The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
NO PICKERING,
GERMANS TOLD
Allies May Finish Treaty by
Saturday. and ENJOYS Must
Have Powers.
LEAGUE STILL IN DOUBT
japanese to Make Another
Equality Demand Under
Pressure From Toxic.
LEAGUE STILL IN DOUBT
By a Stdf Correspondent o. THg ,ry.

'opHr'p"t, 1919 az ri0htS reserueS
PARIS. April o1.-As explained in
American circles to-day, the Allies
peremptory demand TO the Germans
that they send plenipotentiar.es and
not mere couriers to the Peace Con-
sress means that the German dele
getes must come with power to act.
and that the responsibility will not be
left to the Weimar Assembly.
There will he no objection to the
pleripotentiaries consulting the Ger
man Assembly at Wcimar. but the
Allies do not propose to conduct no.
gotations with a distant assembly.
The Allies insist the German delegates
hold full power. The German inten-
ton to put every disputed point be-
fore the Weimar Assembly will not be
tolerated
or all the peace delegations OF the
larger Powers the Americans alone are
firm i'll their belief that the Germans
will sign the peace treaty without 100
much preliminary fencing. The other
delegations are inclined to believe that
It may he necessary to translate the
terms of the treaty into decisions or
perhaps into acts To- mako the Ger
mans accept the terms
The treaty may be ready for the Ger
mans Saturday noon. as soon as the
secret plenary session that day gives
fnr NIL
planned to hold Il plenary session for the
league covenant, but this depends APP
parcntly on secret negotiations now GO
ing on with the japanese, who are
making last effort to get an equality
clause into the DOCUMENT
The German move in first announcing
mat only small delegation ard without
pienipotentiary powers woull bc sent to
Versailles may have been prompted by
press reports that the Weimar assembly
would rave II week to discuss tive treaty.
from which deductions might have been
made that the Germans would not he
expected To discuss the treaty when the
congress at Versailles opened But
with President Wilson anxious to return,
TO America AS soon as possible he re
CARDS ii as essential that discussions
should go on simultaneously here and al
Weimar.
The first German announcement
raised an uproar in the Paris press.
St Brice, in the journal. in common with
other writer's. said that the Allies
Immediately must announce a time limit
on the whole discussion
In the meantime the Allies are
threatened with tremendous log lam
in getting the treaty ready. There is
no question that IL IL hadn't been for
Premier Lloyd Georges political situ-
alton, the twenty-ilfth of April never
would have been set as the date for
calling the Germans
The Big Four's delay in settling the
remaining questions seems to make IT
impossible for the experts to have the
treaty ready before saturday Even the
reparation matter still has kinks to be
unravelled. The Italian problem is s,ill
critical Tho Shantung problem has
come up at the last minute. and mas
much as it was "A former German pos
session II must be adjusted and he in
the treaty, This is believed TO explain
the Presidents conference with Rarons
Chinda and Maxine. the japanese en-.
voys, this morning.
All reports have yet TO he formally
accepted by the fun conference, in
Guiding the league covenant; hut owing
W VIC "s' eeIH'll'S NOW reached IL seems
unlikely that a plenary session will be
held for this purpose before Wednes-
day or Thursday, unless the japanese
carry out their plan to make light
over the league, The Americans be-
iieved the Japanese had given up this
plan last week, but there were indica-
lions to-day that the japanese might
press ii, advices from Toxic having
made the situation appear most alarm
ing there.