Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-18
WILSON'S NOTE ON | ADR|ATIC WAS NOT l MEANT AS THREAT
kerely State U. s. Might Have to Withdraw Treaty
pOSTSCRIPT' TO NOTE ALSO IS EXPLAINED
fhreion Press Thinks Washington is Trying to Put Blame on U. s. Instead of Where it
 Belongs

Instead Of where It
 Belongs
 Washington, Feb. 17.-The allied
 npreme council has been informed
 President Wilson, it was disclos-
 today, and if the proposed Adria-
 settlement to which the Ameri-
 n government is not party, is put
 Ito force the United States might
 bve to consider withdrawing the
 featy of Versailles from senate
 bnsideration.>
 The presidents communication
 las not in the nature of threat
 the common sense of the term,
 ut was merely statement of a
 tuation in which the United States
 light find herself if asked to sub
 ribe to agreements in which it had
 hand in the making and to which
 was opposed.
 The explanation was made in
 fficial quarters that the league of
 ations was to be the instrument for hforcing various arguments as to
 boundaries and the like and that if he United States became a party to he treaty of Versailles it thus would Ie subscribing to the enforcement f agreements to which it had not iven either it's approval or consent. It was explained further that the 4nglo- -French-American treaty and he treaty of Versailles were con- idered inseparable insofar as this 1uestion was concerned and that if
 situation arose where the presi- ent would have to consider with rawing the latter he also would lave to consider withdrawing the Eormer.
 An early announcement at the White House characterized as an absolute falsehood" the statement ' "Pertinax" in the Echo de Paris
 At President Wilson's communica- Fion contained postscript bearing threat to withdraw the treaty from The senate. This was recognized as (rroneous as soon as it came to the Ettention of other officials. Obvious W it did not come from President Wilson himself, and it was later Explained that those who made the tatement had spoken without full bd complete information.
 E History of Pact.
 At first too, the presidents com was referred as "memo- Fandum" and was described as con- Faining only eight or 10 lines. It was disclosed however that the communication finally sent was in the form of note and that It covered two or three pages. This note, it was explained, was prepared rom memorandum to Secretary Lansing which the president dictated md sent to the state department.
 Whether the supreme councils reply to the presidents note will be made public, has not yet been decid- ed. The presidents communication has been withheld. some officials Eaking the view that they did not wish to add a possible complication 10 the situation by giving publicity 10 the exchanges in advance of an agreement between the principals.
 There is no disposition, however to withhold information regarding the various steps that have been talk an since the original agreement in Paris by the supreme council with setting Secretary Polk of the state apartment present, down to the dispatch of the presidents note. The original agreement arrived at in Paris December g, was handed to the italian foreign minister December l2, and was described bv former Premier Clemenceau in the French chamber of deputies as joint agree ment between Great Britain, France and the United States.
 Early in January after the Ameri- san peace delegates had returned home and the United State was rep resented at the meeting by Ambassa- lor Wallace in the capacity of an Observer there was meeting of the supreme council in which Premier Lloyd George stated that some had been made in the original plan of December g. and Jan uary IA. it was stated that Premier Nltti of Italy had accepted the re- vised plan.
 The agreement was communicated 10 Jugo-Slavia in the form of an ulti- natum. and while Ambassador Wall lace communicated the fact to the state department, the American was not consulted about the changes.
 The United States at the January meeting notified the supreme coun- ell that it's position regarding the matter was unchanged.
 Meantime, the Jugo-Slavs protested
 elnst the settlement and the time 4acwed them for final reply was on February 10, the presi- aent's note was dispatched and in ls the entente premiers were told mat the United States would have lo consider what it's position would pc IT the premiers proceeded to set willing it.
 m official quarters, it was su- Eested today that the. foreign press " 2 describing the presidents note as threat was endeavoring to place the Dlsme for the situation which has arisen Qn America instead of on tho supreme council "where it belongs.
 CONFIRMATION GRANTED. e j, Washington. Feb. IT,. In it's frs,