Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT EASY SAILING SEEN [ARTICLE]

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

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CLEMENCEAU'B BTAND 18 EXPLAINED TO WILBON. Col. House Tolle Result of Conference to the President— British and U. 8. Agree. Paris, Jan. 8. —‘The principal object which 001. E. M. House had in view In going to see President Wilson New Year’s morning was to tell him the result of a conference he had had the evening before with Premier Clemenceau,” said a member of the delegation to the peace congress to a representative of the Petit Journal. “The conference,” continued the American, “was on the subject of the varioua outstandlng problems and also on the subject of the premier’s speech in the chamber of deputies to which he related a conversation he had had with President Wilson. “Colonel House thoroughly went Into, as a whole and In detail, all the problems which the statesmen will be called upon to solve. Colonel House also told President Wilson about the interview he had had with A.”J. Balfour, the British foreign secretary, a few moments after leaving Premier Clemeffteau. The colonel said he had discussed the organization of x the peace Conference with the British delegate." The newspaper quotes the American as adding that Secretary Balfour and Colonel House found themselves In agreement on the subject discussed (presumably covering that touched upon In Colonel House’s talk with Premier Clemenceau), and that their opinion, “as well as that of all the, American representatives, Is Identical and that England and the United States are In agreement. ' \ “In a w’ord, we American delegates are convinced as a result of these conversations that nothing In Premier Clemenceau’s attitude can justify an apprehension of any marbed differences between the great powers of the entente and the United States, and we oelleve that the divergencies now existing will be easily smoothed over.”