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Germanic Peace Terms

[From the Budapest Correspondent of The London Morning Post.]

To the Revue de Hongrie, the only French paper in Budapest, Count
Andrassy contributes an article for July entitled "Les garanties d'une
paix durable," and discusses the peace terms the Central Empires are
to put forward in the event of final victory. He objects to the idea
of annexation or anything more than "boundary corrections," and says:

Our war is a defensive war, which will achieve its aim when
our enemies have been expelled from our territory and their
ring has been broken. This aim could be best served by
making peace with one or other of our enemies and winning
him over to our cause. This would be of immense advantage to
the future of civilization and ensure us against the horrors
of a prolonged war. A separate peace would be the best
chance for certain Powers to change their international
policy. To my mind the issues of this war will greatly
change the attitude of some hostile States toward us, and
will bring about more intimate relations between them and
ourselves, besides widening the foundations of the alliance
between Hungary and her allies. And this is to be the rock
upon which the European balance of power is to rest in the
future. Our war is not a war of conquest, and the boundary
changes of which some people speak are not the _sine qua
non_ of a good peace. Therefore I do not even wish to speak
about certain territorial alterations, which, nevertheless,
might be necessary.

Regarding the question of England and nationality, Count Andrassy
says:

Victory no doubt affords us the right to demand the
alteration of the map of Europe, yet, this not being our aim
and not to our interest, we can be satisfied with certain
compensations, as no doubt our enemies would not spare us if
they were victorious. Lloyd George said that the States are
to be shaped in the future according to nationalities, which
means that the Monarchy is to be disrupted. An English
scholar not long ago expressed the same view, and, in fact,
in England this idea is being impressed upon the people.
This policy is sounded in a country which dominates