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Shylock on the Saar Valley ques
tion, saying: "Yes, you may hav<
your ton of coal, but not one Ger
man soul shall be sacrificed in pet
tins it."
Wilson Determined
Against Concessions
About twelve American now?
paper correspondents, including my
self, spoke to Ray Stannard Bake
it' his return from his evening visi
to President Wilson last nighi
Baker said the President told hir
lie intended to stand upon his priri
ripies, which the Allies accepted i
the armistice terms and other docu
ment?, and does not mind if thi
fact is publicly known.
Baker also said that the repot
was untrue that Mr. Wilson had si
any time limit for the Allies t
formulate a peace which conform
to his principles. He said that Mi
Wiison remarked to him:
"What is the use of a league o
nations if an unjust peace is made?
Baker was not authorized t
state the significance of the reca
by the President of the liner (?eorg
Washington, which has been use
as tiie Presidential transport be
tween America and France.
The President said that Premie
Clemenceau has within the last wee
been arguing for the annexation c
German territory.
Mr. Biker declined to commet
on the situa, ion between the Pr?s
?lent and Colonel House. Jt is tit
mistakably evident, however, th:
Colonel House deplores Mr. Wi
son's drastic action and is ondea'
oring to reconcile the conflictin
elements and save tho situatio
from calamity.
Recently Baker informed me th;
rile President would make a pub]
statement of his case if he four
rhe views of the United States an
the Allies hopelessly irreconcilabl
Tim present threat would seen
therefore, to be the President
penultimate move.
A Terrible Blight
On the Conference
From another source equally hi,c
I learn that Mr. Wilson is worn ou
like the other members of the cou:
cil of four, and is irritated. It
evident, that Lloyd George wi
soothed by Colonel House's ami
bility, and on the strength of tha
and facing as he did constant cri
icisnis and press attacks and polil
cal difficulties at home, ?rave out ?
encouraging statement on Saturda
A terrible blight has been ca
upon the conference, which on
Saturday rejoiced in the Briti:
announcement that practical agre
ment had been reached on all tfc
.'important questions. Correspo
dents could not refuse to cable su.
information directly imparted fro
so high a source and substantial
corroborated by the highest sour
ic the Crillon Hotel but, neverth
less, as cablegrams indicated, m
givings survived.
It was known that Colonel Hou
was negotiating in President W
son's place, and it was suspect
that Colonel House and Mr. Wils
had not seen "eye to eye" for soi
time. The Allied delegates ha
stated that Colonel House was an
?enable man, while for weeks ma
have bom significantly calling Pr
ident Wilson the "all highest,"
The Progresa While
Wilson Was Away
Tt will be remembered that Cc
riel H ou so. made great progr?
du ritie; Mr. Wilson's absence
America. The President fou
complete and permanent armist
terms drafted on his return z
agreements reached by several s
committees and commissions on v?
ous matters. It will also be remt
hered how just three weeks ag
that is, just two days after his
turn to Pari-- Mr. Wilson rept
ated practically everything the c
nel had accomplished, letting it
known that no American but him:
possessed plenary powers.
Ten days ago the President's pr
fcgent who are intimate with 1
and would not dare to make s
statements except on bis insti
tiens- informed a few correspo
ents whose papers especially supj
the President and Ins policies t
he- would (iepart from the. conf?re
txnless the Council of Four cam?
em agreement according to his vi
Within a ihort time.
When Mr. Wilson fell ill
Thursday Colonel House was s
moncd to continue the conferei
-1 with Orlando, Lloyd George anc
: Clemenceau, who, largely in defer
- ence to the President, were meetinf
- ! in his residence. On Friday anc
Saturday Colonel House consult?e
': Mr. Wilson little, if at all, Dr. Gray
son desiring that the President rest
! and consequently so-called progr?s:
- ' was made; but on Sunday the Pros
- i ident was well enough to discuss
" matters, and adopted the spectaculai
- ! and unusual method of summoninp
? i the full American delegation to hi.c
1 bedside.
? ] I say this was unusual because not
1 i only has the President rccentl,.
' ; avoided conferences with the other
1 American delegates, but he has al
! most ignored three of them, at times
not letting them know what his de?
cisions were.
As cabled last Saturday, Colonel
House has been almost the sole dele
j gate worthy of that title, and now
we see oven he does not share the
, President's confidence. Mr. Wilson's
sole intimate, apparently, is Dr.
Grayson.
So, for the first time in weeks.
' Colonel House, Secretary Lansing,
(?'(?lierai Bliss and Henry White
gathered simultaneously with Mr.
; Wilson for a serious conversation.
! This fact was made public, together
with tho intentionally significant
fact thai the George Washington
i was summoned to return immediate?
ly to Brest.
Separate Treaty
May Be Wilson "s
Ultimale Threat
_
President Said to Have
a Sketch of Pact With
Foe Ready for IIsc if
His Aims Are Thwarted
By Frank H. Simondi.
PARIS, April 7.?Mr. WilsofTs
decision to send for the George
Washington precipitates fhe final
crisis. It finds the French govern
ment regretting that the break seems
imminent, but calmly resolved to
make no more surrender of the es?
sential security of France, financial
or military, to Mr. Wilson, and de?
termined, if necessary, to endure the
evil consequences of Mr. Wilson's
withdrawal rather than yield fur?
ther.
Mr. Wilson's gesture finds Lloyd j
George suddenly assailed at home i
by a tremendous outburst in the ,
press and among public men to
whom he owes his past success and
his present strength, against his de?
sertion of France and subservience
of the British policy to the Ameri?
can President, and Lloyd George
unmistakably is executing one more
of those famous shifts familiar in
his political history. He has aban?
doned Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Wilson
knows it. He has prepared .he way
to line up with France again, and
the French are not unconscious of it.
It would be difficult to say on ex?
actly what lines the impending
break will come. No question before
the peace conference has been defi?
nitely settled.
It remains possible, as I said
weeks ago, that some peace still
may be patched up, but it is much
less likely than a week ago. As to
the league of nations, it has passed
out of the computation of those di?
recting affairs, while hope of a real
settlement has vanished.
Wilson Said to Have
Separate Treaty Ready
I am told by persons of authority
that Mr. Wilson has in his posses?
sion a sketch of a separate treaty
with Germany, a peace treaty1 to
be made by the United States and
Germany only, which is his final
threat, provided his leadership docs
not prevail further. '
I am told with equal authority
by French observers that Mr. Wil- |
son has completely lost his influ?
ence in France because of the uni?
versal conviction that underneath
the cover of his Utopian projects
and without his knowledge in?
ternational finance has been en?
gaged in a desperate ?.(fort so to
modify the terms with Germany as
to prepare the way for rehabilita?
tion of German business by Amer?
ican capital. This more than any?
thing else explains tho unmistak
fflR&?
mw?OB
W& W?W'WlLSO?
Marshal F och Praises
Valor of Australian}
T ONDON, April 8.--Marshal Foch
i has sent the following message to
I the soldiers and people of Australia?
"The Australian troop3 have upheld
j the causo of the Allies with magnifl
j cent dash. From start to finish they
i distinguished themselves by their
I qualities of enduranco and boldness.
! By their initiative, their lighting
spirit, their magnificent ardor, they
! proved themselves to be shock troops
of the first order.
"In the grave hours of 1918, with
their British, American and French
i comrades, they barred the enemy rush.
They stopped it, broke it, and at the
| appointed hour drove it far back.
"I am happy to express to Aus
: tralia the undying memory which we
shall cherish of her incomparable sol?
diers."
able collapse of the Wilson legend
in France.
Mr. Wilson finds himself at the
present moment absolutely alone in
Europe. Ho has no support among
the French public, except the oppo?
nents of the present government,
extreme Socialistic radicals who
are sympathetic with Bolshevism
and regard Mr. Wilson as a useful
instrument against their conserva?
tive enemies. Mr. Wilson's popu?
larity in England is similarly-de?
clining. He is held responsible
there, a3 in France, for delays which
have ensued. He is regarded there,
as in Fiance, as having at least an
intellectual tenderness for Ger?
many and as being intellectually
the champion of Germany in the
peace conference.
Blamed for Delay
In Enforcing Peace
It is felt, that he, through his
enormous influence, has contributed
more than anybody else to prevent
the victors in the recent war from
enforcing their terms upon Ger?
many, while Germany was helpless
and their own armies still ready to
move.
Hereafter in Europe. Mr. Wil?
son can only expect a steadily de?
clining influence, both among peo?
ple and jnublic men. He has been,
to use a familiar phrase, "torpe?
doed" by Lloyd George, and the ex?
asperation in American official
quarters, which was concentrated
against the French up to last week,
is now converging upon Lloyd
George. He. is held responsible for
tho difficult position in which Mr.
Wilson now finds himself, a position
which threatens to become humili?
ating in the near future.
If Mr. Wilson insists on going
home there will be great disap?
pointment in Europe, but I do not
think any further concession. After
he has gone and takgn America out
of tho situation, if the country shall
support him in this course, a new
alliance between Great Britain,
France and, Italy seems likely to
come promptly, and with it a reac?
tion which will lead to the imposi?
tion of far more severe terms on
Germany than have been sketched
here in recent weeks.
Dreams and Illusions
O? Settlement Vanish
All dreams and illusions of world \
settlement are vanished.
The European allies are rapidly
marching toward a new policy,
which will call for the extreme of
precaution against Germany, even
at the cost of a new campaign.
The realization that the direction
the peace conference was taking
was toward placing the burden of
debts of war and of destruction of
war upon the French and British
people, apd permitting the Ger?
mans to escape from the conse?
quence of their crimes, is begin?
ning to rally public sentiment and
restore the morale of the armies.
The possibility that Mr. Wilson
will go home himself and order the
American armies to retire from
Europe, that lie will at the same
time attempt to make a separate
peace with Germany, is recognized
here, has been threatened here pri?
vately for two weeks, and has at
last been discounted. No one can
measure the disappointment that
the retirement of America will
bring to millions of men and women
in Europe who welcomed the Pres?
ident of tho United States four
months ago as a messenger from an- \
other planet, bringing promiso of a \
new order in tho world.
It is not impossible that Bolshev- I
ism will be tho sole gainer by the
failure at Paris, but 1 have not |
found to-day a single well informed
person who believes that the tan?
gled threads can be unwound, that !
shattered nerves can be restored, ?
that this last final quarrel, which I
at bottom is a quarrel between '
Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson, !
can be settled. Momentary judg- i
ments are always unsound.
No situation can be without an
element of hope, but at least it has
to be said to-day?when Mr. Wilson
has ordered his ship?that it is im?
possible to find anywhere basis for
that optimism without ' which the
hopes of success here was impossible.
(Copyright, 1919, by thf> McCluro New?
papi r Syndicate)
Wilson9s Condition
Js Improved and He j
Meets With Premiers
PARIS, April 8 (By The Associated
Press).?President Wilson met with tho I
Premiers of (?rent Britain, Friinco and
.Italy to-duy fur tho iirst time slnco hoj
i became ill. The discussion of respon
' sibility for tho war and the Saar Val?
ley, which was unfinished to-day, will
! be continued to-morrow. It was not in
\ dicatcd whether the Presid? nt made any
| reference to the summoning of the
; Goorge Washington.
On account of the President's weak
; ened condition the afternoon session
! was comparatively short, Mr. Wilson
; lying down immediately after its ad?
journment, although it was stated a1
the "White House" that he was grad
! ually improving and expected to attend
i nil the meetings of the council here?
after.
The return of President Wilson to
the Council of Four and the progress
I made on various questions has removed
much of the tension which existed in
conference circles\and has led to re?
newed confidence in an early and sat
I isfactory conclusion.
The reparations problem is now con
! sidered definitely settled, and only
! minor details concerning the functions
of the commission to allot tho annual
instalments from Germany remain to
? be arranged. The Polish question, in
: eluding the status of Danzig, is also
: i nearing settlement on tho basis of in
| ternationalization or the city. Danzig
: as a free port avoids the necessity of
. recognizing the claims of either Polar..1
lor Germany, while the former will
have a corridor to tho Baltic from the
! limits of the internationalized town.
News of Breach Censored
From Paris English Press
New York Tribune
Special Cable Seri'ice
I Con? rieht, 191_, New Y?..-k Tri huno Inc.)
PARIS, April 8. -The blank spaces
in both English language newspapers
published in Paris indicate the unwil?
lingness of th?> censors-hip to allow a
word of yesterday's disquieting devel?
opments to reach the French press.
The Paris edil >n of the London
"Daily Mail" doi pot refer to the
question, carrying on ,, the statement
1 that President Wilson had ordered the
George Washington to H rest because
he wanted a quick peace. The French
papers still report prepress of tho
council of four toward agrooment "in
principle."
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Press Is Cowardly
On Peace Question,
Johnson Charges
Declares Fulsome Praise of
Parley Procedure Seems
To Be lis Only Object and
Assails Polir y in Russia
Netr York Tribune
Wajihinatun Hurcau
WASHINGTON, April 8.?The press
? of the United States was to-day char?
acterized as "sychophant and cowardly"
in its attitude toward the closet diplo?
macy which the President seemingly
has embraced at Paris by Senator
Hiram W. Johnson, of California. "The
day of journalism in America has
passed," declared Senator Johnson.
"Fulsome praise now seems to be the
end and object of the American press."
Senator Johnson ci ici not single out
the press as his exclusive target. (lis
censure might well be extended to the
' country at large, he said, in that the
j public seemed satisfied to accept with
: out question the meagre and confused
i reports which have come from the .
1 American peace delegation In Paris,
. notwithstanding the fact that Tresi- !
i dent Wilson and his associates o_ the j
I peace mission were negotiating a cov- ?
j enant transcendentally important in its '
! every bearing to tho future of this
country.
In this latter connection, Senator,
Johnson did not except himrelf or his
colleagues of the United States Senate
from censure. "There has been too
much silence here in Washington
among tho men qualified to speak," he
said. "Some of us seem to have for?
gotten that the President and his asso?
ciates at Pajia are 0?ly representatives
of the people of the United States and
as such are responsible and should be
responsivo to the wishes of our
people."
"The time has come to speak out
plainly," said Senator Johnson, in an?
nouncing an inter.'ion to address the
American people from time to time
hereafter on the danges of an interna?
tionalism which ignored Americanism.
Referring to the work of American
correspondents at Paris, Senator John?
son said ho deplored the lack of in?
itiative and force which characterized
the reports of tho peace conference
reaching the newspapers of the United
States. He declared there seemed to be
too much of a disposition among the
Paris correspondents to write what
was given to them. "As far as I have
seen," he continued, "there are only
two or three American correspondents
in Paris who should be excepted from
this criticism."
Discussing the" league of nations,
Senator Johnson said the best argu?
ment against the entrance, of tho
United States into the league as pro?
posed was the history of the American |
expeditionary forces in Russia.
agyar nev
Believed Move
To Scare Allies
Count Karolyi Said to Have
Engineered Uprising as
Bluff to Create Fear of
Spread of Bolshevism
Bela Kun Now Dictator
People Told That Visit of
General Smuts Sign of
Recognition by Allies
BUDAPEST, Monday, April 7 (By
Tho Associated Press).?It is consid?
ered certain here that the Communist
movement was engineered by Count
Michael Karolyi, tho former President,
to scare the Allies by the spectre of
Bolshevism and thereby draw atten?
tion to tho situation in Hungary. It
was a measure of despair the results
of which have scared even those who
planned the move, as it has given an
opportunity for Bela Kun, the Foreign
Minister, to attempt to become a die- j
tator of the Trotzky type. Tho Com- :
munists are opposed by the Socialists,
who are attempting to form a moderate
Socialist government.
All who dare, from waiters to manu?
facturers, inform the correspondent
that nono but a few madmen in Buda?
pest want nationalization of property
and other similar Communist schemes.
Bela Kun, in speeches yesterday and
to-day, attempted to make the people
believe that the visit here of General
Smuts, the special Allied Commissioner
to Hungary, was a recognition of tho
aims of the Communist government.
Boundaries Not Adjusted
It is reported in some quarters that
General Smuts came hero with au?
thority to adjunt new boundary lines
for Hungary under the armistice, but
that he left for Paris by way of Prague
without doing so.
British residents of the city will
leave for Paris by way of Vienna on
| Saturday. With them will go the
American wives of Hungarians, who
will be permitted to take with them
their money and effects. The govern?
ment seems to be doing everything
possible in favor of Americans and
other foreigners.
?Iules Alpari, a prominent Commu?
nist, and Jules Sevresi, people's com?
missioner in charge of socialization
of factories, argue, that Communism
is the only method by which Central
Europe can be saved -from total ruin.
Capitalism, they maintain, is unable
to cope with the threat of bankruptcy,
high wages and the unwillingness of
laborers to work. They point out
that under Communism workmen can?
not strike and are obliged to accept
a reasonable, wage.
Apponyi's House Seized
Count Albert Apponyi, the last Hun?
garian Premier under the old regime,
and a member of one of the oldest and
wealthiest families, is living, since,the
Communists gained control of the gov?
ernment, in a modest two-story house,
with hi? wife, two daughters and a
governess, and also with two families
which the government has billeted on
them. It is said the government intends
to placo other families in the house,
reducing the Apponyi family to the
use of two rooms.
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Opens Office Here
To Win U. S. Trade
Martens Says March Has
Promised to Withdraw
Troops From Russia and
Intervention Has Failed
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, unrecog?
nized Bolshevik agent to the United
States, opened a suite of offices in
this city yesterday.
Through Santera Nuorteva, his pub?
licity representative, and head of the
"diplomatic corps," Martens predicted
that official recognition would follow
the opening of trade relations between
Russia and America. This will be
possible, Nuorteva said, as soon as Al?
lied troops aro withdrawn from Rus?
sia, a step he declared had been prom?
ised by General Peyton March, chief
of staff.
Tho agency occupies the third floor
of tho World Tower Building, at 110
West Fortieth Street. It will be des?
ignated "Tho Russian Soviet Bureau
in the United States."
Nuorteva declared his chief, Mar?
tens, was engaged in establishing trade
relations between financiers and bank?
ers of the two countries, and had met
Brazil Bars Envoy of
Russian Bolsheriki
"DIO DE JANEIRO, April 8.?The
police to-day prevented the land?
ing form the Dutch steamer Gelria of
a Russian named Ledimin Chinnit,
who claims to be a representative of
the Russian soviet government. Later
the steamship proceeded on her way
to Buenos Ayres with the Russian on
board.
representatives of leading banking in?
stitutions of the United States with
thi# end in view.
Quasi-Recognition Expected
Questioned about Martens's status in
this country, Nuorteva said:
"My opinion is that, although full po?
litical recognition will not be granted
for some time, there will be seen in the
very near future a de facto recognition.
All we want at this time is to establish
commercial intercourse between Russia
and the United States. The interven?
tion policy is a failure, and admittedly ?
so. It is generally admitted that any }
new intervention in Russia would be ?
still greater folly."
Martens is vice-president of the engi?
neering ?rra of Weinberg & Posner,
Inc. During the war, as agent of the
Demidoff Steel Work?, of Russia, he
placed contracts to the amount of more '
than $3.000,000. He came to this coun?
try in 1914, after a stay in England. He
had gone to England after his release
from Russian prisons, where he had
served three years in the r?gime of the
last Oar because of his revolutionary
activities.
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country. He stated that amoim
would bo deposited in gold in reimbii
hanking institutions in i'urope as sooi
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