Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-11-06
SEE NO PEACE AHEAD
UNTIL ALL EUROPE
RETURNS To NORMAL
Paris lie Matin Pessimistic
About Situation in
Near Future.
Cable to Great Falls Daily Tribune
Chicago Tribune and New York Times.
Copyright, 1919

Paris, Nov. 5.-ln a strongly worded
article, lie Matin asks: When are We
going to have peace in Europe This
Journal always in close touch with
French officialdom. calls attention 10
the fact that there remain. after the
treaty of Versailles. five other treaties
to be signed and ratified it pictures the
disordered conditions in Europe aud
sees, still at 4 distance the day when
the continent will once more be normal.
The article is noteworthy because IL
makes the fEat statement that soviet
Russia Is the enemy Of the allies and
says that before peace comes 10 Europe
there must be accord with Russia.
The general tone Of this portrayal OF
the situation is anything but optimistic,
In few days we are assured. says
lie Matin, that the treaty Of Versailles
will come into force But will one be
able to see in this historic act the re-
turn Of peace, TO normal eonditionss We
do not believe 50. Germany was certain
y our principal eEemy but she was not
threatens to continue vet for long
months. strangling our commerce and our
economic expansion.
The signature of tie armistice had
for us an effect little foreseen-that of
increasing the number of eur enemies.
They We're four during the war. they
have become SIX at the moment when
negotiations for peace began. Austria
Hungary. in effect. was cut in two ami
1T became necessary to treat with both
Vienna and Budapest.
Furthermore the Russian soyiets,
whose attitude was for long time
doubtful. have passed frankly into the
camp of our adyersaries,
''i'HnrPfDf IN ORDER that" E.nr0Hp
enjoy the real benefits Of peace it is
necessary In ratify or sign. vet five
treaties of peace. Since Russia has not
participated ID the peace conference we
must some Of these days when order
shall have been re-established in that
country, sign with her special aeeerds.
Before these acts can be accomplished
what complications exist for our bust
ness men wishing to re-estahlish foreign
commerce.
To-day the business man having some
thing to sell and wishing to 20, for ex
ample, by land route to Constantinople
is forced to cross four enemy countries
Austria. Hungary, Bulgaria aud Turkey.
Technically, and for long months the
man who undertakes such a voyage
makes himself four times an enemy.
''Dne can understand then. that under
these conditions the end of hostilites,
although officially proclaimed. is far
from having arrived. Then when will
come the real end of the war?
We have tried to inform ourselves
by asking the chiefs of the cuisine dip
lomatique. If their opinions are di-
vided. they are nevertheless all pessi-
mistic Besides. the situation is not the
same with regard ta all countries with
which we are at war.
Austria has just coneurred. 1t ap-
pears there WAS not far to go Ia arrive
at peace at the hands of the supreme
council. The treaty with Austria has
been negotiated. discussed, argued and
finally signed at St. German. 1t has
been ratified by one entente power. Italy.
But when will we have other ratifica-
tons Nobody knows. What is sure
in any case is that French ratification
cannot be accomplished for a long time.
France has no more chamber. The new
one will meet on Dec. S and its tegls
lative power will not begin for some
time after that date. One foresees. then,
that the exchange of ratifieations of the
treaty with Ausria cannot take place
before the month of February, 1920.
bulgaria comes after Austria. Her
conditions of peace have been given her;
she has answered, and she will sign.
without doubt-some day. Optimists
think that this country will be at peace
with us about March or April of next
year.
AS for Turkey. nothing has been yet
decided There is not even the beginning
of project of peace with the Ottoman
empire and no one can say what will
be the fate of the geographic outlines
of that country.
For Hungary-that is yet another
affair." We do not know yet whether
we can enter into negotiations with that