GERMAN PEACE IDEAS
FOURTEEN POINTS BASIS
NEW NATIONAL STRUCTURE
ESSENTIAL.
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received February 10, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, Bth February. Speaking in the German National Assembly, the, Premier, Herr Ebert, said the people were prepared for the worst, privations rather than dishonour. They had won the right to self-determination within the country; and they could not abandon the right outside it. The Government had entered upon an evil heritage. He appealed to the people to work diligently to create new standards; otherwise ruin was inevitable. "We hare confidence," he said, "in the indestructible creative German spirit." Dr. David, upon his election to the Presidency of 'the Assembly, said: "The war and the revolution have destroyed all government. There must be a new structure to replace the old system of State favouritism of the minority. We must endeavour to establish a democracy based upon the equality of the citizens." It is expected that the Assembly Will demand that peace shall be based exactly jipon President Wilson's Fourteen Points.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 33, 10 February 1919, Page 8
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