Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-23
FIare-Up Against American
Journalists Dies Out Sud-
denly on Tip From French
Cabinet, It Is Said.
WORLD AND TIMES COME
IN FOR SHARP CRITICISM
American Writers Have Priv.
legeS Resented by Gallo
Newspapers Because of the
Local Censorship,
Copyright 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York World,)
Especial Cable Dispatch)

Paris, Feb. 22.-The polemic stated
by certain reaction Paris newspapers
against free expression of American
journalistic opinion on the French at
titude in the peace conference pre-
cumably may be considered at an end,
as seemingly it is not approved in
French official quarters.
1t is curious and amusing to find
that this crusade against the freedom
of the American press was conducted
by the very newspapers that day
after day had been necessarily critics.
ing President Wilson's policies in
terms at once sarcastic and mislead-
ing.
Cons dered Mere apite.
If the American journalists here
had chosen to take these editorial ut
terances seriously they might have
created an adverse state of opinion in
America, but the preferred to ignore
them, in the interest of good relations,
regarding them as mere ephemeral
outbursts by politicians naturally
chagrined at finding their cynical
views of what the peace conference
was convened to achieve steadily dis
appointed.
The campaign started Sunday in
certain French newspapers against
dispatches and articles published in
the World and the New York Times
bearing on the French attitude in the
peace conference had an echo yester-
terday morning when most of the
French dailies mentioned the matter
and one or two commented bitterly on
it, severely blaming the American cor
respondents and their newspapers.
Uncertain as to Facts.
Articles published in the United
States are again termed "boche
propaganda" L'Orde Public, the
youngest newspaper in Paris, its first
number having appeared February 1
supposes the World and the Times be-
long to Hearst, were influenced by
Count Won Bernstorff before America
entered the war, and continue to be
subject to German influence.
The outstanding feature of this
rather wild campaign on the part OF
our French contemporaries seems tC
be the complete ignorance of the
writer's of the policies of the Ameri-
can press, particularly of those news
papers which are now the objects OF
their violent attacks.
Jealous of Privileges.
Privileges granted the American
correspondents, particularly in respec
to the censorship, as told in these dis.
patches yesterday, evidently displeast
the ult-finding French press; ye'
strangely, certain newspapers tha
condemn American work on this score
are also attacking their own govern.
ment for its censorship policy One
of intg or irla IF IA \
two columns on the front page, il
which it contends that the draft o
the league of nations as presented t.
the plenary session of the peace con
ference of last Friday was wholly thu
composition of President Wilson ant
Great Britain.
France demands" this articl,
says that her representatives, while
remaining champions of justice anc
of right, show themselves ready Il
push forward and to act as realists a
well. France wants diplomac!
worthy of hery army" In the mex
column is sweeping attack on tn
American press.
Marcel Cachin, a socialist deputy
writing in L'Humanite, blames tn
French press for its Sarcasm ant
mockery'. in its attitude toward tn
American writer's. In an attacl
headed what Have We Done to Hell
Wilson" he recalls the presidents re
ception in France, England and Italy
and his meeting with the politica
allies.
All Sought Spols.
''In this reactionary circle he fount
himself completely isolated" h
writes. "He perceived the ambition
of the great and small, all DESTROYS
without thought of the future, of get
ting the larger part of the spoils. |
he read the Partisan newspapers h