The sun., 1917-11-27
HOUSE LOOKED
TO ASLEADER
IN WAR COUNCIL
Regarded as Best Able to
Visualize Great Task
of the Allies.
SINGLE HEAD FOR ARMY
Paris Paper Urges French Con-
troll, With Britain in Com
mand Of the Navies.
SINGLE HEAD FOR ARMY
Special Cable Despdsch TO TEE srx.

PARIS. Nov. 26.-The Importance Of
direct participation. for the first time.
Of the United States in the deliberations
Of the Entente Powers is recognized fully
BY their representatives. who are here
for sessions OF the interallied conference
1t ia their expectation that Col. House
and his associates will bring to the SUI
premc war council that practical men,
tality and loyalty TO duty that to
Europeans Is characteristic Of the
national spirit OF the Cn.ted States.
The Americans are expected to ac-
complain. through their clear compre-
hension Of duty. Of the necessity for
solidarity Of action and the need for
directing all energies to a single pur-
pose. that coordination OF effort which
alone can bring victory. The influence
which President Wilson'S representa-
tives will exercise hardly can be over
estimated.
Col. House Is regarded as expressing
sentiments OF the elements in tho En-
tente that are outside the natural
national rivairies' which exist among the
European allies. He is expected to
bring an entire freedom Of mind and
impartiality Of judgment In Offering
solutions to questions that will require
the most delicate handling. He will be
able to do this by reason OF the recogni-
tion, on the part Of the other allies. Of
the great authority his mission confers
upon him.
New Perspective Needed.
Gaulois, commenting upon this phase
Of the conference deliberations. says:
Through the lack OF single head we
need a counsellor who possesses a suf-
ficient guarantee OF inpartial!ty and
sincerity to force tho weight Of his rec
concentrations upon the conference. His
investigations will acquaint him with ex-
act conditions upon which to form his
judgment. All Europe is too much alb
sorbed in the tragic happenings of the
moment to look into the future. There
must be a new perspective. Col. House
Is the man to visualize It, lie comes
with opAfi mind and without prejudlces.
but with a wonderful equipment in
knowledge OF conditions. He has studied
the war from a sufficient distance to get
an accurate general survey of the COM
pete war drama. He therefore is best
NIteu ledu tIe way tOWdIu
down the barriers that now prevent the
Allies from complete and entire CO.
ordination
The emphasis laid by Col House upon
the solution OF the economic difficulties
Of the Allies, which Is to be the work
largely Of Oscar T. Crosby. the Amer
lean representative. has brought the
suggestion for IN interallied economic
general staff to take up at once the
problem OF meeting both present and
future conditions. 1t Is pointed out that
the frs, necessity after peace is con-
cluded will be to insure the feeding OF
the Allies.
SiRGle Army Head Urged.
That steps must be taken now to de-
fend the Allies from return of German
economic Imperialism is another matter
deemed OF vital import.
The question OF r single head for the
allied armies. which 1t Is presumed will
come before the interallicd conference in
some shape, continues to be prime
subject OF discussion in the Paris news
papers. A military commentator in the
Matin points out that the failure of all
the Allies to reap an advantage from
the British victory at Cambria Is In
striking contrast to the successes which
have followed the intimate coordination
of the German and Austrian offensive in
italy.
The Echo de Paris. which is publish
ing a series Of articles on this subject,
says:
1.-THE losses Of France surpass those
Of all the other Allies. Her industrial
effort exceeds any other individual pro-
duction. She has shown her military
superiority In the reorganized Serbian
and Rumanian armies. What allied
Government will not admit that II is the
military soul of the coalition? Is this
asking too much Of our allies? Is mill
tary direction everything? Should the
direction of the navies not be given ia
single British command? Is not
America best fitted to direct the supply
and appOrtionment OF all the sinews of
war? The part France IL fitted to play
above all others is military direction"