The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-23
That United States Does Not Wish
to Claim Entire Credit for Work
of Relief, Is Made Clear to
Entente.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS is
STILL A LIVE SUBJECT
Wilson s Views, as Outlined at the
Sorbonne, Attract Great Atten.
tion, Especially Reference to
Time for Discussion.


IatiH. Dee 90. President Wilson's
conferences touay and tomorrow viii
virtually complete the preliminaries
ne IL expected to dispose Of before go-
.ng 10 England They probably viii
Jay the principal part OF the ground
work for the actual peace conference.
ny Wilson considers the most prcss-
.ng OF all problems before the entente
nations Ina a fair way toward being
solved This IS the question of sup
plying food to the starving peoples of
liboi ateu countries, IL now seems
probable that the work will bc han
dled principally by the United States,
through Herbert q, Hoover. II has
been made plain to the entcnIc ma
tons that the United states has M
wish to claim entire credit Tor the
work of relief in the minds OF the peO-
pie who are 90 be led and a satisfac-
tory understanding appears TO be In
sight. Mr.. Hooker will confer with
the president again today.
Participation by the United States
in various councils that have been
handling food questions matters of
shipping and the like are being grad
ually wound up MS American officials
are trending toward the opinion that
these are proper subjects for the con
sidgraiiOn OF league of nations or al
ieast of preliminary organizations
which may precedc Il.
Some Of those who have hecn giving
the suDJcCt Clust study hud have been
following the conferences with entente
representatives say they would not be
surprised u the real foundation of .
league Of nations were 60 be laid in
cooperative arrangements hctWccn
the United States and the allies FOR
handling these fundamental questions.
MIR. wilson's address At the Snr-
honne on saturday. in which he again
defined his conception of "A league
of nations attracted closest attention
from al public men here This h es-
pccialiy true OF his statement that the
war could never have occurred n the
central powers had discussed It for a
fortnight and certainly not Il they had
been forced tp talk matters over for
more than year.
The pre- idcnt's address has recalled
that the United States. while vii
lhm Jennings Bryan was secretary ~
state. negotiated dozen arbitration
treaties one Of them with Great
Britain. These treaties bound their
signntorics 10 discuss their contru.
Scrsics for ~ lcast year before pros
Cccdinr 10 a declaration nf war An
attempt was made To negotiltc such
"A treaty with Germany but the Berlin
There ~ no official authority FOR the
statement that Mr.. Wilson is thinking
OF the Bryan plan Is one Of the ele-
meuts IN the proposed machinery for
preserving world peace. but this ref
crcnce tu the plan Ia his Sorbonnc
speech has set public men 60 talk
ing. No announcement has been made
as 20 how FAR the Conferences between
MIR. Wilson. Premier Clemcncedu.
Premier Orlando aud Foreign Minis-
ter Sonnino have gone but French
public men have declared that their
prcmicr's talks with the president
were entirely satisfactory, II Is also
believed that Mr Wilson has made
substantial progress in his conferences
with Italian statesmen
London Dee 20 The decorations
OF tho city OF London for President
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