Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-27

 | lstria."
 President Wilson said that, where as the agreement of December g ex cluded every form of Italian sover ! eighty over Plume, he could not l avoid the conclusion" that the agreement of aJnuary 14 opens the way for Italian control or Fumes foreign affairs"
 The new agreement. his note said partitions he Albanian people among three different alien powers while the original agreement preserv ed it's unity in large measure"
 All these provisions, said the pres ident's note, negotiated without the knowledge or approval of the Amer. iean government changed the whole face of the whole Adriatic settlement and in the eyes of this government render it unavoidable and rob it of that measure of justice, which is es- sential if this government is 10 CO operate in maintaining it's ter1ns.
 That the Jugo SIavs might feel
 forced to accept it rather than
 the treaty of London, the presi-
 dent said, would not "alter the
 conviction of this government
 that it cannot give it's assent to
 settlement which both in the
 terms Of it's provisions and the
 methods of its enforcement con
 stitutes a positive denial of the
 principles for which America en-
 tered the war"
 The American government, the presidents note said, feels that it cannot sacrifice the principles for which it entered the war to gratify the improper ambitions of one of its associates. or to purchase a tempora- ry appearance of calm in the Adri- attic at the price of future world conflagration. The Adriatic issue as it now presents itself, raises the fun damental question as to whether the American government can on any terms cooperate with it's European associates in the great work of main taining the peace of the world by re- moving the primary causes of war. If, in a word, the old or der Of things which brought so many evils on the world is still to prevail then the time is not yet come when this government can enter a concert of powers the very existence of which must depend upon new spirit and a new order
 The president wound up his
 note by saying that if the max
 irnun concessions made in the
 memorandum of December
 could not be accepted "the pres
 idcnt desires to say that he
 must take under serious corsid-
 eration the withdrawal of the
 treaty with Germany and the
 agreement between the United
 States and France, the Franco
 American Alliance, which ar. , now before the senate and per
 mittin5 the terms of the Euro
 pean settlement to be independ-
 ently established and enforced by the associated governments.
 Millerand. who had succeeded Clemenceau as premier of France and Lloyd George, replied under date ot February r. They summed up Pres ident Wilson's criticisms of the new agreement under four points: that il ceded Italy the corridor, that the co ridor with Fiume as a free city pav- sd the way for annexation to Italy that the modification of the JugO- olav-Italian frontier was detrimental to JUgo Slavia and that it provided for the partition of Albania The premiers remarked that President Wilson had ignored the great advan- age conferred on Jugo Siavia at the | same time" In their discussions hey had found they said, that no body desired the consumation of the free state of Plume and that the net lpshot of the agreement was to G1Ye ! Tugo Slavia l50,000 more Jugo Slavs | han the original proposal. The pre- i niers argued that the guarantees e he league of nations were suffic'en, o guard against the annexation President Wilson feared and his crit |. cism of Italian domination of the | railway then replied to by holding ,t a commercial ard not a strasetic i 'ailway." and adding that under i President Wilson's proposal it was ! commanded by Italian, guns
 Details of the administration
 Of Albania, they said, were yet to
 be elaborated and the feelings
 and futGre interest Of the Alba
 nldn HCOplc were OG The premiers found difficulty
 in understanding the present atti-
 tudc of the United States" and
 hoped their explanations would
 lead to a reconciliation Of Pres
 ident Wilson's attitude. They
 disclaimed any desire "to force
 a settlement unacceptable to the
 president of the United States
 and added they would not attempt
 to insist on it's acceptance until
 after hearing his viewo.
 In a lengthy argument the pre- niers declared 'the proposal ot De ember 9 has fallen to the ground 'ecause nobody now wants to set up he artificial free state of Plume" ami dded that the United States, having no representative at tie delibera- ions, cannot be in close touch with he changes of opinion and circum tnaces which have taken place ince its plenipotentiaries returned to Smerica." and failing to secure ar