Europäischer Geschichtskalender.: Europäischer Geschichtskalender. Neue Folge. Vierunddreißigster Jahrgang. 1918. Zweiter Teil.

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Persistent identifier:: schulthess_kalender

Title:: Europäischer Geschichtskalender.

Editor:: Riess, Ludwig; Delbrück, Clemens von; Schulthess, Heinrich; Stahl, Wilhelm; Roloff, Gustav; Jäckh, Ernst

Document type:: Multivolume work

Collection:: deutschesreich

DDC Group:: Geschichte

Copyright:: Ewiger Bund

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Persistent identifier:: schulthess_kalender_059b

Title:: Europäischer Geschichtskalender. Neue Folge. Vierunddreißigster Jahrgang. 1918. Zweiter Teil.

Editor:: Stahl, Wilhelm

Volume count:: 59b

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: deutschesreich

Publication year:: 1922

Scope:: 886 Seiten

DDC Group:: Geschichte

Copyright:: Ewiger Bund

Language:: German

Subtitle:: Der ganzen Reihe LIX. Band.

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Title:: XXVII. Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika und Kanada.

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616 Anhang in den Pereinigten Staaten. (Okt. 27.) against Germany the necessary terms of such an armistice as will fally protect the interests of the peoples involved, and insure to the associated Governments the unrestricted power to safeguard and enforce the details. of the peace to which the German Government has agreed, provided ther deem such an armistice possible from the military point of view. Should such terms of armistice be suggested, their acceptance by German) will afford the best concrete evidence of her unequivocal acceptance of the teims and principles of peace from which the whole action proceeds. The President would deem himself lacking in candour did he not boint out in the frankest possible terms the reason, why extraordinary safeguards must be demanded. Significant and important as the con- stitationa! changes seem to be which are spoken of by the German Foreign Secretary in his note of the 20th of october. it does not appear that the principle of a government responsible to the German people has yet been fulli# worked out or that any guarantees either exist or are in contemplation. that the alternation of principle and of practice, now partially agreed upon. will be permanent. Moreover. it does not appear. that the heart of the present difficult)y has been reached. It may be that future wars have been brought under the control of the German people, but the present war has not been, and it is with the present war that we are dealing. It is evident, tbat the German people hbave no means of commuanding the acquiescence of the military authorities of the Empire in the popular will, tbat the power- of the King of Prussia to control the policy of the Empire is unimpaired, that the determining initiative stil! remains with those, who have bitherto been the masters of Germany. Feeling that the whole peace of the world depends now on plain speaking and straightforward action, the President deems it his duty to say without any attempt to soften what may seem harsh words, that the nations of the world do not and cannot, trust the word of those who have hitherto been the masters of German policy, and to point out once more, that in concluding peace and attempting to undo the infinite injuries and injustices of tbis war, the „Government of the UCnited States cannot deal with any but veritable representatives of the German pecople who have been assured of a genuine constitutional standing as the real rulers of Germany. If it must deal whit the military masters and the monarchical autocrats of Germany) now, or if it is likely to have to deal with them later in regard to the international obligations of the German Empire, it must demand not peace negations, but surrender. Nothing can be gained by leaving this essential thing unsaid. Accept, Sir. the renewed assurance of my high Consideration. Robert l.ansing. (S. dazu Tl. 1 S. 390 f.) 27. Okt. Vierte deutsche Note an Wilson. Als Antwort auf die amerik. Note v. 23. wird folgende Antwort- note abgesandt: Die deutsche Regierung hat von der Antwort des Präsidenten der Ver. Staaten Kenntnis genommen. Der Präsident kennt die tiefgreifenden Wandlungen, die sich in dem deutschen Verfassungsleben vollzogen haben und vollziehen. Die Friedensverhandlungen werden von einer Volksregierung geführt, in deren Händen die entscheidenden Machtbefugnisse tatsächlich und verfassungsmäßig ruhen. Ihr sind auch die militärischen Gewalten unterstellt. Die deutsche Regierung sieht nunmehr den Vorschlägen für einen Waffen- stillttand entgegen, der einen Frieden der Gerechtigkeit einleitet, wie ihn.

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