The evening world., 1917-08-15
POPE'SPEACE PLAN
FINDS NO SUPPORT
IN BRITISH PRESS
Even he New II palilist
Lean.nCs Is Opposed 20
rs Terms.

fosDoS. AuG it -aoms - th.
morning spsusrs rsfrain from
oommsbiinr ~ the I'ops's poacs pfo-
russls while thoso ~h,ol discuss
thsyn ediionAl.y baso ths'r ronssis 20
Austria. anf either reject absolutely
az indicate the belief that The tstt
uhen received will show then 90 be-
unAccsptAbls The Daiiy News which
Although = nrm supporter - tho Al
lies aims has a decided pacnst lean-
ing. says that whatever reasons
which hitherto restrained the Pope
from coming forward 49, an ofnciai
champion % peace. the long delay
has materially impaired the adyan-
iASes the Vatican originally possessed
for disintsresied Intervention.
1T ~ not our business" the News
says. 'to pass judgment upon
policy which exhausted itself IN Inn
potent sighs over the iniquitles per-
petrated IN Belgium and imagined II
possible 20 eKtinEuish the world con-
flAETation by a succession Of umid
intrigues
THE Pope'a proposals must he eN-
amined on their merits as strictly ns
~ made by Chancellor Michaelis.
President Wilson OF Lloyd George"
The Daily Mail does not comment
edltoriRlly. but In an Introduction In
It's news columns snys tho popo's pro-
pOsal are impossible and that tho
scheLo o Is really Austro- German.
Tho Chronicle refers 10 the tradl-
tlonRl intimacy of Austria and tho
Vatican and tho Austrian Courts in
tense desire for peace, and adds:
THE fact that the proposal comes
Immediately after expulsion OF Rus
SLAMS from Galicia and Bukowina
will not escape anybody who In In the
habit OF putting two and two to-
gether. We may assume that the
Pope acted at Austrias prompting
In any case the Allies will have to
refuse. No other course is open to
them"
The Times, while suspendlng hnal
judgment until the text Is available,
says the proposals as described In tho
telegraph summaries are utterly in
admissible by the Allies. 1t expresses
astonishment at the Vatican's alleged
hope that the document will be favor
ably received and lead TO the not dis
tant end OF the war. ITO cherish any
hope OF this" says the paper, ''be-
trays a complete ignorance OF opinion
} OF all the Entente countries and the
United States. They have all stated
plainly, emphatically and repeatedly,
the only terms whereon they are pre-
pared to consider peace. Those terms
are quite incompatible with the tele-
graphed version OF the Vatlcan's pro-
a posals and there is not the sllghtest
prospect that the Allies will renounce
: or abate them. The whole tenor OF
{ the document bears the mark OF Ger
! man inspection"
The Post, expressing similar Views,
I says: ITO listen to compromise be-
e fore guarantee is secured against a
2 repetition Of the ordeal through which
9 civilization Is passing is TO betray all
q sacrince and suffering that have been
endured. II the Vatican really Ia
r optimistic about the reception OF its
I proposals. the Vatican shows that IL
Is entirely out OF touch with the
sentiment OF the Allies"
o ROME. Aug. b.--The Italian public
regards with disfavor the initiative
y taken by the Pope In putting forth
9 peace proposals.
2 Those commenting on the peace mes
= sage to-day regarded II as especially
= untimely, coming as II does at the
: moment OF Americas active partici-
y patton In the war and the maximum
: efforts OF the Allies. including italian
plans for an intensive Italian cam
) paign.