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Show ALLIES WILL NOT REPLY TO WILSON FOR SEVERAL DAYS LONDON, Dec. 23. 12:10 a. m. Chief interest here concerning President Wilson's Wil-son's note to tiie belligerent and neutral powers on the possibility of the belligerents belliger-ents making known their requirements concerning peace, now centers upon tlie reception of the document bv the central powers. The first advices received here from Germany regarding the note evince enthusiasm and welcome, as was the reverse re-verse in England. The discussion here overnight was so absorbed in British emotions emo-tions and as to the type of what should be Great Britain's reply that the attitude of tlie central powers commanded little attention. The note continues to be the only subject sub-ject of interest here. Tts only parallel in Anglo-American relations as regards the sensation it created was President Cleveland's Cleve-land's Venezuelan message, and the two documents are coupled as having created a similar impression. ; Will Not Change Policy. All discussion in official quarters emphasises em-phasises tlie point that tlie policy of the entente allies and their procedure toward the peace overtures of the central powers will not be altered by President Wilson's appearance upon the stage as a participant in events. The entente allies will present their reply re-ply to the central powers very soon, and a reply to President Wilson will come later, but probably not within a fortnight. ! The reply to the central powers iiad vir-! vir-! tually been arranged when President Wil-! Wil-! son's note was delivered and will take its predestined course. The answer to President Presi-dent Wilson requires a further exchange of views among the entente, although there is little doubt that the general tenor of both notes will follow the same line, being based on the official speeches of David Llovd George, the British prime minister; Aristide Rriand. the French premier; pre-mier; Baron Sonnlno, the 'Italian foreign minister, and M. Pokrovsky, the Russian foreign minister, as containing a full exposition ex-position of the policy of the entente. Public Men Silent. British public men generally decline to speak for publication concerning the note of President Wilson and those in the government can not do so without violation viola-tion of official custom. Those outside of the government do not desire to embarrass embar-rass it. All the prominent officials will remain in London during the holidays. Work in the government offices by the new administration, administra-tion, which is grappling with the numerous and enormous schemes for the nationalizing national-izing of the kingdom's activities, is under un-der full headway. The morning newspapers again today are giving ample space to President Wilson's Wil-son's note, assiduously seeking to penetrate pene-trate into any possibly concealed motive that may have led the president to what Is considered here a most inopportune movement. , "Something Behind It." According to the Washington correspondents corre-spondents of London newspapers, the opinion in the I'nited States as well as here is that there must be "something behind it," and it is the opinion of many of the newspaper writers that this fact was inadvertently revealed by Secretary of btate Lansing when he referred to the United States as on the verge of being drawn into the war. The suggestion is put forward by some of the writers that what would possibly so involve the United States would be a resumption on a still greater scale of Germany's submarine policy. The passage in the president's note to which umbrage is being taken is the one in which he professes to find tlie differ-: differ-: ences of both belligerent groups Identical. His qualifying phrase in the context, "as stated in general terms to their own people peo-ple and to the world," for the most part is ignored, except in the columns of the newspapers of pacifist tendencies. It can not be said that today's press opinions opin-ions show less opposition to the presi- dent's antion than those of yesterday. 1 Ring's Speech the Answer. i The Morning Post says the king's 'speech In parliament yesterday was per-: per-: haps the best answer that could be made to "the president's amiable proposal." j Alluding to tlie president's belief that the I nations are ready to welcome a league of peace, the newspaper says: "With OLir experience with these leagues of peace behind us, we should think twice and ihric beiore throwing over trusted allies in order to put our fortunes to the vote of Guatemala. Haiti. Siam anfl other nations, large and sm:ill. which would compose such a federation." The Daily News, one of the most favorable fa-vorable of the newspapers to President Wilson, says editorially that tiie reception recep-tion of his note was respectful, but mir coppromUius. "What had to be said has been said, for the most part, in language which America will neither misunderstand nor resent," it adds. The Daily News thinks the result 01 the bewilderment over the note has -been to throw into greater relief Secretary ot State Lansing's statement about the verge of war, and says Mr. Lansing's subsequent subse-quent retraction rather emphasizes than diminishes its significance. Could Invoke Treaty. "The fact that Mr. Lansing should have used such words at all," says the Daily News, "suggests that America's relations with one of the belligerents either is or threatens to be much more strained than has been suspected here. One ambiguity may be cleared away at once. Whatever America's apprehensions may be, sne cannot can-not be on the verge of war with the entente en-tente powers. L'nder treaties with the United .States signed in 131 4 by Great Britain and Prance, but not by Germany, America could not, at the worst, be nearer than twelve months distant from war with England or France." The newspaper thinks the i difficulty of accounting satisfactorily, for 'the issue of the note compels a respectful view. Speculating on whether the president has a deeper cause for anxiety regarding American relations with Germany than has yet appeared, the newspaper mentions men-tions Germany's submarine activity and the Belgian deportations as possible causes for that anxiety. In short, the Daily News regards this as the most explicable reason for the president's desire to bring the war to a speedy end. |