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 go to the Serb -Croat-Sloyene state. All Adriatic islands were to be de- militarized.
 President Wilson's note of Janu- ary 19 in protest to these arrange ments, asked whether it was "the intention of the British and French governments in the future to dispose of the various question pending in Europe and to communicate the re- suits to the government of the Unit ed States.
 Wilson's Protest.
 The British and French premiers argued that the disposal of the free , state of Plume would re-unite 200,- 900 Jugo-Slavs with their fatherland and that the Albanian settlement was such as to afford satisfaction "to the necessary requirements of all parties concerned"
 They characterized it as fair ! settlement of "a difficult and dan gerous question" and that in the event of it's not being accepted they would be driven to support the en- forcement of the treaty of London, which is satisfactory to nobody" 1 Both premiers disclaimed any in- tention to show the slightest dis l courtesty to the United States or that they wished to conceal their action in any way" As President l Wilson was not at the conference they said, they thought the best 1 plan was to proceed with the negotia- | : %o lo fo the United States.
 1 President Wilson's reply of Feb ruary 10 said he could not "believe ceived the we'll merited commenda- tion of the French and British gov ernment (referring to the settlement of December 9 can in any sense be regarded as right" He could not agree that the memorandum of Janu- ary IA left unchanged practically ev- cry important point as argued by the British and French premiers and de- clared his opinion that the original proposal had been "profoundly alter ed to the advantage of improper Italian objectives, to the serious in- jury of the Jugo-Slav people and tc the principle of the world peace"
 The fact that it objected to the proposal of December g and accept ed that of January IA, the president thought was proof that Italy would receive "every advantage"
 President Wilson pointed out that while the British and French gov. ernments in the agraament of De- cember 9, occurred in the view that a corridor for Plume ran "countel to every consideration of geography economies and territorial conven- tions, they agreed to it by memo randum of January 14."
 l President Wilson said that whereas the agreement of December g exclud- l ed every form of Italian sovereignty 1 over Plume, he could not "avoid the conclusion" that the agreement ot January IA, "opens the way fo, Italian control of Fumes foreign af. fairs" The president said he felt the original agreement gave prope' protection to the railway. connecting Plume with the interior, but that the 'lagreement of January IA, established FItaly Gin dominating military posi- ] tions close to the railway at mum Der of points"
 "Italy's unjust demands" said tho presidents note, "have been con Edemned by the French and British igovernments in terms no less severe than those of the United States
 There is thus substantial agreemen'
 to the injustice and inexpediency 0,
 Italy's claims"
 ! The presidents latest note sait the American government "is un
 willing ito recognize either an un T just settlement based on a secre
 method the terms of which are incon
 sistent with the new world condi
 tions, or an unjust settlement ar
 rived at by employing that secre
 treaty as an instrument of coercion | "The Adriatic issue as it now presents itself raises the funda mental question as to whether tho ! American government can on an! l terms cooperate in the great work O. maintaining the peace of the worlt i by removing the primary causes 0.
 war, if substantial agreement on what is just and reasonable is no
 to determine international issues
 if the country possessing the mos endurance in pressing its demand' rather than the country armed witt a just cause is to gain the support of the powers; if forcible seizure o1 coveted areas is to be permitted anC condoned and is to receive ultimate justification by creating a situation so difficult that decision favorable te l the aggressor is deemed a necessity
 "If, in word, the old order ot things which brought so many evils on the world is still to prevail ther the time is not yet come when this | government can enter a concert ol powers which must depend upon a new spirit and new order."
 The president wound up his note bv saving that if the maximum con sessions made in the memorandum of December could not be accepted "the president desires to say that he must take under serious consid- eration withdrawal from the treaty of Germany and the agreement be- tween the United States and France (the French-American alliance which are now before the senate and permitting the arms of the European settlement to be independently es- tablished and enforced by the as- sociated governments"
 Millerand,, who succeeded Clemen- ceau as premier of France. and Llnvd George, replied under date of Feb ruarv IT, saving there was "no foundation for the assumption that the new settlement involves "a capi- tulation of the Italian noint of view as opposed to the Jugo-Slavs."