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Show ALLIES AWAIT TEXTOf NOTE Withhold Extensive Review But Rejoice That Wilson Is for Fight to Finish. ATTITUDE IS CLEAR United States Against a Peace With the Hohen-zollerns. Hohen-zollerns. PARIS, Aug. 30. Only an eighty-word eighty-word summary of President Wilson's reply to Pope Benedict has reached Paris this morning and consequently Uie nowspapers withold oxtensive comment. com-ment. The Petit Parisian, however, sayB it is clear, in view of tho length of time which has elapsed since the president received Pope Benedict's proposals pro-posals that his answer was in no way Improvised, particularly as every one is aware that it is his habit to meditate medi-tate at length over every act, "As far as it is possible to judge from the indications received." the newspaper continues, "President Wilson Wil-son does not discuss tho pope's suggestions sug-gestions in themselves. His reply Is a re-edlting of Uio thesis familiar to those who havo read his messages, that as long as Gorman Imperial institutions insti-tutions are not modified, as long as tho democratic spirit has not penetrated beyond the Rhine, as long as absolutism, absolu-tism, based on oligarchy persists, so long nations cannot have confidence In Germany's word. President Wilson thus brings up, just as France and England have done before him. the question of Prussian railitarishi, which is the safeguard of this absolutism and oligarchy. "In rejecting tho Vatican's offer the president Indicates the conditions under un-der which a useful conversation might be taken up. Once more he gives important im-portant force to the German people. Will he be heard?" Awaiting Official Text. LONDON, Aug. 30. "The text of President Wilson's reply to the Pope's peace overtures is noi ooioro us as wo j write but everybody in the United States has already read it by yesterday noon and summaries and comments from American newspapers leaves us in no doubt about its character," says the Manchester Guardian. After declaring de-claring that the position of the president presi-dent is clear and logical the newspaper newspa-per gives several extracts from Premier Prem-ier Lloyd's speech at Glasgow on last June which it says arc much the same in spirit as Mr. Wilson's message to tho pope, continuing: "President Wilson's policy comes very near to the formula 'no peace with tho Hohenzollerns,' but it would bo unfair not to recognize tho very narrow but deep gulf that separates him from that formula. The way in which he prefers to put his policy is that no peace can be made durable without the guarantee of tho German people. Guarantees given by the German Ger-man government holding tho views that It does, cannot be durable. tato to tho German people their form of government bul, as a good American he has faith in the honesty and sincerity sin-cerity of the democracy. He is not concerned to insist that Germany must have forms of government like our own, but only to assert the princlplo that in dealing with an autocracy llko that of Germany we must in self-defense exact more severe guarantees than if wo were dealing, not with a clique whose political vices have been made notorious by the war, but with a free people which, in the mass, are never dishonorable, never cynical, never nev-er treacherous." |