Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-12
PEACE Conference
GETTING 4JUMPY'
Frances Stand Intensifies
Friction in Reaching
Final Adjustments.
FEELING AGAINST US. MEN
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
stan correspondent OF The Star.


BY Wireless.
/ PARIS, February 1.-The peace,
conference is getting jumpy. This is
/ simply because the nerves of the
statesmen themselves are getting
jumpy as a result of diligent effort to
speed up the deliberations of the con-
ference that business of the general
European economic readjustment, W.
tally essential thing, may be gotten
under way.
Any power which throws obstacles,
in the way of rapid progress or any
group of delegates that. through an
obstinate stand for purely Nationalist
tic aspirations, impedes the wheels Of
the conference, is Immediately tar
! get for concerted attack Attacks In
i the past few days against France and
vice versa are doing neither France
or the allies any good They have in
tensifed the friction existing between
the various groups and the effects Of
these conflicts is being felt among
the people generally.
French Growing Bitter.
| As a result French civilian feeling
! is growing more bitter toward the
allies daily. French officialdom seeks
| to deny il. But when confronted with
| the preponderant weight of evidence
they finally have to admit that this
| is true.
Feeling is particularly directed
against the American delegation TN
the peace conference, President VIII
son being the particular target for
official and civilian attack.
| A movement is definitely under way.
to undermine the influence of the
Americans in the peace conferences.
1t is denied in France, but the press.
| which is under the governments
thumb. continues to fling bricks in
the general direction of the American
delegation AS a result ii is less popu-.
lar among the people. ~
"Why Should q. S. Dictatef"
The average argument of the aver
age Frenchman today is. We'll, what
did America do in the war, anyway.
that she should come here to dictate
whether We are to have full reparN-.
ton and complete decentralization -
any extent we may desire to ask itE.,
But few weeks ago the people of
cies as panacea for what they terzn-
ed their innperfaiistie ills A chane1
in sentiment would not be illogical.
Clever propaganda of the French gov--
eminent which the allied peace defe-
gates in Paris charge has been spe-
| officially designed to strike at the
! justice of the allied cause and under
mine it with the people at the same
time seeks to hide the faults OF the
present government and sustain ii.
French statesmen may announces
that they are in accord with the broad
principles advanced by Lloyd George
and President Wilson. But the walls
of the Quai d'Orsay record another
story, it is charged
Threat Censored in Press.
| Propaganda is declared poisoning the
mind of the French people against -
| fair and equitable settlement of world
affairs, with the elimination of the
wild dreams of domination which him
der the other allies in reaching a final
! agreement. 1t is responsible for the
! allied threat to pick up this peace con-
ference and place it in a neutral sitting.
| Not word of this threat is permitted
| to reach the French public generally.
/ Broad blank spaces in those papers
| daring to attempt to let the people
! know that the liberalism of Lloyd
! George and President Wilson was be-
/ ing resisted tell what happened under
the French government censorship. -
The allies are not antagonistic to
France being fully indemnified for the
ruin created by the barbarous Huns.
They want France to have everything
to which she is truly justified, but OBJ
ject to retarding the business of peace
by trying to incorporate in the settle
ment Frances economic problems,
when this can be handled by other