New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Entente Embassies
In Washington Look
For NeuU Peace Driue
(Specio, Disnatch To The Tribuuc)

Especial Dispatch to The Tribnmc)
WASHINGTON, May 4.-Opinion at
two Entente embassies comedies with
the view expressed by Lord Robert
Cecil. British Parliamentary Secretary
for Foreign Affairs and Minister Of
Blockade, that the German offensive in
the West will be forwarded in insin-
cere peace offers from Germany, but
which will be so designed as to appear
possibly tempting to the peoples of the
Allied nations and the United States.
One authority believed the Central
Powers would offer to give up Alsace
Lorraine. provided the Allies permitted
Austria to incorporate Serbia, and to
evacuate Belgium and Northern France
if allowed free hand in Russia.
France, it was declared, could not con-
slder any such proposal, being morally
certain that any such settlement would
not be intended as permanent one by
Germany, and that Germany would at
tempt to recover Alsace-Lorraine in a
very few years. What the Allies and
America must secure, it was asserted,
is a dehnitive peace that solves with
reasonable certainty all existing prob
lens likely to lead to new wars if they
are not determined now, and the major
OF them is the destructiop of Ger
many's military power.
Nothing official is known here of the
announced intention of the Pope to
make fresh peace proposal. In any
event, it is believed he can present no
definite proposition that would force an
Issue, and that any appeal from the
Vatican would be only repetition of
the Holy Sees appeal to the bellgerent
nations in the name Of humanity to
stop the slaughter of war;
According to semi oiliclal dispatches,
May Day passed il. !. comparatively
quiet way in Austria, there being prac-
tically no disturbances to which any
significance might be attached. Re-
ports from neutral European countries,
however reveal that the Nationalist
agitations in Austria-Hungary have
grown into strong movements, and that
both the Szech and Jugoslav causes are
making notable hcadway. The progress
of these movements has caused the
Dual Monarchy to attempt to mollify
the dissatisfied nationalities with prom
ises of constitutional reform, but the
work of the parliamentary committee
created to study the problem and tot
report recommendations to the Reichs-
rat is being hampered by the refusal
cf the Czechs and Jugoslavs to CO.
operate.
The report that Prince Won Buelow
might succeed Count Won Hertlng as
GeTHan Imperial chancellor was read
here to-day with considerable interest
in diplomatic circles. 1t was recalled
that Count Won Bernstorff, when Ger
man Ambassador here, often asserted
that when Germany made peace Prince
Won Buelow would negotiate it. The
prince on several occasions has been
recalled to Berlin from Switzerland,
where he has resided for the larger
part of the war, with conferences with
authorities in Berlin, and one notable
instance was about the time of the re-
tirement Of Won Bethmann-H -Hollweg as
Imperial Chancellor, when it was re-
ported Buelow was summoned to Ber-
lin by the Crown Prince.
= 1t. is thought here that Prince Won
Buelow, while towering above his con-
temporaries in Germany as diploma
tst and although in disfavor with the
Emperor, is inclined toward the Grown
Prince and the military leaders, and
that he is their choice as the one to
conduct any critical negotiations be-
tween Germany and the Entente
powers, and especially to direct the
peace pourparlers.