The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-03
LEAGUE OF WORLD
POWERS is DEAD.
SIMONDS ASSERTS
Nelps Scimttdr'S Diplomatic Expert Reveals
NOSt Craze Crisis as Allies Make
Desperate Effort for Peace
BY FRANK H. SIMoNDS.
Especial Cable to The News Scimitar.)

PARIS, April 3-The league of nations is dead.
All chance of real settlement of European problems is
at an end desperate effort is being made to get to-
gether a.patchedup peace within the next ten days
which shall at least put an end to unrest and economic
paralysis in the world
The collapse of the league of nations is the result
Of the panic following the arrival of the Boshevsts at
Budapest. Having had no policy toward Bolshevism
the Paris conference suddenly awoke from it's dreams
Of reorderng the world to realization of the fact
that two thirds Of the population Of Europe would not
in any subscribe to the league of nations and that
the league Of nations if it were to be anything would
have to be an alliance against Bolshevisr- an alliance
which called for active operations,
In this situation the Paris conference, which for
three months had concentrated most Of it's attention
upon the draft of the covenant of the league of naon
was suddenly informed that Germany would sign no
treaty which recognized the right Of the small nation
ates to existence at her expense and that unless the
allies prepared to enforce their demands upon German
and Bolshevist alike the doctrines themselves had no
value and no weight.
conference Paris
just decision Danzg outlet the
BY choice between the
Germans the Boshes to Polish hopes
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pest by recognizng the rights Of the Rumnans Y now condemned
Italy an nnam upon TIE that
ess were % ns rom Ss sn @
hs result s1s Sns Hess Poles and he
Southern sa sacrificed Dsnzg will remain German Fume
There remains another sacrifice to be made the
produce that the Germans would sign it was not simply
the allies reducing claims of France
eparaon and when the reduction is
France return million and half of dead and her ruined north
sEn industrial regions @ will have @ neither h dg @ 5 NEW
result patent Germany sign the treaty Of peace which her
but the burden Of war viii be thrown upon France and the
raised to independsnes By the board
principle right the ] small @ 's,s to ] s% that
smaller smaller state defend itself
nations becomes the German gospel Of force .,
trying The S'SS the
abandoning the smaller peoples Eastern
the and 6a 1T 5
tees as was to
aS Of @ hts TeeuTop going
s % Without S other than
inevitably seek place Germans Mteleuopa As for Rumania
Boshv
ENGLAND United Italy
England with the German fleet her possession
@ h the @ IN s hsr
IS satisfied The represented by wilson has no
other than to the league sa
Italy signing wilson's
less or being Immediately deserted by other allies
sacrifices that
and patriotic France and lead to rejection
abhorren all Frenhmen
the treaty signed not Fancehe French poplew neither
this tt time % place IT.
promises made
tory the Paris conference
which without value and representing nothing
subscribe
the principles there formulated instead settlement which would
Poland land and re % which together with
let the open sea and doomed advance fall German e1DIo
people in defense their existence
liberties of the world feeling
against its old enemies So far
dreams that millions of people
settlement in accordance with justice AND of guaranteed
word-wil
And sacrifices will
he
thing happen? who abandoned
betrayed
profit result the collapse
manship of the Western world?
Copyright 1919, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndcae)