The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-20
BY JUSTIN McGRiTH

SS "tSIiN McGItIH
w. " ASH ihston, Feb. l9.-President
!" l''on $ reply To the allied supreme
LINEN note on the adriatic Question:
~, written has not been sent
inc delay Is In the state department
rms morning at $40 the nraaiaert
sent Tor his stenographer and ba.,r
WORK on the note. He comniefed III.
T ,1Sh IN Tess than an hour and a harY
ne presidents manuscript reached
the state department. before moo, f,t
Hciai announcement late rhtu 49,.
noon that the note would nor on -
,tsht was taken TO mean therefore
VIZ presidents draft was-a rough
! ut4it "hlch ne desired diploma ttcaTIy
polished before transmission ~ ~
l'"fk nnIShes the polishing this even.
ing the note may 60 ont tor,orra.
me fact that it took tho nres,aa.,.
+" snort a time 70 compose his re,,y,-
was generally considered 10 hn st,-ri
~ ant ~ tf1e character of the renIy
II Is believed the reply will he
Feahrmation Of the American M
siuon as stated a Paris. Decsmher
ana reiterated in the note sent
February ! q
mere was no ambiguity about fhe
american position as stated by th,.
government on December ana ~
the February 10 note
Both made perfectly clear I, 10
attIed powers that the United state.
had reached the limit Of concession IL
was willing to make in the adria,ic
settlements, The United States 81.
ways had been willing to go as far a.
n"SSi pie without infringing Jugo-
SioVla essential rights TO concilnte
Italy But II was found that as soon
a~ Italy was granted one concrssian
OF tins experience Of the Amerioa
peace commission in dealing win
ltaI} That the president felt comncfled
L" write ms thus far and no furtherss
note in January. y q
THE NEW AGREEMENT
Despite thar note the EranA
hfHiSh and Italian premiers enternd
ihto new arrangement and wifho,rf
consulting the United States sent ths
new proposed settlement to .Iuro-
>'aVla as an ultimatum which nus,
ne accepted under penalty of having
IN" pact OF London put in force.
Inc pact Of London was the arra..
I heht under which Italy entered irtc
me war and made dispositions a.
adrlatiC territory which pras1a~rs
Wilson considered iniauitous and.in
""lehslpte II was when he rot
Wedge Of this action of the aIIies
that the president, even before Their
'o(e mad arrived in Washington. sent
ms protest which created a sensat ior
in Europe 'Vi
Having stated his position clearly
q no 0ecISlNeIN -in-tha- latest ..x,t~.
"hi'h ne concluded with the threat Ia
seriously consider the wfthdr,waics<
America from the treaty OF Versai,tes
ana the treaty between the Initial
states and France, it is not Considered
al all likely that the president in the
note prepared by him today will back
down,
ne TACT that the note prepared
TO-DAY dld not occupy the president for
more than an hour and a half IL H.
neVed To indicate that the allies note
dld not contain any new arguments
winch made any appeal to the presf-
aeh1 Although the allied note con-
tanned approximately four thousand
words IT is understood to have cover
ed only ground in which the president
was thoroughly FAMILIAR
NOT A POSTSCRIPT
1t was definitely learned today thar
the threat to give serious considera-
tion 10 the Withdrawal of America
, from the treaty between the Cnrted
s@tsa 81 81 ili ~ 40 s
saw fit 10 persist in the new aurtsfir
arrangement which they had made
without consulting the United Staias.
was not postscript to the note ~
stated IN the cables today from
Paris, The assertion that ii was 4
postscript created great temporary In
terest here because of the suspicion
That the postscript might have bean
added by Secretary Lansing and rpss
sihlS have been real cause OF fha
brt ak between him aud the presidesets
But this superstition was disposes1 "
when it was authorativeiy announrnx
mat the threat TO have America WINE
draw from the two treaties wa. -
concluding paragraph of the uxte x116k
that there was no postscript "A
formation makes. IL pawfoc&1 = nv n