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Show 11 '' & A & A & & 2 PRESIDENT CALLS I PARIS SIAIEU I ENTIRE FALSEHOOD I White House Denies Saying tho Treaty Would be Withdrawn ( From Senate I ! EUROPE STIRRED BY I H ADRIATIC SQUABBLE j British Editors See Crisis In jH Relations With United States j Following Note 1 WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Emphatia '"11 denial that President Wilson had H threatened to withdraw the treaty of j Versailles and the American-French ' ft treaty from the senate if the Adrlatio , ) jqueslion was settled without consult- 'ing the United States, was made today , HJ j at the White House. , j I Officials characterized as "an absc- 1 1 'lute falsehood" the statement of "Per j itinax" in the Echo de Paris that thd t j IH postscript of Mr. Wilson's memoran- I HJ i dum from which the note was drawn ! ' (up contained such a threat. r 1 : It was said that the president's mcs- J IBH 1 sage to the allies -was not an ultinia- Mi (turn; that it was In the form of a "memorandum" containing eight or ten lines and that it set forth that the , IB United States would stand on the ( agreement to which it was a party , when the president was in Paris. Un- ' f der this agreement the United States 1 was to be one of the fhe nations to settle the Adriatic question. t I v Question Discussed ( President Wilson discussed the Adri- ( atic question wilh Secretary Tumulty l H today and he left to 'the discretion of ) Secretary Lansing the question of 1 whether the state department should 1 make a statement of America's posl- (j H ! tion. , i President Wilson in his "memoran- 'i dum" to the allies concerning their J I proposed Adriatic settlement informed J H them that the United States might $ H have to consider withdrawing the y H treaty of Versailles from the senate if the allies went ahead with their plans M H without the consent of tho United H States. . This statement was made officially H here today with the further statement that the American position was out- r lined not in the nature of a threat, but as a statement of a situation created "not by an act of the American gov- p H eminent, but bv an act of the British, r French and Italian premiers," which ' H would place the United States in the ( H position, If it were a party to the i ! treaty of Versailles, of subscribing , through tho pact to rights of sever- : elgnty and other agreements to which N H it was opposed, ' H Note Still Held j H PARIS, Feb. 17. Although the reply H of the supremo allied council to Prcsi- H dent Wilson's note relative to the sel- ! ; tlement of the Adriatic question was j drawn up on Saturday, it has not as yet been sent, according to special dis- patches from London. Efforts are be- ing made in certain quarters to have it toned down, the dispatches say, but all )t( refer to the president's note as a "veto" statements from Washington y, notwithstanding. & H ! In writing on this subject "Pertin- i ax" of the Echo de Pans, who is ex- $ n i cc-ptionall well-informed, says the post- j script of Mr. Wilson's "memorandum" MH from which the nolo was drawn con- H jtained "the most- brutal menace that l-V if his warning was unheeded he would U ) withdraw both the treaty of Versailles .'j; and tho Anglo-Franco-American pact ) from the senate." y: H London Comment Jj H LONDON, Feb. 17. It is impossible $ H to emphasize the-importance and grav , Ity of the results which may follow if the supreme allied council's reply tc fc' President Wilson's note relative to the S.' Adriatic settlement 3ays tho Mail. "Anglo-American relations for a gen fo oration may well depend upon the. Hh terms of the reply," the newspaper JS continues. "This council Is anxious 'jji that justice bo done between Italy and ijj. Jugo-Slavia and i'b equally anxious to tit cultivate closest friendship -with the $ United States which is a cornerstone f, of British foreign relations. We trust i& therefore that moderation and cleai & sighteduess may characterize the reply (ft, ! so that tho very real crisis with which W this country is confronted may be i ! averted." V IH Reiterating its past condemnation ,jL H of tho peace treaty, tho Herald, Labor ffl organ, interprets decisions concerning iiS fl the surrender of former Emperor Wil- Hf liam, extradition of Germaus accused )!?; ! (Continued on Pago 5) I up President Calls Paris Statement Falsehood (Continued from Page 1) of war crimes and the future, status Qt' Constantinople as a realization of the "folly" of tho authors of the treaty. Power of America "The histrionic talents of Premier Lloyd George," the newspaper goes on, "have wrought mare harm than the vindictivenoss of Prcmior Clemenceau or tho boundless egqtispi of the American Amer-ican president, Tho dramatic re-appearance of President "Wilson may be a more gosture, but It may be much more, for America cap enforce its will and can even at this late hour Insist that justice be done. Does tho president presi-dent mean business? If he does there is 1 still a chance for him to retrieve some of his roputatiqn and give Europe a loiorablo peace," Deep anxiety lest the allies sent President Wilson a reply containing further cause for dissension is expressed ex-pressed by the Times," bocausq in tho actual mood they are now in the American Amer-ican pepple might believe a very little thing sufficient to make them withdraw with-draw their countenance from the peace settlement and turn their backs for a season upon the affairs of the old world. 00 - |