The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-10

of Franco-German peace. In the same
way Germany loses to Poland Upper
Slcsia and Posen, but preserves her
claim upon the Polish corridor, which
may be successfully pressed hereafter,
and II successfully pressed will make
Poland only a creature of Germany.
We have also laid great financial bur
dens upon Germany, as was right, but
at the same tim we have preserved the
temptation to German ambition to seek
again the domination Of Central Eu-
rope by falling to erect strong national
states out of the various partially lib
Grated nationalities of Central Europe.
TO sun up, then:
The peace conference has been dom
mated by Anglo-Saxon influences. Mr..
wilson's league of nations idea has
been translated into a covenant mainly
the work of able British statesmen,
whose friendship for the United States
Is not to be questioned, and whose hope
Is that the world war will lay the
foundation for enduring Anglo Ameri-
car association. But this covenant and
his league Of nations as an Anglo
Saxon creation has failed In any degree
10 recognize conditions of continental
Europe, 1t has therefore no real
strength and nothing more han formal
acceptation outside OF the British EN-
It's sole strength will be in a possible
alliance between Great Britain, the
United States and France, which would
be, In fact, a negation of the ideas Of
the American champions Of the league
Of nations.
Blunder Repeated.
In addition, Anglo 81 axe supremacy
at Paris, through its lack OF interest
n appreciation of conditions of Cen
tral Europe, has repeated the blunder
OF the congress of Berlin and created
"a new eastern question, ten times as
great as the old, and perpetnated con
ditions of racial rivalries and jealousies
extending from the Baltic to the Aegean
n affecting more than eighty mil
lions OF people. Such settlements as
1t has attempted have been rejected,
out of hand, by all peoples affected,
precisely as the Balkan people rejected
the settlement Of Berlin, and in reject
Ing settlement these peoples have also
rejected the league Of nations, since
1t represents the legalizing of those
arrangements intolcrable to Central and
Eastern European peoples.
We say in our treaty what the terms
OF existence of the Poles, Southern
Slavs, Hungarians, Rumanians, Gee
cho-Slovaks, Bulgars and Greeks are
to be, but each of these peoples has
IN advance announced its refusal to
accept these conditions and their armies
are now illustrating their refusal. When
bit lttdliN Tue HlStUIN Oh serbia since
the congress OF Berlin, when one re-
calls the course Of events In the Bal
kans, 1t is not difficult to see what
Is to come.
As a basis for an Anglo Saxon al
lance between the United States and
the British Empire, with the possible
inclusion Of France, provided we and
the British are prepared to give France
those guarantees to which she Is en-
titled, the league of nations can exist
n may exist, but as an association Of
all the peoples of the world to prevent
war, II Is dead, because eighty millions
of people outside of German and
seventy millions within do not accept
the terms liked by the Paris confer
ence, and are ready now as in the past
to appeal to arms, are IN certain cases
already appealing to arms, to reverse
decision.
AS between Great Britain, the United
States and Germany, this treaty may
be a Settlement. AS between France
and Germany 1t may be settled IL we
and the British guarantee the French
against new German attack, but as be-
tween the Germans and the people OF
the East and South Of Europe, as be-
tween Italy and the Southern Slays.
as between the Hungarians and the
Rumanians. as between the Poles and
the U~kranians, it is nothing. II is am
other patched-un peace, following eN-
haustton, which can only endure during
IA period OF exhaustion.
Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate,