The evening world., 1919-04-24
SOLUTION MUST Be FOUND
IS OPINION IN FRANCE
ON GRAVE PEACE CRISIS
Writers There Differ as to Causes
Of Situation but Agree as to
It's importance.

| us importance.
PARIS, April oi-As to the gravity
Of the crisis which has risen in the
Peace Conference. there are no two
opinions in France to-day. There is
agreement, also, that no stone must
! he left unturned to find solution Of
the existing deadlock.
As to the causes OF tho crisis opin-
ions differ widely. The moro con
servative opinion. as represented by
such organs as tho Figaro. is inclined
TO dcplore President Wilson's action
in making his statement public. as
! likely to do more harm than good
ITS evident object" the Figaro
says, 'is TO transfer to the market
place negotiations and discussions
much better carried on in calm and
privacy. What was only a difference
might thus be transformed into a
quarrel"
NJ st. Brice. in Lc Journal says
the incident was the result of the
manifold mistakes made by all
parties. Tho Italians, he thinks,
committed a gross blundcr in pub
fishing their claims in advance. thus
eliminating all possibility Of manoeu-
wiring
1T was a bad start which weighed
heavily on the regulations from the
first" he continues. "and the discus
sions only accentuatcd the points OF
difference. The compromise plan
left by President Wilson when he
withdrew from the Council Of Four
on April 81 might have had some
chance OF success IL IT had been put
| forth by an independent arbitrator,
but France and England could not
very well indorso n proposal at vari-
ancc with tho Treaty of London"
NJ. st. Brico declares that n rupture
was so far from the intention of tlc
Italians yesterday that in the morn
ing Salvatore Barzilai called upon
Premier Clcmenceau in behalf of the
Italian delegation and submitted a
fresh proposal for a compromise
which Italy would take the city OF
Fiume and the Jugo- -Slavs, the suburb
OF Susan, across the River Recina.
Italy further agreed TO rcnounCC hct
claim 20 the Dalmatian coast, getting
the islands only and receiving from
tho League Of Nations a mandate tc
administer the cities of cara and
A Scbenico. The horizon was clearing
tho writer declares, when President
Wilson's statement came like bomb
shell.
Writing in tho Echo de Paris, per.
tinaX' launches force diatrlbt
against President Wilson,
1--WE have already sacrificed toe
much TO the Wisonian doctrine
solomnly condemned by the American
voters last November" he says. 1.-The
international regime we have accept.
ed for the Sarro marks an act oi
weakness which will cost our coun.
try dear. Are we going still further
day in our enthusiasm for the new
order? Are we going to tear up al
existing treaties? IL nothing to re,
main OF our allianCc?'
LOeuvre represents the opposite
extreme among the commentators,
I'VE do not disguise tho fact ,ha
} in such a moment We heard Will
genuine emotion tho voice Of prosi
dent Wilson rise above the muttcr
pgs OF these international conrdbula
tions," II says. president Wilson
tired OF the confidential wire pulling
Of secret diplomacy has finally rcn
, the veil and appealed 10 publ
, opinion"
Z LONDON. April PA documcn
Z OF decisive Importance" the Man
I chester Guardian terms Prcsiden
. Wilson's appeal. Pointing out tina
= the question is one OF applying princi
y pies, 1t continues:
THAT IL what gives to this grca
, deliverance OF the American Presl
dent its supreme Importance. in i'm
= portancc going far beyond the par
g, ticular matter 1t controversy. lie
/, there be no mistake az to it's Sgni
i iance. What the President says h
- means. These are not merely word,
they are an act
Tho Guardian analyses the Italia
position in sNmputhCtic vein, say
90 ing II can perfectly undrr8.0p
; Italian feeling in a matter whore his
:, torc tradition played SO Important
- part, but il warns Italy against plrs4
o ing historic claims too hard.
a After ALL" concludes the Gun .diai
% 1.-The support OF America for "A worl
10 peace Ia worth a good deal more tha
the security which any DartiCulu