The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-10
AMERICANS KEENLY
FEEL THE DELAYS
Think That a Great Deal
Might Have Been Accom-
plished if Allies Full Del
egations Had Arrived on
Time.

London, Jan. 10 tReuter dispatch TO
Canadian Press ~ Messages from Paris
indicate that Premiers Clemenceau and
Lloyd George have scored a great success
on the question of the freedom Of the
seas and that very little is likely to be
said on this subject when the actual
peace conference assemblies.
The Spanish Moroccan question has
also been settled to the satisfaction of
England and France.
Paris, Jan lO.-After nearly month
of waiting and preparation, conversations
which will lay the foundation of the ac-
tual peace congress are about TO start.
American delegates feel that a great deal
of progress might have been made before
now if full representation Of the ma
tions allied against Germany had arrived
promptly.
The British plenipotentiaries now are
expected to arrive Saturday As many
Of the principal questions to be threshed
out in preliminary conferences concern
most intimately the United States, Great
Britain and France, there il some hope Of
fair hesdway being made while awaiting
the official announcement Of the full Ital-
ian delegation and the arrival Of the Jap
anese representatives. The Belgians will
arrive next week.
The first few conferences between the
Americans, French and British viii prob
ably develop Just how much progress
may be expected before President Wilson
goes home next month. 1t is settled that
when he reaches America, one of his first
acts will be to address Congress and give
report on what has been accomplished.
Some American diplomats here agree
that the most Mr. Wilson can hope to
report win probably be general under
talking of the widest sort upon a set of
principles which must be left TO be ap-
piled by the peace congress. Physical
conditions alone will probably prevent
the accomplishment Of more than this
during the remaining six weeks of his
stay.
Organization work has taken the
Americans month, and even now they
are only partly ready. The French, of
course, have their organization on the
spot The British have brought over
from England a highly developed ma
chine which is virtually ready TO func-
ton. The Japanese will have to organ
ize after reaching here, as will the Bel
gians and other minor belligerents
These preliminaries will not necessar-
lily delay the informal conversations, but
they viii hamper the working Of group
plan conferences by which the principal
belligerents expect to thresh out points
with interested neutrals, non -belligerents
y.z{fa,,o -,
and reduce their results to memoranda
which are to 60 to the peace congress for
inclusion in the final settlement.
President Wilson's feeling, on coming
to Europe as early as he did, was that
al the entente governments had made
their preparations to get down to talking
peace. He and the American commission
ers have been disappointed by the delays
The American delegates are understood
to feel very strongly that unless plans
are made to permit the activities ol
peace to be resumed in warning coun
tries, the rehabilitation of their armies
may bring unwelcome problems.
The return of Mr.. Wilson to the United
States will reduce the American delega
tion to four, but it was explained to-day
that delegations will vote as units, ant
that the president never had intended Il
sit continuously at the peace table.
All the progress that has been made
has been in President Wilson's confer
ences with French, British and Italian
statesmen. These conferences have ap
preached only broad principles. In tn,
conversations about to begin the progress
that has been made in individual eoun
tries viii be brought into the discussion
and general agreements sought.