The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-23
PLAN OF ACTION
TO CONTROL. WAR
United States Will Insist Upoa
ii at Conference
THE BRITISH PREMIERSHIP
Conditions In England And France
May Prevent The Surrender OF
Their Individual Powers To The
End Of Defeating Germany.

washington, November 15.-Tha
United States will stand stiff1y for
unity of action of the Allies through
plan to be evolved at the coming
Paris conference.
The attitude reflected by admin.
lstration oficials, when compared
with the attitude struck in Paris and
London, leads to the belief that the
United States may appear as the
urgent champion of far more COM
prehensiye plan for unity than yet
has been suggested.
It is an open secret here that adj
ministration officials were surprised
at the plan aimed at by the con.
ference as revealed by Premier Lloyd
George in the House Of Commons.
They are surprised that it did not
include more definite and more
wieldly scheme for the control Of the
war in all its phases. 1t had been
hoped here, and it is still hoped, that
such a plan will be the ultimate out
come of the Paris meeting.
1t is recognized here that domestic
politics in England as well as in
France may prevent the administra.
lions of those countries. from stand
ing at the present time for the sur
render of their individual powers to
the common end of defeating Ger
many. The United States will be
handicapped by no such considera-
ton at home, it is pointed out here.
The attitude of our military and
naval leaders here since we entered
the war has been to defer to the
superior experience of the British
and French authorities. 1t will be
entirely in line with that policy to
insist at the coming conference that
the best war brains of all the coun-
tries at war against Germany now
be united in single organism domi.
mating all allied efforts.
This attitude was reflected forcibly
at the State Department when ques-
lions as to Colonel Houses powers. in
the conference were replied to with
reiteration of Secretary Lansing's
statement that the conference is q
"war conference"
1t was intimated that Colonel House
and the other American representa-
tives will be expected to urge with
all their power every possible step
that will lead to the more successful
l. ar1fic,a 1f %ho cd,
1t is considered here that the most
vital step in this direction is the sub
mission of individual ambitions of all
the Allies to the common good. The
United States, it is pointed out, al
ready has set the example in this
respect in the way the economic con-
duct of the war has been handled
here. The embargo against supplies
to the neutrals has cost and is daily
costing the United States millions of
dollars in the loss of trade and in the
falling of the rates of exchange in
favor of the neutral countries
It is frankly admitted that there is
at present no great Individual leader
either in the political or the military
field to whom the hope of the Entente
can be entrusted. Lacking such a
figure, it is again predicted here that
the United States will demand the
creation of an all-powerful interallied
board
While it is recognized that neither
England nor France will go into con-
terence ready to propose such plan,
1t is confidently believed that once
the delegates are seated about the
table, there will come from the United
States confidential information of a
nature so startling and so convincing
that none of the Allies will be able
to stand out against the demand for
action.