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Show Coat of Whitewash. "The studied Impartiality of the American Amer-ican note supplies Germ a ny wi t h a coa t of v hbewash of which she v.as bad'y In need. Germany proposes an lm-! me-iiatc conference of bellige ren t , which a npa r? to her ; o be the most prom - ! is in i; wa y of promo; i tig a f issu re m t 't entente. The allies huve only one pos-Sl'.-'U? a ! t i titile I o this: na tv.ely, t hey 1 11 hold no disei;ssion w;id an unpunished cH m uia I or w 1 '. i 1 .1 power whosn mo1--' solemn riML'r'r-fn's are mere f r;' ps of paper. If" Mr. Wilson's r.-ai ob.ie-t In elicit a pia in statement of I he aims aud terms of i-.-tii ldcs, Lerlin's ;inswer ' lr did net rC'inre ;i rote 10 procure a pa in s: i : r men i of I ' ie ;i ) rr. p":i : ''c 1 ; -vni:i -l s---e the ipv wa t oti iiue:s viih .immary d ism ':-, 1. The Ui- conceived note has been frustrated and the mosi flUnififcJ course now would be its franl: withdvewl." The following is from the Westminster G;i-,etlc: "For two or three flay a the pretence was kept up that the American proposals were an unfriendly attempt to snatch 'the pi !ze of victory' from the German people, but this clearly is not at all the view of the German government, which sees in it a welcome opportunity to improve im-prove t lie occasion and at the same time push forward its own proposal for stopping stop-ping the war. President Wilson is not to nhime for this, and we phnnlrt he very unwise in rush to the conclusion that he evpecled this answer and was to that extent playing into the hands of the Germans." Gives Germany an Excuse. v'onipient inc "n a Washington i : f-'pr1. th savins President Wilson wa inspired by tlie detre to give the belliperents. especially espe-cially Ci'iinanv, a better excuse for de-n de-n n i i-i lt their conceptions of a possible settle set-tle men t and the German reply that an Immediate exchange of views was the mopt a n propria t e road in 01 dcr to rep. ch the d--Mied result, the Westminster Ga-z?t Ga-z?t t e s;i ys : "The German government can src"-lv src"-lv be to naive as to suppose the allied eoernnienls would suspend hostilities or enter into a i-onfern-e wi; h an ncniv vi, tor wnlio'jt knowing, even thruuRh tii" usual indi 1'" -t i-ha niils. hd t lie was Tfc.n t o propose. Tt Gcr-ni;iny Gcr-ni;iny v. !;o proposed tin negot iat inns, tt ih i"-ern-a:i'- who considers herself to be in t lie sup'M'mr posit inn. Ii is GTma n who w.-i i: ts to stop t lie wa r. Tiiere'ore 'it must i e for her, as the in it ia tor of i the proceedings, to define in German terms w-.c bas's nn which she proposes to licentiate. "Tlitrc apivirpntly are many minncler-?' minncler-?' h nd in cs, t h here and in , meri'-a . abnia President Wilpnn's intenHnnn, and t h,i t mn V'cs it the it ore jm porta nt tint -e s'onki ;i ia ke nijr ov n pnsi tion pia in-bop-, the' efore. t iia I our reply tn t he A mrii : n note will oe a fa ref nl a nd well - reasoned si a I em e, it of ;ie pop; i inn we i i id e r s t a n d it, wrul n n t. a m e r 'nasty fiim"sa! of the American note as if T ere 1 il -v ire. "The 1'P'ted Slnies i deep;v rnn--e'-nel in Kurnpeau PtriiCLr''. and il ; p ;i ivt i't-.-,-- cno-i re ;to)ij to (jr;'rp pc p t. but it shuuM not be dif'ult to make her see that a mere patched-up truce would be as little to her interests as to ours." The Kvening Star says: "Germany has replied in hot haste. She is working the Wilson note for all it is worth. She is trying to make peace by wireless. The contrast between her panting pant-ing precipitancy and the allies' leisure languor Is great. There is grave, urgent need for cool wisdom and hold leadership in the circumstances. We note with alarm the growing disposition in certain quarters to make had blood be - i twecn the British and American people, i That Is playing the German came, audi must be stopped dead. There must be i no mercy for lima t u-s who a re ready to poison Anqlo-American relationship. I ,et us make a stand ::cainst the colossal in-i eptitude in misrepres-cnt inc and inistm-i dcrstanding Prn-udcnt Wilson's nuic." i |