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Show FRENCH PAPERS HIGHLY PRAISE THE PRESIDENT PARIS, May 10, J 1:2.1 a. m. Great inoriilriftiir.ii is kiv.iii by tlin newspapersof ParUs this tnornlriK to the latest American note to Germany, replying to the German communication respecting subrnrtrtne war-fan;. war-fan;. The, Aniciican note is spoUcn of aa a masterpiece of diplomacy. "With- eoncisenesH, firmness and clarity, which is in slroiiK contrast to Iho bathos with which Willi. InistrEiMso announced its b;i Mown, President "Wilson maintains the position he took up in the preceding note," writ en Stop hen I'ichon, former foreign minister, in tin) IVlit Journal. Th Mai in seivm the American note plji.'cs Germany in a cruel dilemma, her ! y.uueslloiiN luivin-- been rejected hut her nrumln.'H renintiTcd ho I hat they will liavo to Iuj l;epi. it cMutiiuu's: '"It mM he, clear lo all nontrale that ('ipnnau' litis fullered an unprecedented diplomatic (h-t'eut. 1 t will W- Interesting to sec how the German .nowrnmeiu explains ex-plains lo the public that it Iium consented radically to mudify toihmarl no warfare without obialninc I lie slightest lOmpciiKa-tion lOmpciiKa-tion in i'ciiam;e." ' The IVlit I'.iriMcn says: "If Kin pen ir Willhun desired to catch President Wilson' in a trap, the emperor x eau:;ht in his own lolls. lie has met Lis master. There remains nothing for him in do except either to accept the Aimrhan note, at the risk of lousing tiie fuiy of i he ilrriii.m novernmental parties, v. to tUe npnn himself the Initiative in in hminy, ai'uul a rupture which would entail en-tail serious (.-in is'.m ui rK-c-s for- Uermany." |