Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09

1entlne CHlioA'
 .;+v on India and Persia, who ac-
 ,nanied Viscount Curzon when he
 viceroy of India in his tour
 aS 1o,sis is out in an article strong
 ,,nbolding the Anglo-Persian
 eaty recently negotiated, and de-
 ering 1, that it will be submitted to
 2 ir council of the league of nations,
 sore he confidently believes it will
 @ @annroved as "the first milestone
 E;prtkernational relationship based
 unon might, but upon right. " Er Valentine says in part:
 aThe agreement signed on August
 between the British and Persian
 ,rernments is the first important
 ternational treaty-outside those
 Included between actual belliger-
 bts-since the armistice of Novem-
 pr has held out the promise of re-
 prnine peace to shattered and ex-
 pnsted world. The promise re- ,ains still very largely unfulfilled,
 If the treaty of Versailles has at sast laid down in the covenant of he league of nations the lines up- which, it may reasonably be |oped. it's fulfillment may ultimate ] be completed and made as perma- ently secure as can be expected rom the inherent fraility of all nman combinations.
 "The first question therefore to be sked by those who study the terms fl the new Anglo-Persian agree nent, and especially by such as are lot directly interested in the con- Erete questions, which it has en- feavored to solve, must necessarily De whether the spirit and substance If this compact is in harmony with ! he new dispensation fore-shadowed y the league of nations. It's au- .hors are confident that it is, and lave given the strongest proof pos |ible of their sincerity by undertak- ng to submit it to the council of |he league of nations and to defend
 jointly before that body as soon Is the council comes into effective xistence after the ratification of he Versailles treaty.
 If the Anglo-Persian agreement 'an stand that decisive test, it will be he first and very conscious mile tone on the road along which the Forld may hope to travel towards the Establishment of system of inter- ational relatiinships based not upon hight, but upon right"
 Referring Persia's attitude in the Eecent war, he says:
 "There were moments when the Persian court and government con- linced that Germany win, nearly sue nmbed to hostile solicitations. But
 that stage the popinquity of Rus fan armies and the capture of Bag lad by the British were powerful or |ectSves to the tale of Germanic vic- pries on the more distant battle Eelds of Europe. When the Rus ban debacle released Persia from the ld nightmare of Russian domination, Ind British troops and British sup lies alone stood between the peo- He of Western Persia and the depre- stions of Turkish invaders, which 'ad already spelt starvation and ntold sufferings, the statesmanship i the more enlightened and farsee- pg Persians such as the present rime minister. Vossuk-ed-Dowleh. nally prevailed, and Persia. having farned the bitter lesson of her own Fter helplessness, realized once more lands.
 "So when the great war came to end and Turkey as we'll as her Furopean allies had to sue for peace
 Persia. whilst the old dread of au- Pcratic Russia had made room for ne new terror of Russia Bolshevism, [rltain was in a position to dictate Factlcally any terms she liked at [eheran. She could have imposed Foctectorate, yelled or unveiled, as Eas expected by many Persians with neasy consciences over certain incl fntss such as the prostrations of the erslan delegation to Brest, Litovsk 1ore the triumphant mailed fist
 Germany.
 She could certainly have made out strong case in Paris for the exer- se of benevolent tutelage over ersla under mandate from the ague of nations. She wisely re- aned from doing any of these Plngs. In Lord Curzon's words. .she ealt with Persia as an equal part IT possessing and enjoying her own Pvereignty.'
 The Persians know today as never FIore that they cannot work out elr own regeneration unaided. Their amn1lnlstrative system is hopelessly eI1lclent. Their finances are nkrupt. They have no organized Plce capable of maintaining external Ec9rlty or internal order. The nat al resources of the country, poten- aiiy not inconsiderable, are as un- fveloped as its primitive methods of aoe and industry. Equally wretch
 are its means of communication, nas no railways, scarcely any roads @ Eor!n speaking of, only one barely rvLgaole river, the Karun, and no agors amo but open roadsteads.
 me new Anglo-Persian agreement ESs down the nature and extent of |Iitlsh 2 e assistance required and ask TOT by Persia to start putting her Uuse Tn order. The British gov anment at;t agrees to supply in consul aIlon with the Persian government