Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-16
WILSON UPSETS
PLAN PROPOSED
To SETTLE THE
ADR|AT|C ROW
American Ambassador at
Paris Delivers to Foreign
Office a Note Voicing
Presidents Opposition, :
SIMILAR MEMORANDUM
IS SENT TO ENGLAND
j, S, viii Find It impossible
to Continue in Conference
Unless It is Consulted Re-
garding Matter,
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Paris, Feb, 15.--Hugh c. Wal
lace, the American ambassador,
yesterday delivered to the foreign
office a memorandum from Presi-
dent Wilson, according to the
Temps, in which the president said
he could not approve of Premier
Lloyd Georges proposed settlement
of the Adriatic question, which
has been submitted to the Jugo-
Slavs. The newspaper says that an
Identical memorandum was de-
lvered to the British foreign office
in London.
The Temps says President Will
son allowed it be understood that
the United States would find it inn
possible to continue in conference
if the allies settle the Adriatic
question without consulting the
United States.
Paris, Feb. 15.-Italian circles
in London are reported to be great
ly disturbed over note sent by
President Wilson to the supreme
allied council, in session there. dis
approving of the proposed com
promise by which 1t was hoped the
Adriatic question might be settled.
Paris Feb, 15,--In his mem
orandum President Wilson criti-
cises Premier Lloyd Georges plan
as communicated to the Jugo Slavs
by the supreme council on January
90. The president examined the
plan but declares he cannot ap-
prove of its tenor. He particularly
opposes the idea of giving the
Jugo Slavs the choice between this
plan and execution pure and sim
pie of the London pact.
In addition, according to the
Temps, the president finds the
Lloyd George plan too divergent
from the memorandum drawn up
at London last December by Pre-
miers Lloyd George and Clemen-
ceau, with the collaboration of the
American representative.
The president gives it to be un-
derstood that if the allied powers
settled the Adriatic problem with
out consulting the United States
government, the United States Will
find it impossible to concern Itself
in European affairs.
The memorandum was immedt"
ately examined by the chiefs of
the allied governments before tho
French premier left London Tor
Paris this morning.
Paris Feb. 1.-THE premiers
have drafted reply to President
wilson's note on the Adriatic ques-
tion which will be transmitted
through the American mbassadors
at London and Paris, according to
q member of Premier Millerand's
staff, who arrived in Paris tonight.
The greatest discretion is being
observed as to the contents of the
| eply, and it will not be made pub
lie until after it is received by the
president of the United States.
However, another delay in the Ad-
riatic settlement as a consequence
of the incident is foreseen in
French official circles.
Premier Millerand has called a
cabinet meeting for Tuesday to
hear his account of the London
He will also make a
on the diplomatic situa-
ton to the senate committee on
foreign affairs.
Washington, Feb. 15.-White
House officials tonight refused 10
discuss the statement of the Paris
Temps that President Wilson in
memoranda to the French and
British foreign offices has dlsap-
proved the latest proposal for set
tlement of the vexing Adriatic
problem. There was neither con
firmation nor denial that the posi-
ton of the United States had been
laid before the allied governments.
Granting that such memoranda
as reported by the Temps had been
other officials inter
preted that step as designed to
bring to a head the negotiations
that have been dragging along for
some time.
Disapproval of the most recent
proposal, which was advanced by
IGeHllel Lloyu beorBe anu IoH-
templating the making of Fiume a
free city under the league of ma
tions and the awarding to Italy as
a recompense a strip of territory
toward the south from Trieste, it
was said, would be entirely in line
with the stand taken by President
Wilson at Paris that Fiume should
he awarded to the Jugo -Slavs.
This position, 1t has been stated, is
the only one which Mr.. Wilson con-
siders in accordance with his four
teen points, on which Italy as well
as the other allied governments
made peace with the central
powers.
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