Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-19
Article in London Paper Head
ed "PreSident or Premier"
Tells of Split Between VIII
son and CIemenCeau,
LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS
WORK OF PRESIDENT
Treaty is Product Of French
PREMIER Two Cannot Exist
Together Wants League to
Destroy Treaty.
1919, by the Press publis
ing Co.
CThe New York WorldO
Especial Gable Dispatchb

! London, June Is. president or
Premier" is the title of a two-col-
umn article by A. G. Gardner editor
, of the Daily News, which that paper
prints this morning. He asks if the
victory Is with President Wilson or
Premier Clemcnceau and says that
question overshadows all others in
the peace conference. Then he pro-
ceeds to contrast the opposing policies
of the two mon--Wilson's peace of
justice and Clemenceaus peace of
vengeance.
ut was a fatal mistake to hold the
peace conference in Paris" he says,
for the entire atmosphere of discus
sion was vitated there. There is not
an Ensl!shman who has been in Paris
in the last six months who does not
realize the gravity of this mistake.
Both Have Won; Both Lost.
Both the president and the pre-
mier have won and both have lost.
The American peace is embodied in
the league of nations covenant. and
the French peace is embodied in the
treaty The covenant lays down a
scheme of a new world order and the
treaty re-estabishes the old ordef;
the cowanant aims ut the abolition of
miltarism and the treaty rc-cnncts
miltarism. But the two cannot Co
exist; they are mutually destructive.
If the covenant survives. the treaty
must go; II the treaty survives, the
covenant is Rtill-born
1T is my purpose here to appeal TO
American liberalism, in the name of
English liberalism, not to desert the
president. The struggle between the
president and the premier is not
oyer; it has only begun.
"Clemenceau does not represent
France. 1t is notorious that an cleo
ton in France would depOso him from
power tomorrow. Still less does his
policy voice the feelings OF the cont
mon people or the soldiery Of this
country. They want a clean peace
and a clean world. They fought to
dcsroy the Prusslan system. not 10
destroy the German people, and they
| will have no part in that impossible
| task.
| Disaster to Foil Wilson.
There is only one danger 20 fear.
! 1t !s the danger that America may
withdraw from the struggle. If Amer
lea were to SO. the league of nations
would expire with her going and all
| hope for a new and better order for
the world would perish
1--WE would be left like a derelict on
the seaboard. sinking deeper and
deeper In ruin, under the burden OF
| inCessant wars. In the end We too
would have to isolate ourselves from
| the wreck of the old world.
1T is possible that we might find
some measure of compensation In an
alliance with America on the basis
Of common guardianship of the seas
and the pooling of fleets huts OBJ
stacles to this are as obvious as are
the perils that we would drift apart,
and that the American continent.
north and south. might be organized
under some imperialist leader like
the late Theodore Roosevelt and
would turn the peaceful isolation oil
the past to armed isolation for the
future.
such are the Nightmares evoked
by the thought that the president
may be thrown over in, this great
crisis. British liberalism looks to
American liberalism to prevent this
crowning disaster to the world