AMERICAN PEACE VIEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1948, 6 March 1919, Page 1

AMERICAN PEACE VIEWS

That all Americans do not share Mr Wilson’s views on the peace terms is shown by the proposals of the National Committee of Patriotic Societies with a total membership of 2,500,000 educated men and women. The terms are divided into three categories. The first deals with “restitution and reparation,” the second with territorial, and the third with general questions. In the first, after the clauses covering full restitution and reparation, the following demand is formulated: —“The Central Powers to bear the cost of the war to the Allies —the war debts of Belgium, France and Servia to be paid first. The application of the public and private resources of the

Central Powers to such payments, and the control of the finances of the Central Powers until all such restitution and reparation are carried out.” The general terms include the following:—“Punishment not only of the. ex-Kaiser, but of the others responsible for the war and for violations of the Hague Conventions. International arbitration and a League of Nations as a complement of the policy of national defence. The Central Powers not to be admitted into the League until the full discharge of their obligations under treaty, and until they achieve the permanent establishment of free institutions, The control of raw materials by the Allies or the League of Nations until the Central Powers are admitted to the League.” The terms suggested by the committee expressly provide against the return to Germany of her former colonies, and demand that the control of the Kiel Canal as well as Heligoland shall be invested in the Allied Powers.