OCR Text |
Show WILSON CAREFUL ! Assures Administration Officials League Will j Not Be Jeopardized. ITALIAN DEADLOCK News Awaited With Anxiety in United States. WASHINGTON. April 22. Administration Adminis-tration officials were advised in a confidential con-fidential cablegram from Paris todiy that in the consideration of problems , confronting the peace conlerence, such as Italy's Adriatic claims and tbe question of an alliance to protect France from future nggrcf-tdon, Pre. i dent Wilson would take no action which might In the slightest degree jeopardize the league of nations or i conflict with its fundamental principles. prin-ciples. I The message was a reply to a cablegram cable-gram of inquiry regarding the president's presi-dent's attitude toward a secret alli-I alli-I ance which, according to certain Paris I newspapers, contemplated a special defensive pact 'o be entered into by I France. Great Britain and the United ; States. The outcome of the apparent dead- lor-lr iivnr Itu)v' AHviati.. rloino ic awaited in official quarters here with evident anxiety. The situation as pictured pic-tured in prees dispatches is regarded as serious and there was no message from Paris yesterday or todav similar to those of last week reporting gratifying grati-fying progress at the peace table. I The president and the two premiers j went again into the Japanese questions ques-tions presented by Baron Makino and ! Viscount Cblnda, which were taken up when the deadlock over the Adrl- I atic question was reached yesterday. The complete text of the revised covenant of the league of nations waj received at the state department today to-day by cable from Paris Acting Secretary Sec-retary Polk has asked the president for directions as to publication of the document. No instructions have been received, but it has been assumed here that the covenant would be made public upon the delivery of the peace treaty ' to the Germans and in accordance with the plnn announced at Paris for giving publicity to the treaty. |