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<p>[Page 30]</p><p>has long since faded. Hopefully, the New Year will bring my release and the reunion with my loved ones, whom God may protect.</p><p>Politically, the year does not begin promisingly, because Lloyd George, as expected, has rejected the peace proposals. He is brazen enough to call them “insincere and empty” even though he has had no time to ascertain the validity of his claim. He capped his note to Washington with the following statement: [Beginning of original quote in English]</p><p>The Allies declare that no peace is possible so long as they have not secured reparation for their violated rights and liberties, recognition of the principle of nationalities and the free existence of small states; so long as they have not brought about a settlement calculated to end once and for all, forces which have constituted a perpetual menace to the nations and the end of which will afford the only effective guarantees for the future security of the world. [end original English quote]</p>