New Britain herald., 1919-01-10


 the nations allied against Gernaa had arrived promptly
 British Delegates Coming. @
 The British plenipotentiaries n are expected to arrive Saturday. many of the principal questions to threshGd out in preliminary conf ences concern most intimately United States Great Britain France, there is some hope of ] headWay being nude while await the official announcement of the Italian delegation and the arrived the Japanese representatives. Belgians will arrive next week.
 will Report to Congress.
 The first few conferences betw the Americans, French and Brit will probably develop just how 1n1 progress may be expected bel President Wilson goes home Il month, It is settled that when reaches America, one of his first will be to address congress and E a report on what has been accI 'pIished. Some American diplona here agree that the most MT. wiz can hope to report will probably lH general undertaking of the wiz sort upon set of principles WA must be left to be applied by peace congress. Physical conditH alone will probably prevent the complishment of more than this @ ing the remaining six weeks of stay.
 France and England OrganizedA
 Organization work has taken Americans month, and even they are only partly ready. French of course, have their orM ization on the spot. The British I@ brought 6ver from England a hi@ developed machine which is virtu# ready to function. The Japanese have to organize after reaching M as will the Belgians and other m belligerents.
 These preliminaries will not neM sarily delay the informal conve M t1Ons, but they will hamper the w3 ing of group plan" conferences which the principal belhgerents KS pect to thresh out points with inter I ed neutrals, non -belligerents or m @ nations engaged in the war and M duce the results to memoranda w 2 are to go to the peace congress 8 inclusion in the final settlement.
 Disappointed at Delays.
 President Wilson's feeling, on c@ ing to Europe as early as he did, Ks that all the Entente governments # made their preparation to get q @ to talking peace. He and the An@ can com missioners have heen di# pointed by the delays. The AmerM dci+g gates are understood to feel M strongly that unless plans are TN to permit the activities of peace td@ resumed in warning countries, the m obilization of their armies may b unwelcome problems. e4
 Only Four |. S. Delegates.
 The return of MT. Wilson to United States will reduce the Am M can delegation to four but it was M plained today that delegations x vote as units and that the presld@ never had intended to sit continuI I ly at the peace table.
 All the progress that has been m@ has been in President Wilson's c# fcrences with French, British
 Italian statesmen. These confereI 8 have approached only broad D ciples. In the conversations abou M begin the progress that has been m x with individual countries proba will be brought into the discussion @ general agreements sought.
 Eighty Delegates to COnfcrcnce@ @
 There will probably be so deleg8 at the peace congress, if the prog K presented to the delegates today Ks the French government is approM x by the supreme council. There W in addition, be extra delegates fM most of the nations represented. TlW will be called into the congress w H special subjects upon which they experts are under consideration.
 Other American Envoys.
 Lord Hardinge, former viceroy India; Sir Louis Mallet, British d bassador to Turkey. and Sir Esme Howard, British minister to Swit3@ land, probably will appear for GrM Britain as extra delegates. Bern Ba ruch. Vance Mccormick and ot specialists will be called upon by United States peace commission.
 Changes in Plans Suggested.
 Changes in the plans hitherto q sidered were suggested today. TH concerned principally the number delegates to be given to the sma N powers. Most of those which clared war on the Central Empi# will have three. These nations aM Greece, Serbia, Portugal, RumaTH Brazil and China. Poland a# Czecho- -slovakia will have two ca Countries which simply broke reM lions with either of the Cent@
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