Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-18
Neutrals Invited to Send Dele
gates to Conference on the
League of Nations to Be
Held in Paris.
COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES
TO BE PERMITTED HUN
France Has Permanently Aban-
doned Her Places to Inter-
nationaIize War Debt and
Have Amount PrOrated.
by Herbert Bayard SwOpe.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press publish
ing Co.
(The New York World.)
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(The New York World.)
Especial Wireless Dispatch)
Paris, March l7.-Many grave
peace problems have been deferred
for the final consideration of President
Wilson. Not the least of them are
matters of the Rhenish republics. the
relations of German Austria with Ger
many and other proposals looking to
the disintegraton of the former Ger
man empire.
These questions bear so intimately
upon the formula of self-determina-
ton that President Wilson is regarded
as the proper person to rule finally
on them.
French Plans Favored.
No one may say with authority
what his attitude will be, but others
of the American delegation have eX-
prssed themselves satisfied with the
l,ans offered by the French At the
Press club dinner, where Marshal
Foch, Andre Tardieu and Secretary
Lansing spoke, point was made of the
fact that much obscurity has been
cleared away and the true significance
is now appreciated of problems that
were not previously understood in all
their bearings.
Paris newspapers attach great i'm
portance to Secretary Lansing $
speech, and approve its tenor. He
took occasion to bring out certain
vital phases which the social and
economic world is facing. His sugges-
tions were along lines that have fire.
quently been presented in these dis
patches as showing the American po-
stion in respect to the world problems
now in course of solution.
Solve Economic Problem.
One OF these problems viii certainly
be solved at the meeting of the repre-
sentatives of the allies and of Ger
many in Brussels to resume the econo-
mic negotiations which were inter-
rupted in. Spa last week. There is a
touch of the dramatic in the presence
of Food Director Hoover on the dele
CATION, for the last time he met the
Germans was also in Brussels, when
they were conquerors and made him
feel their power.
With the delivery to the Germans
of guarantees that they will be fed
through August. there will be turned
over to the allies something like L.
100000 tons of merchant ships now
lying in Teutonic ports. 1t is probable
that while the majority of the ships
will be handled by allied crews, some
of them will be manned by German
sailors, who would otherwise be
thrown out of employment and so add
to disturbed conditions in Germany.
German sailors will be used on ships
sailing to neutral ports
Neutrals Invited.
Colonel House has invited the neu-
trail nations to send delegates to a
conference on the subject of the
league of nations in order that the
suggestions of neutrals may be con-
sidered with the view of possible in
clusion in the final draft of the pro-
iect Neutrals from South and Cen
trail America, with two significant ex-
ceptions, and from Asia and Europe
are embraced in the invitation. From
this announcement, it may be assumed
that provision for the league of ma
tions will not be included in the first
draft of the peace treaty which Ger
many will be asked to sign when Ger
man commissioners are sent for
around April /.
In drafting rules for the air forces
of Germany, the council of ten has
decided to permit the development of
commercial aircraft but to place o.
Ian on war machines.
Premier Clemenceau, looking as
strong, energetic and snappy as al
football player, called upon Colonel
House last evening for an hour, going
over matters to be submitted to Pres
ident Wilson on the train from Brest,
so that the president may be posted
on the work ahead of him.
France has definitely abandoned
plans she had contemplated for the
internationalization of the war debts.
I make this statement on authority. III
is the French intention to tackle the
stupendous job OF reconstruction sin
gle handed, except for such assistance
as she may normally receive from her
associates 1t may be said with GER
tainty that her ministers are no longer
the allies, as had been previously
giving consideration to the idea. of
crtioning war obligations among
the allies, as had been previously
urged though not officially.
In this attitude, as well as in her
willingness that German gold be used,
il necessary. for revictualing Ger
many, France is displaying a spirit
that is winning commendation from
r,any who had been censorious Of her
course because of her apparent re-,
luctance to face what the critics re-
garded as the inevitable. Now she
has rolled up her sleeves and is pitch
ing into the job with energy, instead
of dallying with the hope that some
thing would turn her way. Her pres
ent disposition is encouraging to the,