The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-17
GREAT TRIUMPH
FOR PREMIER
General Account Of Peace
Terms Gives Deep Salts
faction in England.
PARIS PAPER IN APPROVAL
Whole Structure Built by
Critics as to Broken
Pledges Demolished,

! Paris, April 17.-Premier Lloyd
| Georges refusal to give the details
of the peace terms in his speech In
London met with the entire approval
of the Petit Journal today.
'The French and British govern
ments agree that it is a necessity not
to compromise peace in order to sat
isfy the impatient ones" said this
newspaper.
Two Factions Fail to Applaud.
London, April 17.-While opinions
are divided regarding the substance
of the address of Premier Lloyd
George yesterday, there is a general
agreement by the London press that
it was a great parliamentary tri-
umph. as, indeed, was shown by the
rousing cheers of his audience and
the expressions of individual men-
bers in the lobbies. With. the excep-
tion of the laborite and Northcliffe
journals condemns the prennier's
statement wholly, while several
warmly applaud it. These admit Mr..
Lloyd George revealed nothing of the
peace-terms, but they do not COM
plain. The Telegraph. for instance.
SAYS his general account on the terms
will give deep satisfaction" and
adds that he demolished the whole
structure his critics built on his sup
posed departure from his election
pledges"
The Express declares its full belief
in the premier's statement that his
pledges would be found embodied in
the peace terms and says he retains
Lot Of
tion. The Graphic is equally favor
able and says incidentally Mr.. Lloyd
Georges statement "justifes the as
that President Wilson has
abandoned his opposition or alleged
opposition to the sterner views of
those powers which suffered most in
the war"
Will Be Peoples Fault.
Those who attack individual mem
bers of the peace conference, when
The chief concern of everybody is the
public interest, are condemned by the
Chronicle, which says:
IF the peace terms eventually dis
appoint any sane expectation, the
fault will lie less with the statesmen
in Paris than with the peoples they
The Post, which stands for the ex-
action of most severe terms from
Germany, says that the premer's ad-
dress is susceptible of various inter (
pretations, and that although Mr.. !
Lloyd George declared his readiness
10 print the terms of peace alongside /
of his pledges, at would be prefera !
BILE to see the terms alongside of the !
demands of justice and security, and /
according with them in every partic- ,
ular"
The Daily News admits there may |
have been serious reasons for with
holding information as to the terms |
If peace, but in the absence of evi
ience mere declarations that all /
pledges will be kept are idle. 1t is
a fact that some of them have not
been kent"
Approve Plan as to Russia.
Making a similar point, the Herald,
he labor organ, says:
All the premier's pledges cannot
oe kept, for they are contradictory
Is his speeches" The newspaper de-
,lares Mr.. Lloyd George 'left the in
situation where he found
( and completely missed his oppor-
unity"
The premier's rejection of any idea
If military action in Russia meets
With considerable approval.
The Mail. owned by Lord North
life, confines its comments virtually
o the premier's "gross diatribe"
lgainst Lord Northcliffe, who, saws
he paper, "cares as little for Mr..
lloyd Georges hostility as his friend
hip" The newspaper concludes:
an a speech in which melodramatic
and mere buffoonery were
o mingled it is difficult to know how
much is to be taken seriously"