The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-12-24
SEEM NOTEACER
TO GRIP ISSUES.
Disappointment in N any
Quarters Over Delay Of
Peace Farley.
ADVANTAGES, HOW EVE R
Wilson's Visit to Revive Eng
lands Idealism-0ther
Problems Clearer.
,Iondon Times Phil. Ledger Cop. Gable,

Paris, Dec. 24.-There is unmistak-
BILE disappointment In many quar-
RS over the apparent lack OF eager
ess OH the part OF the allied gov
Fnments to get to. grips at once with
he chief problems Of peace.
Nearly six weeks have elapsed
nee the armistice was signed witt
ernany. At least a fortnight viii
by before the allied conference
hn have even its opening sitting.
In the meantime. the desire OF all
buntries to return to a state OF peace
hs become stronger and statesmen
hve become fatigued by ceremonial
lties and an atmosphere not en-
rely conducive to the lofty consid-
ation of earnest problems has been
eatcd.
And yet there are some counter.
iling advantages. AS far as Great
ritain is concerned, President Will
ms visit may tend to revive the
rposeful idealism that has charac-
rized British public feeling during
e war.
In France. the Christmas respite
I'M allow leisure from steady work
a should enable Premier Clemen-
IN to take n much needed rest.
Position Of Spain. j..
Several matters of moment that
lrht have been overlooked in a hur-
d discussion between too many
tesmen may receive calmer atten-
n. One of the matters is the po-
lon of Spain. The visit of Count
Imonones to Paris served to en-
size the urgency of "A sympathetic
mination Of her wishes and so 10
q her from the peril of isolation
which a mistaken policy during
war might have exposed her.
liberal Spain should find worthy
Ice in the league of nations. place
can more readily obtain now that
downfall of the reactionary forces
the central empires has left her
4, reactionary elements without Il
bp.
A Relation Of Italy and Vatican.
S;,;ch good also was done by the
OF the king of Italy. one OF the
hes which will affect. perhaps per-
O the atmosphere of the confer
q win be the future position OF
Vatican and it's relations to the
IN governments. Considerable in
pst was aroused, yeSt e3day " lRa 2 rts
ateIegrnm ffopf fRorne Btati1g
IA the Giornale, p1talla was re-
hing 10 TIM idea Of concord. be-
en italy uilh the holy See and in
tnr upon the community of their
rests in Armenia and Lebanon.
he Giornale DItalia Is repre-
nted as suggesting that the pope
tht find Palestine compensation
"a any territorial remuneration II"
Mi make to Rome. To this sug-
zion the Vatican organ, Osserva-
~ Romano. is alleged to have re-
I'D in an article entitled n New
SO of the Relation OF Italy anu
~ Holy Sec:
|#Thore is nothing new IN the idct
|Ha formal understanding between
~ Vatican and the consulta, II no,
EkMoen the Vatican and the duirH.
ktfercated'v has been discussed ana
allowed to lapse what ~
R Ia that it should be Ventilated
tn journal and written by n per-
~ adherent of the foreign MN
(H Holy See Under Suspicion.
|3hough by religion a Protestant
kpn Sonniro always has been un-
stood TO hold that 1.-THE Roman
decrease in the appearance OF
tility between Italy and the Vat.
n might damage Italian national
hrests by exposing predominant
&1ian hierarchy in the Roman Cath
III church. il not. indeed, the holy
~ itself. TO the suspicion of being
3ulv Italian in sentiment. Baron
*&nino's history has been believed
fsfegard the Roman Catholic church
Efhe greatest Italian institution.
to fear lest any display of OFF,
intimacy between the holy see
W the italian government might en-
fage French. American. German
British Roman Catholics to work
due and effective representa-
in the college of cardinals and
fsiastical hierarchy. If not even
TIN in the chair of st. Peter itself.
'Xhe publication of this suggestion
3n concordat in the journal Baron
8hino controls. therefore. is felt
<6bly significant at a time when
4Iholics in all the allied countries
&Ndceply mortified that during the |
IA the prestige of the church should |
been endangered by the failure |
Pope Benedict XIV to wean the |
IAN hierarchy as a whole from its
1oms tenderness for the forces OF
righteousness.
tisfaction is felt here at the an
hcement of the new Serbo-Jugo-
cabinet as constituted.
Hcholas Pashich will be president
Ikhe Jugo- Slav delegates at the
fe conference. 1t is understood
yrrumbich only consented to ac-
the portfolio of foreign affairs
Nhe urgent request Of the southern
w leaders in Dalmatia and Agram
"A Pashich himself. In moderate
ian circles the selection Of Trum-
x,a1oop,a1