Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-01-13
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note: The Week fl British Columbia Newspaper aad Review Vol. XIV, No. 31—15th Year The Eatente Reply ONE may hope, though possibly it may not be reasonable to expect, that after reading the reply of the Entente Powers to bis Peace Note, President Wilson will understand several things of which he professed to be in ignorance before. The first is that the objects of the Allies in this great War are not the same as those of Germany. The second is that his ill-considered interference has brought in its wake a diplomatic set-back which should furnish him with food for reflection, and the third surely is that even a man so purblind as he has shown himself to be in the past can hardly be in doubt any longer as to the real object for which the various belligerents are contending. The daily press has already commented upon the impressive fact that although the original Note was addressed to the Powers singly, the Reply is a collective one, thus betokening a unity of purpose and solidarity which leaves no room for dissension, and which clearly shows that Germany failed in one of the prime objects which she'had in view when launching her own Note. The Note makes it perfectly clear that "no enduring peace can be secured until a satisfactory settlement of the actual conflict has taken place." In other words, until Germany is beaten, and then the peace terms will be defined by those three words, the iteration - of which must by this time have become somehwat trying to the nerves of the Kaiser: "Reparation, Restitution and Guarantees." The primary conditions of peace are outlined in the restitution and rearrangement of territory, with "just reparation and future guarantee;" but the Note carefully points out that until the end of the War, when it will be possible to appraise the full amount of damage inflicted by the Central Powers, it is not possible to estimate either what reparation or guarantees the Entente Powers may exact. The Note raps President Wilson over the knuckles, though in…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374070
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text