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shall accept the verdict. In other
words, he believes the league OF ma
tons should settle this point and that
plenty OF time shall be available 10
make an equitable decision.
Plans All Upset.
The italian delegation is in a hurry
can't leave It to the league-and on
hearing that "A preliminary treaty Of
peace is being drafted for German sig
nature, argues that she viii not con
sent until the treaty with Austria is
agreed upon, Thus all the supposedly
well-laid plans for a treaty with Ger
many, made while President Wilson
was in America, were wrecked on his
arrival because Italy would not sanction
the scheme to give France her claims
without Al the same time giving Italy
what h wanted. But " the French
had the idea that any treaty which
would give the left bank Of the Rhine
to France would be signed by the
American delegation they were mis-
taken, Mr.. Wilson undoubtedly served
notice to this effect on his arrival.
That wrecked the preliminary treaty
with Germany. This question, too, Mir.
Wilson believes the league of nations
can wrestle with,
In other words. MIR, Wilson's Ryno-
nym for a permanent peace commits
Nv ~ WIN buN AlltSt pl bIltIlN Is Il
league of nations, II Is a formula to
settle tangled questions, And those
who believe peace will come in Europe
by signing any kind Of a treaty In
Germany and discussing afterWard ma %
chlnery for executing It, simply are un-
acquainted with what is really going
on In Paris today. After each allied
nation got what 1t wanted, there would
be little interest in any league, And
after each entente power got what it
wanted there would be no guarantee
that Europe would stay peaceful, for
some Of the delegations in Paris have
given little heed to the warning of
me brltish and Americans that gov
efnnlentS and armies may be subdued,
able.
Today comes grim confirmation Of
TINS view IN the news that rather than
accept occupation Of Hungarian terri
tory, the Hungarian cabinet has re-
signed and turned over the government
TO the soviet in the hope of forming
an alliance with Bolsheyiki Russia, a
manifesto by the Hungarian govern
ment breaks off relations with the
peace conference and appeals to the
proletariat of the world,
Occupation Of Hungarian territory
means, II Is commended, no food for
starving women and children in Hun
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duplicated many times In Europe be-
fore reRctlonary statesmen In some Of
the delegations see the point in the
repeated warnings made by Premier
Lloyd George and President Wilson that
the peace conference must make a Just
peace or invite anarchy,
When so influential and conspicuous
= writer as ], l., Garvin, says In the
London Observer that without a league
there VIII be no peace for long II
Y proof that the British realize the
dangers Of u hastily made peace treaty.
satisfying the ambitions OF politicians
and Ignoring the wishes Of peoples. He
adds without some new principle Of
association between peoples the settle
nient as projected would not last five
years.
The instant question for the asso-
clated powers to make M their minds
about, is what to do with Germany.
As surely as arrogane spoliation by
Germany in 1871 was punished In 1919.
so surely VIII indicative abuse OF VIC
tory recoil at some future day upon
the head OF France. No political luna
Tic IL now so distempered as to suppose
that Germany can pay the whole cost
of the war or for that purpose can be
Kept IN a state of tribute and serfdom
for fifty and a hundred years"
What Mr.. Garvin seems to say repre-
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states government so far as It can be
learned here. II IL one thing for the
delegates in Paris to write terms of a
treaty for signature before n league OF
nations Is created and 1t is quite an.
other to get the United States to put
its name beneath territorial settle.
ments which It firmly believes win keer
the peace Of Europe unsettled as dlt
the wrestling Of Alsace-Lorraine from
France in 1911.
The upshot Of II all will %undoubtedl,
be a definite statement sooner or late,
from President Wilson that unless IN,
character OF the settlements are Jus
and provision is made for the guaran
tee Of these settlements by an asso,
citation OF powers. there can be no ad.
herence on the part Of the American
delegation. Territorial settlements ar,
the basis Of the trouble in Paris with
political ambitions OF individuals on tn,
one side and a true appreciation o
the chaos In Europe on the other
Which of The two viii VIM when tina
question Is answered n real start will
be made toward an early peace II
Europe.
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