Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-01-11
WIL SONS SPEECH
PRAISED BY ALLIES
Both France and England Laud
Presidents Address.
FRENCH GIVE THEIR THANKS
Passage in Address Dealing With Al.
sace-Lorraine Pieases Paris
magma charta Of Peace" Says
London Paper.

Paris, Jan. TO- The Temps says OF
the passage in President Wilson's adj
dress dealing with Alsace-Lorraine:
ut is the first time the president OF
the United States has declared him-
self on the Alsace-Lorraine question.
We had no doubts as TO his sentiments,
but we are profoundly glad that he
has expressed them. We thank him
also for placing the problem on It's
true ground, in presenting the restitu-
ton of Alsace-Lorraine as a necessary
condition for a general peace and not
only as a special claim of the French
people"
La Liberte says "a new page has
been added to the many noble and gen.
erous pages from the presidents pen"
and adds that it will show that Ger
many is full of annexation folly and
will refuse TO subscribe to it, as even
the advanced social democrats refuse
PREPARATION for the inequity which the
Frankfort treaty consecrated.
La Liberte contrasts the generosity
of President Wilson's attitude to-
ward Russia with ''the perfdious
maneuvers Of the central powers at
Brest-Litovsk." and adds:
president Wilson was right in end
ing with a declaration Of Americas
determination to fight until these
objects are attained. as arms alone,
not speeches, will convince Germany
of the Justice of our cause"
cheered by British Labor.
London, Jan. TO- Representatives OF
British labor issued a manifesto giving
whole-hearted support TO the program
presented in President Wilson's speech.
The manifesto says that ''in essential
respects it Is so similar to that which
the British labor put forward that we
need not discuss any points of differ
ence in detail.r
The manifesto was adopted at 8
Joint meeting of the parliamentary
committee of the trades union con-
gress and the national executive com
mittee of the labor party. 1t declares
that the presidents speech has opened
peace negotiations and that the world
awaits proof of the sincere desire of
the central powers to carry them to a
conclusion.
Speech TO Become Classic.
The manifesto considers that Presi-
dent Wilson's declaration in favor Of
open diplomacy and in support Of revo-
lutionary Russia will make his speech
one of the classic utterances of allied
craftsmanship during the war. and In
the detailed program as set forth the
British labor party "can find no point
upon which allied democracy is likely
to disagree
magma charta of Peae~.
Mr. Wilson'S speech, like all Ia ut
terances since America entered the
war. takes the leading place In both
the news and editorial columns Of the
London press. One newspaper de-
scribes 1t as ''The Magma Charta Of
future peace"
Coming so closely on the heels Of
Premier Lloyd Georges address, the
words of the heads of the American
and British governments are COM
pared closely. While some differences
are found in the manner of discussing
the various questions, the evening
newspapers find no disagreement in
essential policy.
The Evening News describes the
speech as one of worldwide impor-
lance, in which the president laid down
Americas peace terms in clear. direct
and simple language.
Summing up, the newspaper says:
president Wilson is for free world
on lines indorsed by all the entente
allies. but it means the surrender by
Germany Of all her ambitions, and she
will need to be in very chastened
mood before she accepts"