The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-27
Wilson Got Jump on Premiers
by Publishing Notes.
Allied Reply Expected to Refuse
Presidents Plan.
STANDS FIRM on ADRIATIC
No Yielding to Entente Pre-
dicted at White House..
Council DOped to Finally Ac-
cept Newest Proposal.

. Washington, Feb. ?7.-The reply of
the British and French premieEs on
the Adriatic question was received to-
day at the state department. 1t was
sent to the White House Immediately.
after being decided.
The state department has Iearnea
that the British government is to pub
fish communications they had after
December 9 with the Italian and Jugo-
Slav governments, which have not
been received or communicated to the
American government. These include
a memorandum by the Italians on
January 6, another note of the Ital-
iaDs on January 10 and a note from
the Jugo -Slavs on January IS The
British also will publish a note from
the Serbian government of January 20.
copy of which has been transmitted
to the state department.
Expect Reply Today.
The allies reply to President Will
sons latest note in the controversy
over the Adriatic settlement was ex-
pected at the state department today.
Many officials here believed the al
lies would acquiesce to Wilson's plan
to have Juge-Slavia and Italy enter
negotiations with the object of fix
ing their frontier in the Fiume region
on a line acceptable to both nations
agree to accept a decision of Britain,
| France and the United States as to
| their common frontier.
Wilson Stands Firm.
This proposal was made in Wilson's
! last note, dispatched last Tuesday.
The notes were given out last night
/ by the state department. In this COM
munciation, the president also reiter-
ated that he stood firmly against the
plan of settlement proposed by the
/ supreme council, which would run
counter to the aspirations of Jugo-
| Slavia and called attention to his
warning of February 10 that If the al
lies persisted in trying to maintain
'the old order" of dividing territories
without regard for the inhabitants
thereof, he would have to take under
serious consideration the withdrawal
of the peace treaty from the senate.
/ This warning was first sounded in
| Wilson's note of February 10 to the
| allies in which he protested against
| the changes that had without his con-
sent been made in the plan for settling
| the Adriatic dispute.
| Holds Up His Trump.
In their reply to it, the allies said
they were reluctant to believe that the
| presiden could consider the changes
made in the settlement plan as suffi-
cient basis for withdrawal of the
United States from cooperation in
EuEOpeetil dlldlISr lIIdI lueH "Oulu view
such withdrawal with Transformation"
and that they hoped the United States
would not wreck the whole machin-
cry" by Withdrawing just because
there was a disagreement over a from
tier in the Adriatic region.
| Wilson answered last Tuesday that
| he would maintain his position with
regard to withdrawal unless the allies
abandoned their Objectionable course.
Some diplomats here considered
| Wilson had played a trump card in the
game of international diplomacy in
making public the notes when he had
the last word" the answer of the al
lies to this last word" not having
reached here yet. The allies. on the
| other hand, are understood to be
holding up publication of the CORE
Snnndenca for the. time heinz