.

She, character of the Armistice which Supreme War Council on Nov.

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only suppose that

old grandfather is silent and breathless and bleeding, achieves would be presented for their accep-urced to let the explosive Faint morose, puffing meditatively his the shelter of the nearest un- lance. They were neither tricked nor are unchallenged, knowing that the old-type water-pipe. duped. They knew it would be such Colonial issue would

harmed junk, hides clinging to cause infinite He appears fascinated with the jolting, swaying stern.

be faced the horizon, gazing intently trouble when it had to renew the war. They seriously.

here and there with odd mis-

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

as would make it impossible" for them to accepted because they must.

The President's Fourteen Points are too long to be quoted in extense, but they may fairly be epitomised ப follows:

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can

the

5

Men and lads reach the.

As indeed it did. Only after he giving. For a full minute his wreckage of their majestically had threatened to quit the Confer stare fixes to the north; the heaving, all-but-sunken craft, ence and go home did the President,

who had wanted the German Colonics scrambles down the cluttered and climb painfully upon her sloping, slimy side. A second Open covenants and no secret agree to the Mandate, compromise the Sudeten Germans in the

placed under international control,

shot has meantime pierced the diplomacy in the future.

been

raized.

State of Czechoslovakia. It was goldon sail of a nearby junk;

But no single voice had

now

2 Absolute freedom of navigation in favour of their retum to Germany, only agreed to with many deep mis- other shots go wide.

in peace and war outside ter- ritorial waters,

for reasons which seemed conclusive except where to all-if Pence was to be secure in most unqualified assurances that the manned by eight grotesque- givings and on the strength of the A smoke-grey pinnace nears, Beas are closed by international Africa, action..

rights of the German minority would 3 Removal as far as possible of all

economic barriers,

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Those who speak of the vindictive-be fully safeguarded. That may not features and slovenly-dressed, ness displayed in the Peace Treatles this is no excuse it was fully shown Unintelligible

justify, but it explains, and--though invaders. Adequate guarantees for the re-ignore the long agony through which in September and October that Herr barked at the shivering, terrified

shouts duction of national armaments. the world had passed. It was "A free, open-minded and abso-human impossibility for the victors Hitler would not scruple to infringe

the lutely impartial adjustment of so soon to forgive and forget, Mr. a principle to secure a better frontier mortals slithering upon all colonial claims," equal weight H. A L. Fisher, one of the fairest

***fallen wreck of their prized and the Reich. The truth of the matter is that no cherished property. being given to the interests of of historians, has written: For a group even of completely disinterest the peoples concerned,

more generous, open and elastic pro-

Receiving no obedience to All Russian territory to be eva-ceeding, no Allied statesman in the statesmen could have redrawn „în· their incomprehensible

lense and

cuated.

Inhere was

Parisian atmos-

Lor

1919 or could redraw to-day

the

:

and

7 Complete restoration of Helgjuntation Dept At any man frontiers of Central Europe' in such doubtless impossible orders, two

tendency 10% show a

in full and free, sovereignty.

a way ny to conform steletly with the under-sized sailors lept, with All French territory to be re-more generous spirit there camo sharp tion unless they bad recourse to large the malformation of their bow. Wilsonian principle of self-determina- astonishing aglilty considering stored and the wrongs of 1871 reminders from home to harden their transferences of population from one righted.

hearts and exact a just retribution, Readjustment of Italian frontiera

Apparently the worst crime of the State to another.

legged frames, upon the drifting on lines of nationality.

Were, then, the Peace Trenules in the eyes of Herr

Germans junk; prod with vicious, gleam- 10 Peoples of Austria-Hungary to Hitler, Judging by the emphasis which better terms if they had fought on7 ng bayonot

"cheated"? No. Could they have got

the shivering, development.

1,500,000 Germans under alien rule, Treaty? No. Was their offer to lay the waiting pinnace.

before them into Rumania, Serbia and Montene-contrary to the Wilsonian maxim of

de evacuated; Serbia to self-determination. Historians,...

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gro

the Fourteen Paints accepted? No, It

have access to the sen and Bal- the other hand, draw attention toh Gown their arms on the basin of the The, whole crow now hack at kan relationships to be settled fact that the Treailes only lett 3 per was accepted by the Aillea subject to all available portions of the on historically established lines cent. of the peoples of the Continent Fourteen Points and the principles prehensible orders to the ap

"qualifications" and on the basis of murdered craft: shout incom- of alleptance and rationality,

embodied in the Inter Presidentini

under foreign domination.

12 Autonomous development for all RENNE

non-Turkish nationalities, and

the Dardanelles to be perman ently free to all ships,

the

*SÅFEGUARDING- MINORITIES utterances Were the Allies faithful prehensive flahermen upon the Some bad blunders, certainly, were to their plodges? As faithful as the remaining junks. The pinnace committed, notably the inclusion of temper of the times permitted. A: PLEASE Tara To Pads 19,

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