The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-12-23
ENGLAND WILL
SUBMIT PEACE
CONDITIONS
TO WILSON
Day Following Presidents Ar
rival in London to be Devot-
ed to Conference With Brit
ish Cabinet.
|PREL|MINARIES CLOSING
tBy Associated Press,


LONDON, Dec. 23.-It is expected
that the entire day Friday, tho day fol
lowing President Wilson's arrival In
England for his visit. will be devoted
to discussion by the president with
the British war cabinet of the terms
to be proposed by Great Britain at
the inter-allied conference preceding
the peace congress.
The cabinet. 1t is said, will be able
to finish by tomorrow night the task of
framing the terms and the final draft
should be ready by Christmas day.
Pressing Problems Solved.
President Wilson's conferences to-
day and tomorrow will virtually COM
plete the preliminaries he IL expected
to dispose OF before going to England.
They probably will lay the principal
part Of the groundwork for the actual
peace conference.
Mr. Wilson considers the most
pressing of all problems before the
entente nations in q fair way toward
being solved. This is the question of
supplying food to the starving peo-
pies Of liberated countries. It now
seems probable that the work will be
handled principally by the United
States. through Herbert C. Hoover,
American food administrator It has
been made plain to the entente ma
tions that the United States has no
wish to claim entire credit for the
work of relief In the minds of the peo-
pie who are to be fed and a satisfac-
tory understanding appears to be in
sight. Mr.. Hoover will confer with
the president again today
| Participation by the United States
/ n W. hat
handling food questions, matters of
shipping and the like is being grad
ually wound up, as American officials
are trending toward the opinion that
these are proper subjects for the con-
sfderation OF league Of nations or at
least of preliminary organizations
which may precede It.
! Address Attracts Interest.
Some OF those who have been giving
/ the subject zclcse study to have been
following the conferences with en-
tente representatives say they would
not be surprised II the real foundation
OF league of nations we're to be laid
| in cooperative arrangements between
the United States and the allies for
handling these fundamental questions.
Mr.. Wilson's address at Sorbonne on
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 CEN
trail powers had discussed If 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 dozen arbitration treat
! les, one of which was with Great Brit
ain. These treaties bound their sig
natories to discuss their controversies
for at least year before proceeding to
declaration of war. An attempt was
made to negotiate such a treaty with
Germany, but the Berlin government
refused to entertain it. It is also re-
called the same idea was once ex-
pressed in plan for preserving peace
but forward by a group headed by Wis
count James Bryce. former British am
bassador to the United States.
Conferences Satisfactory.
There is no official authority for the
statement that Mr.. Wilson is thinking
of the Bryan plan as one OF the ele-
ments 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 conference between Mr.
! Wilson, Premier Clemenceau, Premier
Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino
have gone, but French public men have
declared that their premier's talks
with the president were entirely sat
isfactory. 1t is also believed that Mr..
! Wilson has made substantial progress
! in his conferences with italian states
men.