The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-23

PARIS, Dec. 2S.-Representatives OF
several allied powers ana the United
states Will hold conference In Paris
carly in the New Year TO discuss the
tuture OF International aerial naviga-
tion, the Echo de Paris announces.
Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, France
and the United States viii be repre-
sented at the conference, which will
study the questions OF how to prevent
airplanes of different nationalities from
crossing customs barriers and how to
prevent postal or commercial airplanes
from being Transformed into bombing
machines within few minutes,
The result of the oeHoerations Of the
conference, the paper adds, will have
TO be accepted by Germany and her
former allies in the peace treaty.
President Wilson'S conferences today
and tomorrow will virtually complete
the preliminaFies he Is expected to dis
pose OF before going 70 England They
probably will lay the principal part Of
the ground work for the actual peace
conference.
Mr.. Wilson considers the most press
ing OF all problems before the entente
hatlons IN q fair, way toward being
solved. This is the question of sup
plying food to the starving peoples Of
liberated countries. 1t now seems
probable the work viii be handled prin-
clpally by the United states, through
oIl - IlOoNeEI AlueElcan IOou au-
nlinistrator.
Participation by the United States in
various councils which have been hand
ing food questions. matters of ship
ping anu the like is being gradually
wound up, as American. officials are
are proper subjects for the considera-
ton Of a league Of nations or at least
or preliminary organizations which
may precede ii.
Some of those who have been giving
the spbje,t close study say they would
not be surprised If the real foundation
of a league OF nations were to be laid
IN comparative arrangements between
tho United States and the allies for
handling these fundamental questions.
Mr.. Wilson'S address at Sorbonne
Saturday, IN which he again defined
his conception Of league of nations
attracted closest attention from all
public men here. This is especially true
OF his statement that the war could
never have occurred If the central pow
efs had discussed it for a fortnight, and
certainly not If they had been forced
TO talK matters over for more than a
year.
The presidents address has recalled
that the United States. while William
Jennings Bryan was secretary of state,
negotiated a dozen arbitration treaties
one OF them with Great Britain These
Cues their controversies for at least a
year before proceeding to 4 declaration
OF war. An attempt was made TO ne
gotiate such a treaty with Germany,
but the Berlin government refused to
entertain it. 1t Is also recalled the
same idea was once expressed In a
plan for preserving peace put forward
by a group headed by Viscount James
Bryce. former British ambassador to
the. United States.
There Is no official authority for the
statement that Mr.. Wilson is thinking
OF the Bryan plan as one of the ele-
nents In the proposed machinery for
preserving world peace, but this ref
erence to the plan In his Sorbonne
speech has set public men to talking.
No announcement has been made
as to how far the conferences between
Mr. Wilson, Premier Clemenceau, Pre-
mier Orlando and Foreign Minister Son
nino have gone, but French public men
have declared their premiers talks with
the president were entirely satisfactory
1t is also believed that Mr.. Wilson has
made substantial progress in his con-
ferences with Italian statesmen.
President Wilson Sunday visited the
Red Cross hospital at Neuilly, where
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