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Show 11 REVIEWS WILMS NOTE Reply to Prince Maximilian's Peace Proposal Firm 1 and Clear. ViVIANI'S OPINION Answer an Effective Test of the Insincerity of German Overtures. ROME, Oct. 10. Tho answer of the American government to tho proposals of the Central powers is what the Entente En-tente In its sole duty looked for, says the semi-official Stephani News agency. The terms used in answering Ihe German note are a clear demonstration demon-stration that President Wilson is aiming aim-ing at a just and lasting peace. "The Italian government Ts alive to its duties and is proceeding in most complete agreement with lis allies. It is sure of interpreting the unanimous desire of the nation." Vivianl Reviews Note. PARIS. Oct. 10. Rene Vivianl. for-I for-I mer pi'emier. writing on President Wilson's reply to Prince Maximilian in the Petit Journal, says: "The note is firm without brutality; lofty but devoid of that Insolence with which Germany has so often accompanied accom-panied hor trampling of the vanquished. vanquish-ed. It is substantial, furnishing irrefutable irre-futable arguments for the reason and conscience of everybody, even in Germany. Ger-many. Some might have preferred that jit be more trenchant, but when blood is flowing from so many gaping wounds no man can lightly answer With a simple denial such proposals." Reply Goes to Root of Things. LONDON, Oct. 10. President Wilson's Wil-son's reply to Prince Maximilian found fullest support in this evening's newspapers. news-papers. The Westminster Gazette says;. "It fulfills the hopes and expectations expecta-tions of the allies in Europe." The Pall Mall Gazettu says the answer ans-wer "will put to an effective test the insincerity of the German overtures." The Standard says tho questions asked by President Wilson "go to the root of matters and indicate very clearly the insincerity, weakness and hollowness of the proposals put forward for-ward by Prince .Maximilian." 1 |