Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-04

1t is not difficult to find GROUNDS
for criticism of the diplomacy OF the
United States in Mexico, whether I'M
der the present administration or tnat
of President Taft. That we may all
frankly admit.
We Americans have doubtless made
errors both of omission and OF com
mission That we have done our
honest best there is little reason to
question: that our best might con-
ceivably be better, we unhapplly
cannot deny. H..
But when our European critics
and there are so very many OF them
saw with "a high disdain: Thls Is
merely a typical example OF Amerlcas
bungling diplomacy; if European
diplomats had been given the MeXl-
can problem to solve they would nave
done vastly better" any american
| may properly cry. Enough
And. if the critic still persists, let
| that American just whisper softly,
How about European diplomacy ana
| the Balkans. What price, Albania
For the Balkans are Europe's Mex
| ico and if we have maze sorry
mess in solving our own proplenl'
your proud European diplomats nave
| made a far sorrier one In sowing
| theirs. and they can plead not even
/
effect real good, that has in Senerai
inspired our efforts.
| To show what a bungie the Euro
pean powers have made 1t rs not
necessary to go back to the 10s and
SOS to the first rebellion of the Bal
| kan provinces, to the Berlin treaty
and the subsequent Turkish evasions
and euuivocations. 1t is not even
necessary to repeat the long story OF
| L. ia NIasn6nnIl
Albania and Europe IS feeble vacilla-
tons.
Let us start right down to date
with the war of the Allies against
Turkey in the fall of 1912. Europe
tried, or professed to try, to stop that
war by taking a hand" to enforce
the execution of reforms, but she ae-
! complished nothing.
Europe then tried to guarantee the
existing boundaries, but the armies
of the Allies had erased those bound
aries for all time European diplo-
mats during an armiStice tried AT
!, London to make terms of peace, but
their weeks of conference were futile
: 1t was only by taking up arms them
: selves that the powers induced the
Allies to lay theirs down.
What was the next stroke o.
= genius? The Allies were set fightins
i suit that Turkey won back some ter
H ritory, while Bulgaria, Servia anc
H Greece all lost, and in the middle o
H the Balkan Peninsula was erected :
7 new State, Albania, shutting Of
= Servia from the coast.
This was the masterpiece In tn
arbitrarily determined boundarie
were Serbs. Albanians and Greeks
Mohamm edans and Catholics and or
thodox Christians all subdivided int
many hostile tribes land bands, wit
cherish a feud even more fondly thai
the one-time vendettists of Corsica
And whom did all-wise Europe Sc
Iect to be ruler of this new nation
| Not Essad Pasha, former Turkisl
governor and brave defender of Sou
tart against the Montenegrins. No
any native Greek or Albanian, but
German princeling, William A. Wied
| nephew of Carmen Sylvia, who's
only fitness for the post appeared +
be his reputed estimable characte
and personality.
At Durazo, on the seacoast an
handy to the friendly warships of tn
supporting powers, whose Interna
tional Commission were the true rul
ers. this "Lohengrin" began his ruiz
Hardly was he established whe
trouble broke out. The southern sec
ton of Albania was hewed out {
Epirus, and it's Inhabitants by rae
faith and all traditions are allied
Greece. There autonomy was pre-
William had formally accepted II