18 JANUARY 1919, page 2

Let Us Recall The Facts. When The German Delegate Signed

the armistice it was of course understood that peace- would be made on the basis of Mr. Wilson's fourteen points and the further points he made in later addresses to Congress,......

We Continue To Receive Letters On The Subject Of The

" indent- nity " which is to be paid by Germany, and we print one from Mr. Nowell Smith elsewhere. It ie evident that there is a good deal' of anxiety on the part of many people......

In Regard To What Would Have Been The Effect Of

the German version of "The Freedom of the Seas," had that version pre- vailed in 1914, Mr. Roosevelt speaks plain words :- " If this particular one of the proposed fourteen......

The Death Of Mr. Roosevelt Makes All His Recent Utterances

of double importance. The - following extracts from an article by bins on " The Freedom of the Seas and the Enslavement of Mankind," which appeared in the New York Tribune of......

Great Britain, America, France, And Italy Have...

Council to deal with the revictualling and supply of liberated and enemy territory, or, in other words, to see that Europe is fed. Mr. Hoover is, of course:one of the two......

Mr. Davis, The New American Ambassador, Made His First...

in this country to the Pilgrims on Friday week, and showed that he could maintain the high standard of eloquence set by his predecessors in office. He paid this country a very......

Mr. Asquith Has Defined For The League Of Nations Union

the pointa on which he would insist in regard to the much-debated ideeL First, he would declare that a League of Nations must not Ourrtsli the political independence of the......

We Confess That When We First Read These Words We

were in doubt as to their meaning. Mr. Wilson's- phrase " invaded territories" is not obliterated, and a defensible interpretation of the whole reservation is that the......

When All Has Been Said, However, Though We Do Not

doubt the intention of the writers, we admit that the wording of the whole paragraph is lamentably ambiguous. The words " by land, by sea, and from the air" are in themselves a......