Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-19
b0NAR LAW SAYS NOTE 10 AMERICA WASN'T MODIFIED Denial Illustrates Conflict of Utterances on Asiatic
 Questions STU ATION NOT AS
 TENSE AS REPORTED Belief Expressed in London Official Between Nations be
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London. Feb. 18.-The emnhatic denial of A. Bonar Law, the govern ment spokesmen, in the house of commons today that the draft of the reply to President Wilson's note concerning the Adriatic controversy had been modified as result of representation from Viscount Grey, Lord Robert Cecil and Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain, was the only important new development m the Adriatic situation.
 The denial is considered to illus trate the conflict between official and unofficial utterances and to show the anxiety of the British press for full publicity in the face of what is deemed great strain between Great Britain and the United States
 There seems to be defect in the supreme councils machinery in the opinion of observers here, who as- sert that if the council sitting in Paris had organized machinery to convey it's decisions to Washington nothing of the kind had been em- ployed in London. John w. Davis American ambassador, has received no direct verbal or written commun- ication from the council, and only gains knowledge concerning it from conversations he holds.
 The belief was expressed in diplo- matic and supreme council quarters today by persons who had good knowledge of the councils reply to President Wilson, that the situation is less charged with irritating possi- bilities than some of the reports have indicated. In the first place, it was said President Wilson's note was not curt missive but a full detailed explanation of his viewpoint. The supreme councils reply, it was declared, was equally considerate in giving details and was, if anything, longer than the presidents message,
 The new Serbian minister in Lon don holds the view that the Italians and the sJqgo- -Slavs can geach an arrangement of the controversy satis- factory to themselves.
 Secret Negotiations Scored.
 Criticism of the failure to make public President Wilson's notes ard the allied reply is feature of some of the comments of the London pa- pers, while the denial that Viscount Grey and Lord Robert Cecil had in- fluenced the council modify it's re- ply is declared to be partly untrue.
 The Daily Mail, for instance, says it is an open secret that the country owes debt of gratitude to Lord Grey for his activities in the matter and the Times characterizes the de- nial as an "example of verbal quib- bling which inferior intelligence mis- take for diplomacy"
 Insisting that publicity of the whole situation is necessary the Times says the democracies on both sides of the Atlantic should be told the truth and adds:
 "We are not going to stand by and have our friendship with America jeopardized by the proceedings of a triumvirate sitting behind closed doors. The American democracy we imagine will not be less resolved to assert their rights and stifle this ef- fort at. secret diplomacy.
 Both the Times and Mail again vemhemently express anxiety lest the supreme councils action imperil the relationship between Europe and America. The former believes a di- rect agreement between Italy and the Jngo Slavs can be achieved.