Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-10-31
Some Bricks Which Will Go
Into Building Peace Foundation
BY Frank H. simonds.
(cooyrioht. 1918, New York Tribune.)

By Frank H. Simonds.
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune.)
The movement of events a carried
all peace talk past the points set out
by President Wilson in his speech last
January-known as the IA principles
OF q permanent peace. He has himself
since hat memorable speech furnished
addenda which can not be overlooked
The generals of the allies have fur
nished other conditions. All the allied
governments with armies in the field
have recognized the claim of the
Czecho- Slovaks to liberty. This means
the disintegration of Austria. Bulgaria
has since surrendered Internationally
and retired from the field. This eliml-
mates practically the whole Balkan
question as it was conceived at the mo-
ment OF the presidents January ad-
dress. There was before that and con-
t:nueS to be, general agreement among
the allies that the future Turkey shall
be limited to what is known as the
present Anatolian provinces. Only the
details of the status of Constantinople.
the D~ardenelles. sea of Marmora and
the Bosphorus are left to settle. The
main thin. to be considered now Is
the Polish matter-a Polish state and
it's boundaries.
To set up a Jugo-Slovak state in the
present confines Of Austria, probably
means the utter destruction of Aus
tria. If Germany is prepared to ac-
cept this, she accepts 1t with the
mental reservation that the German
and probably the Hungarian portions
of the present Austrian empire will
eventually fall completely unde her
sway.
In the presidents contemplation of a
government of the Poles. he naturally
expected to make a nation strong
enough to maintain itself. This means
what has been known as Russian Po-
land will De added to the new state
n a considerable section taken out
OF Germany, at least out Of the Silesia
which Frederick the Great wrested
from Maria Theresa. Continuing the
discussion OF this matter. Mr.. Sim
onds adds:
President Wilson'S response to the
German notes has cleared the atmos-
phere and placed s%quarely upon the
shoulders Of the German government
the responsibility for the success or
the failure of its effort to get an arnis-
ttce. With the preliminary conditions
outlined in Mr.. Wilson'S two notes. the
German has to comply If he desires to
continue his application for an armis-
tice. If he continues his application.
then 1t will be the duty of the presi-
dent to transmit any further applica-
ton to n governments of our allies,
and. in concert with them, frame a re-
spouse. What W. shall next have, in
case the German is ready to surrender,
is a formal request made OF the pres;-
dent or made Of the allied governments.
collectively. for an armistice..
AS to turkey, we in America have no
lega! right to enter into any discussion
OF the Turkish and Bulgar questions,
because we have not Made war upon
either. But the solutions to be expected
to see Bulgaria get back her Thracian
province. north OF the Enos- Midia line,
won In the first Balkan war and lost
IN the second; W may expect to see
e old Dobrudja province. also lost
IN 1913. but unnecessary to the safety
oa a Rumania now become a really
considerable state. The international
ization of the Dardanelles and Of Com
stantinople. which is a part Of Mr..
WILSON'S program. is equally q part of
the program Of the allies. The re-
striction Of the Turk to the Osmanli-
peopled regions of Anatolia exists in
both programs. as does a liberated and
protected Armenia. AS to Mesopo-
tamta and Syria, the French and Brit
ish who have liberated them are likely
to stay. with the full approval of the
inhabitants Palestine may be an In
ternationalized state, and the balance
OF the Arabian districts have already
achieved independence under their
OWL sovereign.
Polish Question Difficult.
There is left the question Of Poland.
n 1T Is the most difficult Of all. IL
you give to the new Poland. which
will Individually include Russian and
Austrian Polish districts and thus he
come a state OF upward of $4,000, 900
people,, those German, or rather Pr,ls-
sian. circles in which the Poles are
clearly a majority, you will denrive
Germany of much Of Silesia. ali Of
Posen n a considerable fraction of
both East n West Prussia. East
Prussia will be isolated from the main
German mass by a strip Of territory
extending down the west bank of the
Vtstula to the Baltic and Danzie a
hostile frontier will be carried almost
to Frankfort -on- oder, and this with
IN striking distance OF Berlin itself.
But by contrast. with Posen and
IStlesta. SO far as 1t is Polish. the new
Poland will be incomplete. and there
will survive a Polish question. And
without Danxfg and a window on the
sea- the new Poland will be economi-
caliy and industrially at the mercy of
Germany, exactly as Serbia was at the
mercy OF .Austria-Hungary in the evil
times before h present war. And the
S0r0tan grievance was one OF the
causes OF the world CONFEDERATION.
FINALLY. nowhere in Europe has the
persecution Of q subject race been more
brutal than in the Polish circles Of
PrnsetA. TO turn the >Prussian PolS6