four l.tights
"Then he showed four lights when he wished
them t9 set full sail and follow in his wake.''
F.... "Fnt Veyqe 'R...d the Worltl by Mq.U..."
OoT. 6, 191 7.
LET~S)
AN ADVENTURE IN INTERNATIONALISM
VoL. I
LEND MR. BURLESON TO THE K AISER.
THE KAISER AND EMPEROR
CHARLES ALLOW THIS.
'
WOULD MR.BURLESON
ALLOW THIS?
"SEDITION."'
"The nation has had enough of suffering and vacillating
peace notes dictated by hatred and German imperialism."
Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung.
The nation has had enough of suffering and vacillating
peace notes dictated by hatred and American imperialism.
"DISLOYALTY."
"The Government of a country at war with us has a perfect right .to demand that for the conditions under which
peace is to be concluded the people themselves shall be the
guarantee."
·
Berlin Vorwaerts.
The Government of a country at war with us has a perfect right to demand that for the conditions under which
peace is to be concluded the people themselves shall be the
guarantee.
"SECRET SYMPATHY."
"In spite of appearance to the contrary, Wilson's note
presents possibilities for negotiation. It is tb'e business of the
Reichstag to consider these conditions in the German answer."
N at~ona'l-Z eitung.
In spite of appearance to the contrary, Germany's note
presents possibilities for negotiation. It is the business of
Congress to consider these conditions in the American answer.
"President Wilson's reply is so clear that every true friend
of peace, every patriot, can endorse it."
Az Est.
Germany's reply is so clear that every true friend of
peace, every patriot, can endorse it.
"All real pacifists must be grateful to Mr. Wilson. He,
who, from the standpoint of peace, condemns Mr. Wilson's
note has sold his soul to the war devil and does not wish
peace."
Magyar Orizag.
All real pacifists must be grateful to Germany. He, who,
from the standpoint of peace, condemns Germany's note has
sold his soul to the war devil and does not wish peace.
•• TREASON~"
"Since May there have been many changes. One thing,
however, has not changed, and that is the complete lack of
contact between the government and the people."
· Ham burger Fremdenblatt.
Since January there have been many changes. One thing,
however, has not changed, and that is the complete lack of
contact between the government and the people.
"We are always disputing the existence of Prussian militarism, but our whole life is soaked in it. . . . Our monarchical institutions have not stood the test, and must be · set
aside. . . . The people will not stand it any longer. The people has awakened from its war intoxication."
Herr Haase in the Frankfurter Zeitung.
·we are always disputing the existence of Prussian militarism, but our whole life is soaked in it . . . Our institutions
have not stood the test, and must be set aside. . . . The people will not stand it any longer. The people has awakened
from its war intoxication.
No. 19
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THE CENTRAL POWERS HOLD
I
Belgium.
Northern F ranee .
W estern Russia
Serbia
M0ntenegro
Rumania (part)
THE ALLIES HOLD
11,123 sq. miles*
6,000 "
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20,000 "
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18,782 "
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3,255 "
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41,720
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100,880 "
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The G erman Colonies
In Africa .
910,150
In the Pacific. 96,145
In ·Asia .
117
In Austria
200
In Mesopotamia
54,450
1,061,062
Photograph from Underwood & Underwood , N. Y.
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sq. miles
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Lloyd-Oeorge •t pueen 's 11•11 u y lng
• Approximate.
u Bedde territory In A lbania.
·RESTORATION: THEY
" Approximate.
"" Beside territory in P alestine and Albania and various odds and ends.
UST LEARN THAT WORD
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GERMAN EMPIRE.
~ ALLIED T.ERRITORY OCCUPI ED BY
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CENTRAL POW ERS.
H
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BRITISH EMPIRE.
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TERRITORY OF CENTRAi POWERS OCCUPIED BY ALLIES.
A Country that entered the War with Clean Hands should come out of it with Empty Hands." -
Arthur Pbnsonby in Parliammt, February 20, I9J7·
OUR FRIENDS.
OUR~
PHILIP SNOWDEN, M.P.
Mr. Snowden contended "that it was useless and absurd to
accept the formula 'no annexation' and at the same time contemplate the retention of 400,000 · square miles of territory
held by Germany before the war, even on the conditions laid
down by Mr. Asquith-that this was not militarism, but part
of the fulfillment of the divine mission laid on the British
people to relieve the oppressed wherever they might be
found ... ·'· It would be a delusion and a mockery so long as
those statesmen stood by the terms and conditions of the
Allied Note to President Wilson. · That Note must be repudiated."
MR. LEES SMITH, M.P.
He said that "the next move to.w ard peace la~ with this
country (England), for this country held the key of the situation in her hands-the conquest of the German colonies . . ..
If we insisted upon retaining our hold on the German colonies, then nothing could be done, for in such circumstances
we could not ask our Allies to modify their demands."
LLOYD-GEORGE.
"It (Mesopotamia) will never be restored to .. . . the
Turk. . . . . That same observation applies to Armenia."
"This is a fight to the finish."
W. H. LONG, BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY.
"We acquired possession of different German colonies in
various parts of the worrd as a consequence of this war. Let
no man think these territories will ever return to German
rule."
W.A. HOLMAN, PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND.
"It is a fact that as a result of the war Northern New
Guinea has fallen into our hands. We propose to keep it."
W. F. MASSEY, PRIME MINISTER OF
NEW ZEALAND. .
"New Zealand holds Samoa, ~d means to retain it."
THE AUSTRALIAN SENATE.
The Australian Senate has passed a motion deprecating
the return of the captured German colonies to Germany.
ITALIAN SOCIALISTS AND GENERAL FEDERATION
OF LABOR.
"Our party proclaims the necessity of a peace, not only
without forcible annexation, but also respectful of autonomy
for all, which leaves to each people the selection of its own
grouping; which, together with international control of the
channels and all other points of confluence of human races,
and the most absolute freedom of the seas, will suppress the
most immediate causes of conflict in the future."
BARON MOTONO, JAPANESE MINISTER OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
"The absence of any allusion to the future disposal of the
German colonies has justly attracted the attention of public
opinion in Japan .... - I am happy to say that a satisfactory
understanding exists among all the allies on this point."
BARON SONNINO, ITALIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS.
"Baron Sonnino continued that the recent proclamation of
the Commander of the Italian troops in Albania reconfirmed
the special interest whicb. the Italian Government had iJJ. the
destinies of that great people 'which are intimately bound up
no less than our certain and direct possessions of Avlona
and its territory, with the general settlement of the Adriatic
question, which is a vital one for Italy.'"
BUND NEUES VATERLAND.
(New Fatherland Alliance.)
"To the monstrous proposal of converting 16,ooo,ooo foreign and hostile human beings into compulsory members of
the German Empire there is thus added a second monstrosity
(deprivation of political rights). No sane person will believe
that any such forcible subjection would be permanent. -It
would rather be avenged fearfully upon the German nation."
"The annexation of Belgium would be viewed in all countries as the forcible subjugation of a maltreated free nation,
wholly clear of responsibility for her sad fate."
DR. ALBERT RITTER.
"The northern part of Venetia, the districts of Friuli and
Treviso, up to a lin.e running from the south end of Lake
Garda to the mouth of the Piave, must be taken as a glacis
at the foot of the Alps in order to ward off from Austria's
Adriatic coast all future menace."
AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS.
"As regards particular national questions the delegates
have declared themselves against the annexation of Belgium,
and for the political independence of the Serbian people as
well as for a free access for Serbia to the sea by means of a
union with Montenegro. The Balkan states can arrange their
political relations with one another by mutual agreement and
themselves realize the old demand 'The Balkans for the
Balkan peoples' by a federation."
EX-PREMIER RIBOT.
"The restoration of Alsace and Lorraine is not one of
those questions that may be given over to discussion by
diplomats."
THE GERMAN PROFESSORS.
"We must keep Belgium .... firmly in our hands as regards political and military matters and as regards economic
interests."
"We must ruthlessly weaken France politically and economically for the sake of our existence, and we must improve
against her our strategical position."
"We must organize upon the continent, in immediate connection with our land frontiers. . . . the broadest possible continental economic domain.... For this purpose it is important permanently to secure Austria-Hungary, the Balkans,
Turkey and Asia Minor to the Persian Gulf against Russian
and English ambitions."
MEMBERS OF THE REICHSTAG.
"The Reichstag labors for peace and a mutual understanding and lasting reconciliation among the nations. Forced
acquisitions of territory and political, economic, and financial
violations are incompatible with such a peace."
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GEORG LEDEBOUR, MEMBER OF THE REICHSTAG.
"We are convinced that events must happen in Germany
as they have happened in Russia. . . . We must soon introduce
a republic in Germany, and we shall propose that the Constitution Committee take preparatory steps in that direction."
PHILLIP SCHEIDEMANN, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
REICHSTAG.
"In order to obtain it (peace) we must, uninfluenced by
the momentary state of the war, unswervingly stick to the
programme which the Council of Workers and Soldiers and
the German Reichstag have drawn up-a general peace Without conquests and -w ithout indemnities."
HERR VON SALZMANN.
"An united African . Colon:.~l Empire, closely connected
with the German mother cou11:try, would constitute for all
time such a strategic strengthening of our position of world
power that we should never again have to fear an attack in
the present form of complete encirclement."
GENERAL SMUTS.
"One of the by-products of the war has been that the
whole world outside of Eurppe has been cleared of the enemy. (Cheers.) Germany has been swept from all the seas
and all the continents except Central Europe. . . . When peace
comes to be made you have all these cards in your hand, and
you can go carefully into the question of what is necessary
for. . . . the future security of the Empire, and can say what
you are going to keep and what you are going to give away."
MATTHIAS ERZBERGER, LEADER OF THE
CENTRISTS.
"The annexationists would prolong the war at the cost
of the people's blood. We refuse peace at any price, but
seek peace on the terms of the Reichstag majority."
RUSSIAN COUNCIL OF WORKERS' AND SOLDIERS'
DELEGATES.
"You must force your Government to proclaim resolutely
the platform of peace without annexations or indemnities and
the right of the people to settle their destinies."
"The unanimous decision of the international proletariat
will be the first victory over the international Imperialists.
Proletariat of all countries, unite!"
CHANCELLOR MICHAELIS.
"The Germans wish to conclude peace as combatants who
have successfully accomplished their purpose and proved
themselves invincible first.''
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Editors ofthis Issue
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PAULINE KNICKERBOCKER ANGELL.
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