| Show PRESIDENT IS INFLUENCED IN REPLY TO HUN 4 Opinion l of Df Senators Is Emr Em Em- r b bodied in iii Wilsons Wilson's Note to to Germany t rAJ r- r AJ i nr 1 11 1 i e ln ton o Oct Oat t 19 Thit That Pr President Woodrow Wilson was swayed In his at attitude at- at o as e expressed In n his last ast noto In reply 2 to German peace propos proposals and dissuaded c d from leaving ln nn any openings for for- further hr her note writing wrItIngS Is tho thc ox- ox pr r. r d d belief o of man many senators and nd representative e who 15 seo 0 the tho chief ex executive ox- ox agreeable to their pronounced utterances nc 9 of ot distrust regarding the Hun lIun proposals The ho prevailing pre opinion among sena senators senators sen sen- a Is that tho the German governments government's ts t's reply to President Wilsons Wilson's note of or in inquiry In- In utterly Called failed to afford a Ly tangible tangible tangi tangi- l- l ble basis n a p peace ace move more Many Inn declared de do- glared d It their belief bellet the Germans had worded tho noto note so aS to gain gainan an sit Armistice through which to back out of or tho war In tho most ad advantageous advantageous van van- W way possible ninny X ot t Sincere That That tho thc German government o was rot not sincere In Its assumption of ac acceptance acceptance acceptance ac- ac of or the Presidents President's fourteen p proposals and na their amplification b by him In subsequent public utterances cs was as tho the view vol voiced oed b by Democrats and Republicans alike The They expressed the hope and expectation that tho the President President dent would find It Impossible to do anything but reject tho the German overtures over over- i tures as ns Insufficient and tor tory Many fany senators see eee In President ent Wll- Wll Ion ono onn 5 compliance with their views as expressed ex In his his' la latest note evidence that h he has been topped stopped from further noto note writing dUng Such administration n newspapers as the J New ew York Times freely treely quoted th the opinions of or tho senators senators sen sen- and It Is believed that tho the published published pub pub- i statements att played a prominent part In formulating tho the Presidents President's re reply ropI ro- ro pI ply to Germany The point was yas Emphasized by senators eon sen that the German Germon noto note offered only one direct ct popo proposal al as a means toward an armistice and that was the withdrawal from occupied territory But even en In th this proposal they argue th the note spoke only onh In the most I general gen gen- n- n oral eral terms Senators dc declared that nothing short of tr unconditional surrender der would satisfy satisfy- the alliod governments govern so ments ment and the they failed to read that In C I o Some Pence Peace Demand Withdrawal from all nU conquered ter- ter tory ton Is not sufficient tho tha senators senator ar ar- ar cued gued Germany German according to their viewpoint ought to b be obliged ed as one of or the th preliminary steps toward to the granting of ot an armistice to guarantee ample In indemnity for tor th the damage rought by her armies Many ee- ee senators een- een insisted that Germany Gorman should alio abo a. a agree acree ree to the the- allied for tor all damage done dono no by h bit r A Additional demands demand made mado were the tho Return return of or Lorraine Alsace to France the th th r relinquishment by G Germany of ot h her r colonies won by hy the allies to the peoples peo poo- pIes ples who inhabit th them m with lith inherent nt I government by the colonists the expulsion ex ox- of ot Turkey from Europe recognition of ot tho the and nd Czecho Czecho- reco-I reco as independent nations the autonomy autonomy au au- au of at Poland and restoration to Ital of or her lost bet provinces pro Many lan eon i-cn- I ator maintained that al nil these requirements require require- ments menti must bo be exacted as unconditional al bases of or peace and In n advance vanco of ot Sony any armistice Peace Debate Dnn Dangerous The opinion was expressed d b by pen pen- senators sen een- atou that for President Wilson to agree to enter into any any- peace negotiations tione through a n mixed commission 1 the German government O on the tho thol I basis bails of ot the foreign secretary's would mean surrender to Germany of or the advantage the allies now havo have In inthe the thear war ar Germany the they said eald knows knovs I she he must lose tho the fight and to dicker over ever peace now would woul enable her to enter Into a debate as to what hAt disposition disposition tion was to b be ma made e of ot points which which vr Were r tho the war Tar to go on would bo be unalterably unalterably unalterably un un- un- un alterably decided against tho the German autocracy As to President Wile Wilsons Wilson's ons on's Inquiry of or orthe th the the German aerman chancellor as ns to whether ho he represented the government Go that ha had conducted tho the war tho the senators reed agreed that Secretary Salt Solf had failed to indicate that there hn had been any change in Germanys Germany's governmental o I m makeup i cup Germanys Germany's affairs the senators senators sena sena- I tors said sald- aro are obviously In tho the control oC of the same ruling war el element ment On this point alone thc they argued tho the German overtures 0 could bo be waved aside ae by the President as falling failing to show the evidence o of or sincerity that ho had sought In his note of or Inquiry |
