New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
terms to be included in the new armi-

terms to be included in the new armi-
stice agreement, but the Tribune cor
respondent has it on high authority
that there Is still slight tendency
on the part Of certain members of the
Supreme War Council to withdraw from
the stringent application of the meas
ton to the purely military terms of the
armistice there are also financial,
economic and territorial stipulations.
This largely explains what otherwise
would seem desire to dilute the
German defeat and if there exist in
the Supreme War Council two parties
they may be justly defined as that
holding the military question supreme
over all and that which sustains the
prime Importance of the economic view
of things. 1t remains to discover the
golden medium and there is no doubt
that the general temper of the council
is so friendly as to make this certain
Expect Agreement Thursday
For instance, it is known that
Marshal Foch, who had insisted with
the most extreme vigor on the military
maximum, has now come around to the
admission that other factors have
almost equal Importance. When the
armistice debate is resumed Thursday
it is believed that the quick attainment
of decision will be certain.
The Echo de Paris makes the peace
conference discussion of the revic-
tualling of Germany an occasion for
criticising the attitude of both the
American and British delegates After
admitting that the dispatch of food
to Germany might tend to check the
disorders which. for political reasons,
no other. the Allies desire to stop.
the paper goes on:
Moreover, the revictualling offers
an arm of exceptional strength for the
imposition of our will on the enemy.
1t will play large part in the armis-
tice. Unhappily. on this point our CON
ceptions are not in accord with those
Of Chicago and Manchester. powerful
communities in the view Of Washington
and London statesmen We, wish to
sustain Germany, but first in order
TO recover our debts and hold in check
tho German reaction. Manchester and
Chicago SEQ in the affair only an OPP
portunity to dispose of their goods.
New Scheme Presented
ain January the United States sup
ported the thesis that the feeders Of
Germany must be paid at once--yes,
paid before the inhabitants Of tho
north Of France and Of Belgium, with
whom, in exchange for the goods
stolen. only reluistion orders were
left. They nearly made good, and on
Saturday last the scheme was recon-
mended in new guise before the
economic committee.
"The French and Italians demanded
that Germany send raw materials, not
ably coal, in exchange for what she
received. The hucksters naturally
would not consent. They persist in
seeing in Germany not a bankrupt
whose estate must be rigidly admins
tered for The general body of credi-
tors, but a serious customer entitled
to a checkbook. Lord Robert Cecil gave
his ingenious dialcctic service to this
bad cause. The revictualling Of the
enemy will serve our alliance only il it
is carried out according to the rules of
justice"
Figaro" after appreciatvely quot
ing Senator Lodges remarks with ref
erence to France, expresses the belief
that the league of nations can function
only after peace is concluded.
"All the difficulties encountered
either in America or Europe arise from
faulty reasoning" this journal con-
tinues. "It has been hoped to draw
peace out of previously formed
league of nations, instead of founding
a league for the maintenance of peace.
We shall remain confused at sort of
crossroads as long as peace remains
underlined and unsigned. 1t is Inter-
nationalist and Socialist ideas which,
in giving formulas precedence over ex-
perience, have engendcred this grave
mistake in method.
"To make peace durable let us define
it clearly and make it reality. Let us
not longer leave it to the evident prof
it Of Germany, in state of dreams
and hypothesis"
The "Matin" prints long open letter