PEACE WITH THE ALLIES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 7

PEACE WITH THE ALLIES

POSSIBLE ON BASIS OF AMERICA'S PRINCIPLES STATEMENT BY GERMAN CHANCELLOR LONDON, 26th February. •Speaking in the fieichstag, Count yon Hertling (the German Chancellor) agreed that peace could be discussed on the basis of President Wilson's principles if the Entente Powers accept. The-principles of peace negotiations as stated by President Wilson yrere-as follow : (1) That each part of the final settlement must be based upon the essential justice of that particular case and upon such adjustments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent. (2) That peoples and provinces are riot to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a. game, even the great- game, now for ever discredited, of the balance of power; but (3) That territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival States; (4) That all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be liEely in time to break the peace oi Europe, and consequently of the world.