Evening star., 1919-05-11
LEAGUE SEEN AS PARTNERSHIP
BETWEEN u. S. AND THE ENGLISH
Simonds Says France Demanded Alliance
and Great Britain Promised It-Weak
Spots in Treaty Pointed Out.

fense easy or permanent acquisition
probable.
The solution of the italian question
| Is not yet accomplished as write
| this article. but nothing Is more Ger
tain than that II 1t be settled at all, 1t
will be settled by one more eompro-
mise Of the Danzig order. which will
leave both parties resolved to reopen
| 1t the moment they are able to fight.
| Unquestionably we shall lhave re-
| course to that same method Of the
league Of nations. internationaltza-
t, tton, which makes the Saar and Dan
| zig enduring menaces to the peace of
| the world
! Further than this, 50 far as the Ru-
manians are concerned. so far as the
Poles are concerned. on their eastern
| frontier. we have as yet taken no
step. But we are making tentative
plans for compromise, which will
leave the Hungarians and the Ru-
| manians, the Poles and the Ukrainians
| war. And failure in this direction has
| single clear Significance The prob
lem, perhaps the supreme problem.
before the conference of peace was
so far as the continent of Europe
was concerned, so to mold the new
peoples In the east that western Eu-
rope would find as a support against
| any new German attack 60.O00,ego
of allies in Poland, Czechoslevakia,
| Rumania and Jugoslavia.
| Russia Left Open to Huns.
In falling to do this we have, in
t'fact. left the way open to Germany to
organize Russia and rebuild Mittel
Europa. We have erected only
fragile and hopeless Poland between
! I0,009,e00 of Germans. with the su-
preme necessity of beginning new In
dustrial expansion. and 129,0O0,O0O of
| Russians. with the richest undevel-
oped country in the world inviting
demanding what Germany can give
| we have chosen. despite the warn
1ngs of many continental statesmen
to- resign, Russia TO Germany just as
we have In the east so dealt with the
German colony In China as to rec
east. Two great compromises In the
peace of Paris are the compromise
oHered to Germany in the shape of
1nqefensible Poland. which cannot. bar
the German pathway into Russia, and
the compromise of the western pow
China. ~'Ae
We have then made patched-up
peace, SO far as the mainland Of Eu-
rope and of Asia is concerned. Now.
- tiio SCSohu pldCe, we AnEl0-SaXOnS,
British as we'll as ourselves, have for
mulated the league of nations, In
which British and American handi-
work is combined. This league Of ma
tfons conforms in all respects to
Anglo Saxon necessities and desires
Neither Great Britain nor ourselves
now has great neishbor whose pro-
pinqufty carries q constant menace
to our safety. Neither Great Britain
nor ourselves. either for reasons of
security or economic progress, de-
sires the territory Of any other ma
tion nor has any difference with any
other nation which we cannot-given
our ocean frontiers and our combined
naval supremacy-permit to paso
through the league of nations ma
chinery which we ourselves invented.
League, o. s.-England Partnership.
The league Of nations covenant is
nothing more nor less than q formu-
lation Of articles of partnership be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain. We and the British have
made q treaty Of peace. We and the
British. taking fair. but not particu-
Ilarly generous recognition of the