Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-17
FRENCH CENSOR
KEEPS ANE R|CAN
CRITICISM DOWN
Paris Editions of American
Papers Appear With Blank
Spaces Where French Posi-
ton Had Been Opposed,
N3y Herbert Bayard Swope.)
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub
fishing Co

Paris Feb l6.-AlthOugh direct as
surances have been given to the Amer
lean mission by French officials that
the Objectionable methods of propa-
ganda, of which the Americans had
complained would be stopped, today's
Paris papers offered instances of the
offensive practice.
Local editions of the New York
Herald and Chicago Tribune had great
blank spaces when they appeared on
the streets, showing where the censor
mad been busy in delct,ng all alluson
TO the attitude assumed yesterday by
the American delegates to the French
program of branding as pro- German
all opposition to French plans.
Ccnsor's Hand Heavy.
In the last two weeks the French
papers have been permitted to com
ment adversely on the position of the
American and British missions. When
the Americans sought to give their
side and TO voice the resentment they
felt toward a course they regarded as
unfair, the official censor has denied
them the right of publication.
Display by the Fren,n of the spirit
as instanced led to the definite warn
ing from American sources that UNI
would be an attempt to remove the
conference from Paris
1t IS assumed that the dispatches
of correspondents reporting yester-
days developments were permitted
to go 20 America without hindrance
but the French public has been denied
the right to be informed of our pro-
tests against the style of publicity that
has been employed
Patience ut an End.
Members of the American mission
say tonight they have been given to
understand that the methods to which
they object will be barred hereafter.
If another complaint should be pro
vokcd It will be their last one, they
declare, and they will accompany it
with definite action of q protective
nature.
Two serious and highly important
matters have been brought before the
France is insisting that
the league of nations shall incorpo-
rate an industrial standing army to
which all the members of the league
shall contribute. Presumably the
army would be under the command
of Marshal Foch. This force would
be used as frances first line of de-
Tense against Germany, whose mill
tary menace is the subject of daily |
1t was pointed out early IN the pro-
roedings that the United States would |
be unable, for constitutional reasons, /
to join IN such an undertaking. Moth /
ing further was heard of the propo- !
sition until Saturday. when Prof. |
Ferdinand Larnaude, dean of the law
faculty of the University of Paris. !
spoke of it in conversation with Amer !
can correspondents, followed by a /
definite demand today by Leon Bour- |
geois, the French delegate on the !
of the society of nations, |
1t meeting of the commission.
The matter will go over until Thurs
lay, when the final draft Of the con-
of the league will he con-
'idered. with the view of presenting it I
o full session Of the conference on
If the French persist in this posi-
ion it will not be possible for Prcsi-
lent Wilson, who will leave here on
sunday, to take back with him the
approved draft, for his attitude to-
ward the international army cannot
,e changed. Some close observers see :
n the renewal of this matter another
'llbIl " blOtk progress, IN the nope
hat there may thus he brought about
ull concession of the French demands
n respect to the terms of the armis- Il
ice extension
French armistice plans constitute
he second feature that has been en-
hasized today. These dispatches have
PREVIOUSLY outlined French aims. in
Which Great Britain and the United
tates have been unable to acquiesce.
Insists on blockade.
The French wish the occupation of
Issen, the continued occupation of the
Eft bank of the Rhine. the disman-
ling of the forts on the western front
t Germany and the reduction of the )
ierman army to impotence. But
rance is not willing to tighten the
everity of the blockade, insisting that {
stringent blockade Is military ne I
essitN. Americans hold that such |
blockade hampers neutral commerce II
nd is likely to affect seriously and J
lstngly German credit American {
nd British industry are also in a
leasure concerned. a prospect to
'hich the French are seemingly in
iffercnt. !
French demands, reduced to writ
lS, have been referred to a subcom-
littee of the supreme war council,
htch is expected to report within two
avs as to the course to- be followed ,
l the armiStice meeting of February
l. our position is that Germany
nould not be shackled if she is ex-
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