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rent that for some slnsiter purpose the United States sought to rob the Allies of victory by insisting upon the cessation of fighting, against the will of the Allied " y command- ers. This belief was expressed in an illegal interview with a distinguished writer, who was quoted as saying. ‘America has forced the Allies in to making peace at the ﬁrst opportun- ity instead of I " upon auislllng- ing. in Berlin. America quit the day of the ' Arfnistice without waiting to see the thing through.‘ Whether or not the quota- tion is exact, it represents the charge to often made by writers and speak- era.

It is important to remember that on October 23. rs ident Wilson turned over to the Allies the decision as to whether or not there shouldbe an armistice. His note of that date reads: ' 'I'lle President has, therefore. transmitted his BUB! pondence with the present German authorities to the Government with which thB Gov emment of the United States is asa- oclated as belligrent, with the sug- gestion that. if those Governments are disposed, to effect peace upon the terms and principles indicated, this: military advisers and the milit- ary advisers of the United States be asked to submit to tho Governments associated against Germany the rlec- essary terms of such an armistice as will fully protect the interests of the the peoples involved and ensure to the associated Governments the unre- stricted power to safeguard and en- ‘force the details of the peace to Ewhich the German Government has lagreed. provided they deem such an armistice possibb from the military point of view.’ In this note President Wilson left the Allies frees to decide "ﬁt t0 Brant an armistice if they dlssapmoved it. Then, ‘as General Bliss later wrote, ‘was the time for the Allied Governments or any one pf them to say "No, we are not dis- posed to effect peace upon the terms and Pfinciples indicated" and “we shall not ask our advisers to sub- mit for our approval the necessary terms for such ‘an armistice nor of anyarmisiiceP/As a matter of fact, the Allied and Associated Powers 1m- medlately consulted their military ad- visers.‘

As he had indicated to n ident Wilson before leaving the United States, Colonel House was determined that the full responsibility for de- ciding upon an armistice should be accepted by the Allies. It ,was with lthis in mind that in a conference of

political and military lcaders_he put to Marshall Foch the famous question, Foch‘s answer to which is in itselg -a complete reply to the charges raised against America.

‘Will you tell us, M. le Marechal,‘ said House, ‘solely from the military point of view, apart from any other consideration, whether you would prefer the Germans to reject crate sign the armistice as outlined here?"

‘Fighting,’ replied Foch. ‘means struggling for certain results. If the Germans now sign an armistice und- er the general conditions we have Just

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man has the right to cause another drop of blood t0 be shed.’

‘One of the Prime Ministers,‘ writ- es Mantoux. ‘I think it was m. Lloyd George, asked him what would happen if the Germans refused to sign, and how long it would like to drive them back across the Rhine. Ha answered. Opening both arms, a familiar gesture with him:

“Maybe three, maybe four or ﬁve months, who knows?” He never alluded to a final blow in thevnext few days. When he brought from Ver- sailles his draft to the military terms of the Armistice Convention he simp- ly said this. "The terms your military advisers are agreed upon are those we should be in a position to en- force after the success of our next operations."

House's Task

Colonel House arrived in Paris on October 28, and immediately set him- self to discover the feeling of the Allied leaders as to the reply that should bs given to the Germans. He realised that there were three differ- ent questions that must be answered. Should an armistice be granted on any terms to Germany? If the ans- wer was in the affirmative, upon what terms should the armistice be ac- corded? Finally, were the Allies, like Germany, ready to accept President Wilson's Fourteen Points and later speeches as the basis ‘for peace? The third question was of quite a differ- ent nature from the first two, sinoe it touched not the terms upon which lighting would stop but the ultimate settlement. ‘file Allies could not avoid facing this last question, however, sinoe the Germans had based their request for an armistice upon the understanding that Wilsonian prin- ciples would be taken as the founda- tion og_ the settlement.

Despite the difference in feeling as to the degree of severity that should characterize the terms to be granted Germany, House found al- most complete agreement ‘that the German rehuost for an armistice should not be refused. Among the political leaders it was generally tak- en for granted that terms cﬂllld b! given tn Germany. Two days after his arrival, House cabled to the Pres- ident: ‘Things are moving so fast that the question of a place for the Peace Conference is on us.‘ This resulted from Glemenccaus assumption that the German's would. accept any terms. What Poincairos opinion was, House did not learn. A fortnight previous. Foch and Pinchon had discussed possible returns with the President of the Republic who did not hesitate to express himselg forcibly to Clemen- ceau to the elect that the time for an armistice had not arrived. The Premier replied sharply that the de- cision must be made by the respon- sible Ministers, and he intimated that any intereferencs by Pointcatrs would lead to his own resignation. Pointcalre apparently‘ withdrew his protests for the resignation of Clem enceau would have been disastrous. Whether the President of the re- public changed his mind as to the irladvisiability of granting an arm- ‘stice is not clear.

Of the military leaders, Sir Douglas f-faig and General Bliss agreed with both Foch and Petain that the Ger- man demand for an armistice must be accepted although they differed as to terms. Field Marshall I-faig not merely desired it, but was willing to offer conditions that would best fsc- ilitate the withdrawal of the German armies intact. General Bliss insistet ‘IP01! stringent conditionslbut recogniz- vd the futility -and crime of contin- uing the fight after the German arm '.es were made powerless to resume the war. ‘We should have to go back to the days of Rome or earlier,‘ he ‘said subsequently, ‘to find a civilized nation refusing even to discuss terms upon which fighting might cease. It ‘would be unheard of to say: "No, we

haven't killed enough pf you, there are some towns we want to burn."

The single important exception among the military leaders was Gen- eral Parishlrlg. At the meeting of {och with the national commanders at Benlis on October 25, he apparently l-‘mﬂlrrld with the others as to the nature of the conditions laid down. ft was therefore with some surprise that live days later, on’ October 80. colonel House received rrom him a MW arvwtlna calm granting any armistice alihﬂllh ho stated if his opinion were overruled he approved the conditions of Marshall Ibeh. His letter was accompanied by a lengthy memorandum which was cabled to Walhingtoﬁ, in which he set forth his reasons for believing that fighting should continue. The memorandum ainﬂiasiaed the favorable military situations! the Allies and the dan- ger that German armies milht. if permitted an armistice, be enabled to

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.hey apparently preferred to bust Foch's assurance that all the mater- ial benefits of victiry would be con- ferred by his terms as completely as by a victorious but costly invasion. inch called attention to the incon- ‘ ‘ ‘ bet .. the memorandum and letter, both written on the same day: the first insisting that an arm- istice would jeoperdias victory and lmlreril the peace, the second approv- in: the Foch conditions as s complete gaurantee of ability to impose on Germany a peace satisfactory to the Allied Governments.

President Wilson in Washington was no more aﬂected by the Persh- ing memorandum than the Allied leaders in Paris. He was entirely ad- verse from any interference that might lead to a continuation of the

when it was enforced by the Judgment of Foch. ‘Apart from purely military considerations,‘ wrom Paul Mantoux. ‘them was in the minds of the states- men a strong feeling that the popu- lations, after showing themselves ready to accept every sacrifice for a Just cause would never forgive their leaders if they thought the fighting had been prolonged beyond the lim- its of necessity."

"The human mind, said John Buch- an, ‘loves a dramatic ﬁnale, and asks for the ostensible sizns of victory. But to such an argument there were two replies. The Germans were indeed beaten, but the Allies were not far from the limits of their strength, and before s. further advance could be made would have been compelled to halt and reform, and so give the enemy a breathing-space. In a month or two they would have ach- ieved their purpose, but it would have been at the cost of further los- ses. The encircling movement at Metz, fixed by Foch for the 14th. would certainly have succeeded, but the fruit of it could not have been immediately reaped by the main arm- ies, for, except for Haig‘s two divi- sions o1 cavalry, they were not in a position for swift pursuit. The rall- way system of France and Belgium had been strained to their utmost; the enemy had destroyed most of the

tricts; in the British area, rail-head was on where less than thirty-five miles behind the front. and the dis- tance had to be bridged by motor transport over damaged roads; while behind the French lines the situation was worse. ‘Tile Allies were not in a position for a. rapid and sus- tained advance. That is one justifica- tion for the granting of an armistice. m second is that rm request, could not decently have been refused, when it gave to the Allies all that they de- sired-all indeed, the. Germany could give. No honest man could for the sake o1 a. more dramatic close con- demn many thousands more to death and suﬂering. The armistice had all the substance of an unconditional surrender, except that it was negot- iated before the hands of the ﬁght- ing men were formally held up in the field.

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