THE COMING PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 13

THE COMING PEACE.

OUTLINED BY DR. STARR JORDAN. BERNE CONFERENCE IN APRIL.

Speaking on January 20th, Dγ , David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, expressed some fresh opinions regarding the world-wide war and the tennß upon whidh it will be ended. Dγ Starr Jordan is an enthusiastic advocate of peace, and his utterances therefore are subject ,to a large discount. He says that the opinions which he held on international peace before the .present war have been unshaken by the progreae of the campaign, and he outlined a Bet of peace plans which (he says will be taken up at Berne, Switzerland, in April. He declared that the military situation in Europe is not likely to change much or to affect the final peace. Here are the terms Dγ Jordan believes will be agreed upon:— The evacuation of Belgium and France. No indemnities. Restoration of German colonies (with some trading). German protectorate over Turkey. . Cession of the Trentino to Italy. Austria otherwise intact. Possibe independence of Alsace-Lor-raine. / Readjustment of Poland. The Balkans for the Balkans, either unreservedly or with the whip hand in Vienna. Possible autonomy for Finland and ibe Ukraine (Little Ruesia). Possible changes in the Congo. Possible attempt to make Europe "fireproof by reduction of anniee and navies and fair play in give-and-take adjustments. Dr Jordan eaid: —"There ie nothing in this war to change one's ■ opinion of war or of the possibility and necessity of international- peace. Every peace worker knew that this -war was possible, and all its important details were foreseen by eorae of us. But it ■was an improbable war, as its consequences were so out of proportion to ite apparent causes. "But when this war is over, civiheation, mutilated, emasculated, will start fifty years ahead of where it wae at the end of our Civil War or the FrancoPrussian War. '•In April, at Berne, there win meet a congress -of world importance of statesmen from every country, the 'International Congress for the etudy of Durable Peace.' These men will consider critically many propositions essential to the life of Europe, and these, in substance, every nation must accept, whatever the military issue of this k war may be. As arranged for discussion, these propositions are: — '"No annexation by force of anne, equal rights for language, race or reunion; development of The Hague conferences and tribunals; suppression of btates that begin ■waT; reduction of armaments; freedom of sea; parliamentary control of foreign policy; no secret tr " a This war, with all ite casualties,is only a street brawl on a gigantic scale. It will only serve to stiffen up the forces of law and order. "The Germans are beaten in *J a _ nee and Belgium. That ie, they have failed in the Dhreo purposes of the invasion: Paralysis of France, indemnity from Paris, and the occupation of the coast from Antwerp to Boulogne »■£««■•* Boulogne **P ort ™ e £; .posed drive of the Turks against Egypt wtu likely fail. All sides want but cannot say so and save their faces.