The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-23
PERFECT ACCORD BETWEEN
 LANSING AND PRESIDENT
Press Comment in Both England and Germany Is Read With Deepest In. terest by Members CT the Cabinet Minority Leader Mann Endorses Ac. ton of President Wilson.

Washilatou, Dec 22-Wlile moth.
 Ing official came from Europe tolay to show when the beiieerents will ce- ply to President Wilson's note urging
 discussion of peace, or what the na- ture Of the responses might be, Len. don news dispatcles indicating that an early reply was unlikely beeadse of the necessity of consultation be- tween the allies, agreed with the view prevailing here
 Apparently ihe administration, hay ing dispatched the note and in the interest q caution having taken steps to see that no misconstrucuon abroad Was placed on the presidents pur poses, now is carefully watching the expressions of opiaion particularly in the British press As the attitude # the Teutonic allies had been c}ea-Iy foreshad wed in advance and thG pres ident in the note specifically disclaim- ed any association with the attitude. the interest Of American officials cen tered on Me reception Of the note in the entente countries and among the Eurolean neatrals.
 IL was recalled as the London dio patches, m st of the,I hostile, arrived
 that some expressions greeted the original proposals Of the central al- lies, but that the views were moda-1t- ed in the British press and among the entente diplomats here after ref ec- tion and discussion.
 To preclude any possibility of ml3- construction cf the presidents pur- poses from the furry of yestesd4y
 caused by Secretary Lansing's tWo| statements, both statements were ca bled today Co American diplomats .abroad in neutral as well as bellger- ent countries SD they might be pre-.
 pared to correctly state the presi. dents attitude 10 the yernmeuts 10 which they are accredited They are intended Co offer official evidence. if it be needed, that thc presidents note is cXa5tiy what it Furports to be on its lacp
 The suggestion from London that the maIncr of replying to the pres. ideuts note will differ from the form Of replies 10 proposals of the German allies corrcsponded with official cx- pectauons lt is thought here that the entente allies might not make cx tended answe. to the proposals If the central powers, but would deal w.th the whole peace subject in their re- sI -nse to the United States.
 The German view here is that what ever the reply of the entente allies the relations between Germany and the United States will nave been i'm measurabIy improved probably to the point of assuring csrefu steps by the Berlin government to avoid any such conditions as led up to a crisis which threatened a break in diplomatic re llations That view is that the advan- tage Of ccmity with the greatest of ineutrals will be so forclbly impressed upon fbe people of the central en- pires tat 1t will moi again be eada1. gored
 Entente diplomats while they ap. rarenty had decideu to accert the presidents attitude in good faith, had not wholly disposed of their fear that
 it might cedouud to the advantage 3I their enemies.
 1t was reiterated today in all off.
 ct3l quarters that there was perfect understanding between Secretary Lan
 sing and the president and whatever might have appeared as discord ia
 expectation Of the note to the be' ligerents had been disposed of by the issue of the secretary's second state
 ment and the steps to inform Che for, gien governments, cf the facts.
 The notes bel'.gerenls. sec lTetary aA expanatory sta Q. ierman submarine
 the chief. topic of