The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ng an advance towardpeace or an invitation to a dis-cussion of peace, that it wasaccepted as a mere repetitionof the defiant and arrogantpresentations of the Germanposition -of whch the worldhad alre,ady had many. Butthere an unmistakablepeace overture in Count Czer-nin s speech. It was obviousto him, he declared, that an ex-change of views between Amer-ica and Austria-Hungary might form a starting-point for aconciliatory discussion among all the S
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ng an advance towardpeace or an invitation to a dis-cussion of peace, that it wasaccepted as a mere repetitionof the defiant and arrogantpresentations of the Germanposition -of whch the worldhad alre,ady had many. Butthere an unmistakablepeace overture in Count Czer-nin s speech. It was obviousto him, he declared, that an ex-change of views between Amer-ica and Austria-Hungary might form a starting-point for aconciliatory discussion among all the States which have notyet entered into prace negotiations. Tlie interests of Austria-Hungary and the Fuitrd States were less incompatible thanthey seemed,-and he recouuized in President Wilsons defini-ton of A\ai--aims an important advance toward the Austro-Hungarian viewpoint, which, if true, meant that the Austro-Hungarian viewpoint was not at all that of Germany. Nothing was moie arrogant in Hertliiig than his declarationthat the question of northern France cOuld be discust onlyby France and Germany. The question of northern France 340. Chancellor von HertlingHortliDg rcsigncfl in October. January, 1910, his death wasannounced from Munich GERMANYS BIDS FOR PEACE was, as a matter of fact, the concern of all the other Allies,who would no more lay down their arms with Germantroops occupying that territory, or with Germany reservingany claim upon it, than they would lay them down untilBelgium had been evacuated and restored. This was themost characteristically German passage in the speech, but itstone in regard to Alsace-Lorraine was equally must have known that his historical argument putforth to justify the seizing of the Frehch provinces in 1871had no validity. Nor was his argument in respect to thelanguage spoken in Alsace-Lorraine entitled to any morerespect. Thousands who had left the provinces and gone toFrance in order to retain their na4;ionali
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