President Wilson lost - no time in replying. In a Note
published as we go to press on Thursday, and after our leading article on the subject of the German-American nego- tiations was written, he said that in view of the German assurances he could not decline to take up the question of an armistice with the Allies. But, he repeated, the only armistice which he could recommend would leave the Allies and America in a position to enforce any arrangements, and would make it impossible for Germany to renew the war. He had asked the Allies to consider Germany's peace offer, and, if they thought fit: to let the Allied and American military advisers draft " such an armistice as will fully protect the interests of the people involved and assure to the associated Governments the unrestricted power tc safeguard and enforce the details of the peace to which the German Government has agreed, provided they deem such an armistice possible from the military point of view." That is to say, Marshal Foch and Sir Rosalyn Wemyss must dictate the armistice. Germany must show her good faith, the President added, by accepting it.
