Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-07

may be fighting Russian = ~ rar-
tomorrow. They are fghting tne M Mtav
mans on a different frontler' .rsly
are f,ghting the Ukrainians large.y
over the disputed city Of Lemberg, ana
they may be fighting the
anv day over the disputed city OF ".
ma. Then they are willing to ngn.
with the CzechoISlovaks upon the dis
nuted question Of Teschen. Rou-
mania and Hungary are ready TO rusn
at each others threats. Juso.Slav,h
and italy are ready to rush at ea.a
others Threats. Greece n 'IuISss
are ready ITO rush at each othe,
Looking upon each other in a very nos
tile light. And then even at the pres
ent moment the Firms are busy carry
ing on q war with the Russian BoisMe-
! visits, as are the Esthomanians n tte
Let's. The R~oumanians, besides, LIZ
fighting the Bolshevists on their own
frontiers.
Despite the stern mandates of the
| Paris powers. now at the very zenltn
of their military strength, half a dozen
wars are going on blithesomeiy IN Eu-
rope. This is not a particularly happyy
augury for the reign Of universal
peace.
Sure to Provoke Wars.
The Benat. Fiume, Danzig. thu Saar,
Teschem, Smyrna and half a dozen
; other holly contested points in Europe
are sure to provoke future wars, no
matter which way they are settleu'
To an American it looks as though Eu-
rope had really very little left IN lts
future, as it is almost certain to ourn
itself up. Nationalistic hostilities were
never so violent and SO numerous as
! at present, and, II that were not suin-
cient, class war Is pushing up to COM
plicate matters more seriously
Both. the a horizontal nationalis!lc
winds and the twisting tornado-ilke
communistic winds are blowing perfect
gales yer Europe, and mixing IN
ter-mixing in such a fashion as to
create horrible confusion and 70
achieve every type of destruction. rms
may seem a bit exaggerated and a PIT
rhetorical but any American here viii
bear me out on the assertion. And
this is Europe! This is the territory
we propose to enter and police! For
an acceptance of the league of nations
and the Peace Treaty as they now
stand, will actually put America in just
that position.
Who remade the map of Europe?
1t was done practically by four men,
q LII II -
ian, and an American. The French
man. the Englishman. and the Italian
all had French, English and Italian in
terests to watch out for and protect in
this piece of geographical architecture,
whereas the American had no Ameri-
can interests in the matter though he
did have some individual pet principles
that he wished to see experimental
with. What happened anybody could
foretell. The American was outnum-
bered and outvoted and consequently
French, English, or italian interests
were involved, no objection vas shown
towards permitting the American to
bring his principles into play, but
when they were involved. the princi-
pies were promptly thrown into the
discard. But because Mr.. Wilson did
sit on the Council Of Four. it is ex-
pected that America must assist with
her men. her arms. and her money. to
maintain this new map. Because a
dilettante social philosopher and inter-
privilege of ventilating his special
theories and principles at the sittings
Of the triumvirate, America must be
ready to involve herself in. every
future struggle that takes place owe
the Saar, or over Teschen, or over the
Banat.sor over Silesia, or over .Danzig.
or over Smyrna. or, over Fiume, tor half
q scoresother unpronounceable foreign
names that Americans eve heard
OF three years g andiwhich even now
they they could not positively loeate on the
just to Defend. a Map. '
Americans here find it totalD incom-
prehensible to think that America
would be willing to mortgage herself
not to one but to dozens and possibly
scores of var for the sheer pleasure
of defending a map just drawn up in
the interests of France. England and
Italy. And anyone travelling about on
the ground will unhesitatingly affirm
that the map contains more wars in it
than any document over penned by
man.
AS for the present league Of nations
will that automatically prevent these
wars? Such a thought is laughed at in
Europe. 1t is treated as the %silliest
OF dreams. The map can be defended,
and must be defended. If it Is to be
defended at all, by the four main pow
ers who created ft-France, England,
America and Italy.
Strip the situation Of all purely dec
orattve verbiage, and 1t amounts to
something like this: France and Eng
land and Italy-only it were better to
say France and England, for italy has
not been coddled SO, very much
France and England then, have re-
made the map of Europe in a manner
most satisfactory to their respective
interests. and expect America to assist
them permanently in the bloody and
horrible expensive business of main
tanning that map. Now all Americans
may be quite willing to see france
ana England ,remake the map of Eur
ope IN a manner most satisfactory 10
their interests, but the Americans over
here at least have no desire to see
America serve out ar indefinite SEN
tence az a European policeman to hold
down Franco-Anglican a
Thinking Americans here hope with
a hope that transcends DESCRIPTION thai
America will have the saving sense
to refuse Its signature to the league
OF nations and the present Peace
treaty.
The chief privilege America would
win from the contemplated arrange
ment is that of adding Is or 20 more
Mexicos to its present perplexitv
across the Rio Grande. We should
deAl with these largely according to
The fnstructions-not consciously ~
course. but unconsciously-of the
Franco-Anglican alliance which. ere.
ated the new map and which thereby
created also a certain inevitable policy
which sheer consistency would force
us to follow. ~
How Views Werr Changed.
Stay out Of Europe!"
N is h cry which recurs eter.
nally in the conversation Of the Amer-
leans now engaged In travelling ahont
this continent. 1t would be fmnossihIs
to transmit and to print the emphasis