Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-29
DELAY IN PEACE
PERIL TO EUROPE,
LONDON DECLARES
Nations Anxious to Agree on the
Main Points and Free
Armies Quickly.
CONSIDER KAIRER'S CASE

I.ondon. Nov. 90 The Daily Express
lobby correspondent SAYS that the Supreme c
reace Council al Versailles will not begin
until January. but the Interallied Con
ference viii open in London next week
and will be resumed in Paris in the second
week in December
Premier Clemcnceau of France and
other Ministers If the allied powers will
be in conference in London throughout
next week, debating for one thing the
course To be followed with regard to the
Kaiser LLOYD George will go to Paris
soon after NJ Clemenccau' return. and
certainly will be there to JOIN with the
other allied Prime Ministers in receiving
President Wilson.
The preliminary conference will con-
tinue for some weeks Its function viii
be to prepare the ground for the Peace
Conference, selecting the personnel of
commissions which will be set up toinqilire
into special aspects of peace making
These commissions will greatly simplify
the work Of the supreme conference, which
Is likely to move swiftly toward the
signing of peace.
IL has been suggested the Peace Con
ference might be at work for fully three
months before terms are ready for sig
nature This was strongly discounten-
ancod in British Ministerial circles yes
terday Eurore, it WAS urged could
not stand three months of suspense for
until peace is signed schemes of demobih-
zation and reconstruction must neces-
sariiy be held up.
What will happen is that the Peace
Conference viii hurry forward to a settle
ment OF the main outlines of q peace
treaty This Will he signed rs soon as
possible. and arrangements viii be made
for some sort of international police TO
enforce IL The international cornmis-
sions will continue TO work out details
for considerable time to come. Aside
from tho Supreme Peace Conference
there VIII always be IN session larger
bodies representing all Allies and probably
the governments OF the Central Powers
IS well
All the dominion statesmen viii be ad-
Initt<d TO what will virtually he a British
Imperial War Cabinet sitting in Paris
The fact that the British staff Will be be
tween 400 and 500 strong and that practi-
cally every department Of the State will
be represented indicates the variety and
complexitv of tho tasks To be 'undert AIKEN
The Daily Telegraph in the course Of
an editorial on today's celebration Of
Thanksgiving Day says:
The British and American peoples
have been fellow-students during these
past anxious months IN the same hard
school. and il that companlonship has
cXemplIfied one moral more than another
ii IS that real freedom Of the seas rs II
has been practiced by the two nations.
is an effective check on tyranny on land
But for the blockade, in spite Of the
splendid contributions oi troops by the
United States and BY ourselves the war
might have dragged on for years. # Ger
many had not, indeed, been able at no
very distant date TO protit hy the economic
exhaustion of the whole world
1T is appropriate that on the eve OF
Thanksgiving that Winston Churchill.
son Of an Amen, an moth r and n British
statesman, should have made u specific
declaration on the determination OF the
British people to preserve their sea rights.
TO which, ii its history be traced back IL
Its source, the Republic of the United
tates owes Its existence Without the
feet there would have been no plantation
and without the feet there could have
been no American Amy to cooperate
with fine resource and courage in over
throwing Prussianism.
We believe the good sense of the
American people will les.i them TO
recognition OF the debt which Is due 10
the two naves, and that they will svrn-
pathize with the attitude Of an island
people in confronting the naval questions
which may be discussed at the Peace
Conference
Everywhere throughout the Kings
Dominion Mr.. Churchill's firm state
ments will be supported, that no argu-
ments however spacious; no appeals, how
ever seductive, must lead us to abandon
our nsval supremacy, which Is the only
srne defence of these islands and of our
distant dominions, In joining in cele-
brating Thanksgiving Day wc may per
haps entertain the. hope that the great
American people, remembering the pas
sage Of their troops in safety across the
Atlantic in the face Of the enemy's sub
marines, and the dramatic close Of the
war rs direct result OF the blockade in
which American naval forces also Joined,
viii be as firmly resolved as we are re-
solved not TO barter away those ancient
rights which once more proved the de-
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