Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-01
France and England Would
Not Reckon With U. S.
In Picking Bones
.PERSHING AND F0CH CLASH
Refused to Permit Americans
to Be Brigaded With
the French.

. llSf IfNl IH'b IlOlil I|hI 'INt IN WHICH
he tells story OF the international
complications abroad that would not
BE- permitted TO come by cable and 70
tell some Of the difficulties that con
front The coming peace conference.
MIR Kent writes in part:
Fair words flow in the open. but
when one goes inside quite an amaz-
ing situation IL revealed, and II does
not argue lack OF sanity or balance
10 acknowledge II. IL is this situation
that led to an s. o. S. call for the
president from Americans in Paris
weeks ago. | know Of two strangely
wOrdcd cables sent to him from there
urging the vital necessity OF his pres
cncc ard laying before him certain
facts.
Tho truth is. and everybody in
Paris knows II, that in governmental
land political circles they do not love
as at al, over there, neither the Eng
sh nor the French. Between indi-
IvlluaIs Of different nations and races
Iwarm and sincere Friendships are
IpOssibie, and there are plenty OF
IEngHshmcn and Americans and
lFrcpchmen and Americans betwee n
IwhOm there are the strongest person.
Ia,Ity. But there Is ething about
Traces and nations as a whole that
Imakes the kind Of friendship that eX-
lists between individuals impossible
Paris these days most beautifully II.
uStrtes this.
"NOw that the war Ia over Amerl-
lean observers Of experience and with
facilities for observation are strongly
= disposed to think they discern dis
lpcsitiOn upon the part Of the other
Ipowers to set the stage against us
At the peace conference some of our
kiews and aims are going to clash and
Iclash sharply with some OF theirs.
Our view of what we did over there
is going to be a little different from
Theirs. Their inclination 10 pick the
bones OF Germany does not fit eX-
Iactly-in with our feelings, and there
will be 4 Divergence very marked
diyergen"e-upon the Interpretation
os those famous phrases the freedom
OF the seas, and sea power
Some disposition to resent any
Ithing like American domination or
the speaking OF America in a strong
voice at the peace table is already
lmaniiesting itself in an undercurrent
OF criticism OF our army staff and
criticism OF our army staff and a ten
4 'NllAttNN ~ lllllillIilGb SOIlthIl Ildl OuI
'>effortS in the war.
| This Is true OF the politicians. II
is not true OF the people. So far as
the latter are concerned, they will he
wholly satisfied, both in England and
| France, II the peace conference gives
them complete insurance against war
1 makes war of any kind at any time
between any peoples utterly impossi
BILE. This Is what they want and this
is all they want, and their feeling to-
ward us is entirely sincere and friend
~. Not so the French and English
politicians, who smart under the OBJ
v!ous fact that, since America sat
into this war game. America has
held all the big cards. Wilson has
done all the dealing and they have
been following his lead. Now the
| great danger has passed, the Euro
pean statesmen chafe under this
situation and some of those who
have been big figures under this
war see themselves sinking into po-
l,tical obscurity unless as an out
come Of the peace conference they
can say we got this for France or
we got this for England or we got
this for Italy
The strength of our position is
that neither Wilson nor House, nor
Bliss nor Pershing, nor any other
American desires to say we got this
Tor America America wants moth
ing for herself. That, couples with
the fact that England owes us
S5,O0o,QO0,000 and France owes US
nearly 100000, 900, and that we
sui hold the purse strings for both
nations, makes 1t likely that we will
continue to deal the cards, notwith-
standing the resentment in certain
quarters,
Some days ago. in commenting
upon the report that President VII
son was corning over to attend the
peace conferences, a. ]. Balfour
SAID TO friend: 1T is going to be
a rough and tumble affair, this
peace conference That remark re-
Fleets the real convictions under
meath the surface. In what follows
! Am going to talk of inner Ameri-
oAn circles in Paris as reflected not
only by the ablest American CORE
Sp'ndents, but by some of the very
ulRnest and most important diplo-
.auc' military and naval Americans
mere II will be a somewhat dis
\ connected story, but the facts have
I oeeh checked up from so many
sources mat they can be relied up
On Every American there knows
,nen'-and President Wilson knows
them.
In the first place. General Per-
sshhIhg is anything but popular over
mere with the French and British
high commands. The distaste for
nm dates back to the early spring
vi I9lf, when after having first
SkVeed TO permit the American
i,G9rces to be brigaded with the
french and British in platOOns. he
got cold feet on that proposition
ana In a memorable conference with
rpgh and Haig stood up and in effect
Hlu mat the American army was at
une'r disposaI to do what they
wanted, but 1t would have to be
rSs7d as an army, and there would
"e no more splitting 1t up.
Inc French were furious--not
pu.y furious at what Pershing said.
Uut at the way he said It, which was
m' the most outspoken American lam
sage imaginable, and not it is said
n"fey flee from profanity Had
"H ne"n Frenchman, his friends
,,n4g, ne would probably have had to
,'Eht a duel with Foch But he
@ 'au ms way and subsequent events
s sp'uVed him right.
MI the world knows now that II
Was M1S TWO regiments OF American ma
rra,nes which stopped the Hun at
ru"'ean Thierry, when he was on
,e o'e road 10 Paris--and the road
""a VIDE open too, with the French
,oi""en and on the run and the Brit