Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-12-23
WILSON'S PEACE NOTE HOLDS
 ATTENTION OF ALL EUROPE
EUROPEAN PRESS COMMENT UPON
 WILSON'S NOTE

ParlS, Dec. 22. "A dramatic SlfOkG : is the way 'Intransigent heads Pres- dent Wilson's note to tac belligercnts. Commenting on the note, the paper says:
 Everybody will understand the i'm pOrtancc of Americas act. Mr.. Will sons position is clear The United States has had to suffer from the war. Germany is tOrpcdoing it's boats, and the United States is sending us ma terials and already has given us fi- nancial aid. It is natural that the president should desire to know the purposes of the belligerents. Ger tainly, this act will lisarrange the sly maneuvers Germany is seeking to acCpmplish at this time. As to us. we know why we are fighting. We are fighting because we have been attacked, and because we do not want to be attacked again"
 "One the eve of the Christmas holidays says La Lib2rtc, "PlVsldent Wilson would greet the dove of peace with greater pleasure, since he fears to see his country drawn into the melee. The submarine warfare which Germany threatens to wage to the ut
  fective maW draw the United States into the world conflict. We should tlartainlv be desolate if it's dignity arS interests obliged the Washington government to break with perjured and barbarous Germany"
 Paris, Dec. 22,-Le Temps, which carries great political weight, after alluding to what it terms the courto- ous and precise form of President Wilson's note, says:
 "It certainly seems that (he Washington. government in it's desire for peace, has neglected to look the problem in the face and weigh the real evidence. * " Wilson's funda- mental error dates far back to his re- fusal to pass upon the initial reason for the war. Judge what the two groups say and think about peace. Can one forget that one of them deliber- ately broke peace, while the other did everything to keen it? The Limited States wish for peade was ours and that of our allies 30 month ago. The war was imposed on us by "a people eager for conquest, and now we want that victory which alone will create a durable peace"
 Amsterdam, Dec. 22.-The Hendels- blad says that president Wilson's note cannot be treated in scoffing man ncr because it is meant seriously ana is absolutely honest.
 The Tigd considers Wilson's atti- tude as definite and correct. The Vandendag says: "ln view ol all that has happened since Decem- Der 12, the date of the peace proposal of the central powers, Wilson could hardly have expected any other re- ception from the English press than | that which he received. We nope however, that he will be able to weather the storm and put his wishes into execution"
 The Telegraaf says: "One need not immediately think the worst of Will sons intention but the form is clum- sy. If this note had been drawn up by the German government itself it could hardly have shown greater lack Of the most elementary conception ol tact. For Wilson there is not the slightest difference between Germany, i which destroyed Belgium, and Eng land, which drew the sword to re- deem Belgium. It looks as if MT. Will son, by his incomprehensible clumsi- ness, has spoiled the cause of peace for good"
 London, Dec. 22.-In it's comment on Wilson's note, the Pall Mall Ga zette sharply criticizes the president. l ''To revise a term once familiar in American politics." it says, Che as- sumes the attitude of 'know-noth- ing He does not realize that he makes the blood Of every honorable man in Europe boil when he professes inability to distinguish between the objects and professions between the two sides. The president is as un- lucky as he is high-minded."
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