Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-31
HOPE Of HANGING
EX-kA|SER FADES
AS TIME PASSES
Council of Four--WiISon, Lloyd
George, CIenenCeau and Or
lando--Runs Things; Japan
is Left Out Now,
BY James NJ. Tuohy.
(Staff Correspondent of the Abiquer-
que journal and New York WORLDLY
tThe New York World.)
Especial Gable Dispatch.)

tSpeCldl NdDle InSpdtcH.)
London, March 30-The reparations
problem, it is understood, occupied
the Big Four" this morning at the
presidents house, but decision re-
mains unattained. The responsible
tie commission has not yet found So
luton of the legal problem of how to
make the kaiser and company amen
able to international law, and the hope
of hanging him seems to be vanish
inc.
The waterways commission was
more fortunate and has given its re-
port on the Rhine question, which, it
is believed. recommends the revival of
an international commission with
special consideration of the rights of
France and neutrals.
The Polish situation remains un-
changed except that Ladislas Skrin-
sky becomes foreign minister at the
request of Ignace Paderewski, who
finds the premiership a sufficient bur
den.
Turk Problem Delayed.
Then the proposal to send an inter-
national commission to study Turkish
conditions in all their aspects on the
spot must obviously delay the peace
hoped could be-concluded at the same
time as with Germany and Austria.
French semi-official opinion still re-
CARDS the genuineness of the Hunga-
rian revolution as dubious because it
has been perfectly bloodless and 9TH
erwise has suggested an arrangement
between Count Karolyi and the Boil
shevists. But this Interpretation is not
char hn ntl
who take a grave view of it's likely
developments.
Germanys relations with Russian
Rolshevists are being keenly followed.
On the one hand Gustav Noske has
sent Karl Kautsky, the minority So
cialist leader on a mission to Trotzky,
while on the other there is informa
ton that Count Brockdorff- Rantzau
is treating with the reactionary Rus
sian elements. Germany's design to
get economic domination Of Russia is
taken for granted.
The whole outlook therefore is
menacing, as the conference has no
new Russian policy
Council of -Four Now.
The eclipse of the council of ten
and the emergence of an informal
council, the Big Four'-President
Wilson, Premiers Lloyd George,
Clemences and Orlando-as the de-
Gliding tribunal of the conference, is
the most significant evidence available
of a renewed resolution to speed up a
treaty of peace.
The French semi official explana-
ton is that progress became impos-
sible because of the cumbersome size
of the council of ten, which, with its
secretariat, its experts and stenogra-
piers and its other attaches, really
became council of forty, The dele
gates were suspected, with some rea-
son, of tT liking to place themselves on
record for future historians, rather
than to promote a quick decision.
The council of four dispenses with
these inducements to loquacity. They
sit alone and unattended, although
should the occasion arise they sum-
mon experts.
The council of four issues no COM
muniques. Credit for this reform, ac-
cording to British information, lies
with Premier Lloyd George who at
tho last weekend withdrew himself
to Fontainebleau. There he drafted a
memorandum setting forth the draw
backs of the existing system, suggest
ing the suppression of the council of
ten, except for registering decisions
already settled by the council of four,
outlining the procedure of the coun-
Gil of four and declaring secrecy inn
perative. President Wilson supported
the proposals made in this memoran-
dunn, as did Premier Clemenceau The
plan is in full operation and with
highly satisfactory results it is said.