The sun., 1919-10-14
PEACE BRINGS
NEW CRISIS AS
LEAGUE WAITS
Supreme Council Gravely
Concerned Over Procedure
to Be'Taken.
ALL HANGS ON COVENANT
ENJOYS Now See Error in
Making Society of Nations
Part of Pact.
ALL HANGS ON COVENANT
BY LAURENCE HILLS.
Star Correspondent Of THE Sun.

Sydr Correspondent OF IHh Dun.
Copvrioht. 1919. all rights reserved.
PARIS, Oct. 13-With the peace
treaty about 10 become effective in
the next few days through the deposit
in the French Foreign Office Of the
necessary three ratif1cations, those OF
France, Great Britain and Italy, the
outstanding feature in all diplomatic
circles here is the concern manifested
regarding the League of Nations, upon
which the whole structure rests.
The failure of the Supreme Council
to settle vital problems, like those Of
the Baltic, Fiume and Hungary, al
though having virtually the same
powers as those given to the league,
coupled with the illness and threat
ened incapacity Of its chief promoter,
President Wilson, is causing undis-
guised alarm in all circles.
The situation, as every thoughtful
person here now admits. is the direct
consequence OF tying up the treaty to
the league before proper time had been
given to work il out In a manner sat-
| isfactory to all concerned, and par
ticularly to the United States Senate.
serious Problem Confronts.
The situation arising with the
treaty becoming effective this week
demands either that the league shall
function actively and Immediately in
all the beautiful conception of that
concert Of free peoples with which
president Wilson has surrounded It, OF
there must be an agreement made to
continue the Supreme Council or to
resort to older diplomatic practices
inclu ding the formation of alliances
to bring Europe and Asia to a state
i of equilibrium which IL lacking ut
terly at present.
The chief factors OF concern. as en-
phasized in conference circles. are:
FIRST, the extent Of the amend
ments or reservations OF the Ameri-
can Senate affecting the participa-
ton OF the United States In the
League of Nations, regarding which
European statesmen see now they
were misled considerably by Presi-
dent Wilson in accepting him as hold
ing a mandate from the American
people.
SECOND. the illness Of tAp Presi-
dent himself. which. despite reas-
suring bulletins. Is causing great
alarm here because. lacking faith
Il themselves, most statesmen have
looked to tho President to demon
strate. once tho treaty becomes effec-
, tive, the practicability Of the league
a .-.lAS hA
wisdom of insisting that It should be
: the foundation OF all peace treaties.
No one lacking the prestige and
power of President Wilson could take
al his place. according to most opinion
here.
q TH1RD-The continuation of in
8 trtgue and political jealousies, accen-
3 tuated by the treatment some nations
received under the Wilson policy,
' which already Is provoking secret
9 agreements and understandings and
e making 1t more improbable that the
Q unanimity on big questions which Is
y required by the covenant ever can be
3 obtained easily.
o FOURTH-The utter failure, as
n many here see IT, of President VIII
= sons chief reliance, the economic
d weapon. to do what its supporters
claimed for II.
a Must Call League at Once.
As the situation appears to many her
President Wilson must call the Leagu
of Nations to meet at once or run
great risk OF seeing older and what man
consider more practicable methods sub
, stituted for the scheme his idealism i'm
posed here. at least for the present Thi
is why Europe Is watching the bulletin
at.Ns 49,. II. ~
determine what Is to happen.
The growing concern of Premier Gle
lmenceau over the confusion now existin
ls 10 becoming more and more noticeabl
d Much attention has been given to thi
j. para graph In his speech Saturday In tn
It Chamber Of Deputies:
d "I see some members OF the Societ
p Of Nations who. standing In an en-
brasure, regard each other pistol
ID hand. For the Society of Nations
" live there must be men capable of NAL
20 ing 1t live. Before reforming othei
Al they must be capable Of reformil
% themselves"
II Commenting upon this utterance. L
B. Verits insists that Premier Clemences
n. still Is a sceptic and adds that It was
of curious thing that nobody either in II
,r Senate or the Chamber recalled to hi
that the peace treaty was worth on
y, what the League of Nations was wort
10 and that nobody had any confidence
ID the foundations that had been give
II to H.
IN Rumanian Alliance q Worry.
Emphasizing the skepticism whiC
/, prevails in the Balkans as a result thu
L far of the application Of the Wilson po
ley is the movement for an alliance b.
tween Italy, France and Rumania, a.
Contiased on EisAtA Paes.