The Pensacola journal., 1920-02-18
FAVORS LEAVING
EUROPE ALONE
Republican Candidate Saws VIII
sons Threat to Withdraw
Best Thing He Ever Did.
MORGANTHEAU WARNS
UNITED STATES
Europeans Look on Presidents
Attitude as Having Precipi-
tated Grave Situation.

washington, Feb i7.-Senator Poin-
dexter of Washington. candidate for
the republican presidential nomination.
.oiu ties National Press Club tonight
l'ldt resident Wilson's reported pro-
posad TO withdraw from European ar
1alrs on account Of the Adriatic con
troVersy was one of the best things
the president ever said. If European
powers forced carrying out of the
pan, ne declared, the United States
might be spared the serious consc-
quences now threatening it because or
the peace settlement.
lie said the remaining members OF
the cabinet will undoubtedly he
AFRAID OF their shadows and that II
ought to be called the ground hog
cabinet"
New York, Feb. i7-Warning that
onlted states would be involved in
another European war within ion
Years unless she accepts her share of
The responsibilities of putting Eurone
ana Asia on their feet again xyas ID
Tered bore f"ni"ht by Henry AIorgen-
thau
LoHa7a Feb The allied supreme
countli has completed the draft Of lis
answer - a-c ident Wilson'S Adri-
ATTIC Inemorand8m and will hand If TO
AmhasssaEf J5Nis tonight for trans
mission - lington.
IisE COUNT eclned today TO make
pus9tls l@csla It Wilson's communj
60 g, 3.7 epfy 1t is stated that
.ne E,iht of the text will prob
a1iN BE- -fft to the American presi-
dsnt. p'''
Esuaes' -. lit is impossible to
stl3tSt5is gravity of the results
4t"a ay follow the supreme allied
tsliaef ply to President Wilson's
5lqt fai to the Adriatic settlement
9age q 3iail.
Angio-American relations for n
generation may we'll depend upon tbe
terms of the reply" the newspaper
continues. This country is anyio,,s
mat justice be done between ItaIv and
Jugo-Slavia. and is equally anxious to
cultivate closest friendship with tho
United States which is a conversions
Oh BRUSH foreign relations. We trust
thereforc that moderation and clear
sleiitedness may characterize the reply
so tllat lie very real crisis with which
tiIs country is confronted with NAV
be avertcd"
port of Italy, Belgrade NAV cvontuaIjv
accept the compromise thereby rcIiev
ing Tie tension between Europc and thc
United States.
MT Wilson's action" remarks the
lrlDune, places an insurmouniablc
obstacle IN the way OF a settlement or
the Adriatic question Free Europe can
not tolerate the imposition of the viii
OF one man who in nowise represents
the views Of his country nor even his
own party"
Rome, Feb. Recommending on
President Wilson's note to the supreme
aleed council, the Gironale d'Itaia
says:
His intervention was coucbed IN
such an ungenial form as to arouse
the suspicion it was suggested only by
MS lnvincible aversion toward Italy
lie must have convinced even his com
patriots that he is guided only by
animosity Therefore the allies have
reacted energetically against his atti-
tude which is offensive also to their
dignity as to the compromise pro
posals sent to Belgrade were formed
chiefly by Premier Floyd George. Mr..
Wilson, who purposely was not repre-
sented at the discussion of the com
promise has no right to veto his appli-
cation"
The Corriere d"Italia contends Pres
ident Wilson should have expressed
his opinion of the solution of the Adrf-
attic question when it was discussed
instead of when il was about to be exc
cuted, while the Idea Nazionale saws
Secretary Lansing's resignation proves
Mr.. Wilson'S opinion is not the opin-
ion of the United States"
Washington, Feb. 17.-Emphatic de-
NAL that President Wilson had threat
ened to withdraw the treaty of Yer
sailles and the American French treaty
from the senate if the Adriatic ques-
tion was settled without consulting
the United States was made today at
the While House.
Officials characterized as IAN abso-
lutte falsehood." the statement OF
''Pertinax'' in the Echo de Paris that
the postscript of Mr.. Wilson's memo
randum from which the note was
drawn up contained such threat.
1t was said the presidents message
to the allies was not an ultima tum:
that 1t was in the form of a memo
randum" containing eight or ten lines
that It set forth that the United Safes
would sand on the agreement to which
IL was a partys when the president
was in Paris Under the agreement
the United States was to be one Of