Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-07
PRESIDENT WILSON
IN FRENCHCHAMBER
Makes His Strongest, Speech
From the Tribune.
NOTABLE GROUP IS PRESENT
First Time in Seventy Years the Plat
form Occupied by an Outsider
czechc-S lovakia Agreement Is
Reached by the Powers.

| Paris, Feb. 4.-President Wilson, in
an address in the chamber of deputies
on the society of nations, said France
is still the frontier of freedom, be-
cause eastern Europe is full of mem
acing questions, from the Rhine across,
| Siberia to the Pacific. He said the
sacrifices of independent action which
nations must make to establish So
ciety are Incompatible to the sacri-
fees necessary eff league is not es-
tablished.
! 1t was the strongest speech on the
subject Persistent Wilson has made
since his arrival Without a league
he said, Europe would remain armed
cap-a-pie, but the world is now about
to fashion a brotherhood which will
make crushing ornaments unneces-
sary. The president declared the way
| to permanent peace is to make it GER
tain to every people in the world that,
whenever any free people is threat
ened, the whole world stands ready to
vindicate its liberty.
Speaks From Tribune.
|
President Wilson spoke from the
tribune, the first outsider to do so in
20 years. On the platform were Pre-
mier Clemenceap and President Poin-
care and the chamber was filled with
the best minds of France.
The great powers struck an agree
ment between Poland and Czecho-
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ferences over the principally of Tes-i
chen in sSilesia, Austria. The pact,
which was signed by the Polish and
Czech delegates and Wilson, Clemen-
ceau and Orlando for the big four,
repeats the warning given to the
smaller nations against grabbing terri
tory, reiterating they must leave
boundary disputes to the congress.
The Czechs have agreed to release
Polish prisoners taken in the fighting
over Teschen.
A commission of control was sent to
prevent further hostilities and to make
q survey of the frontiers, which will
be set later by the conference.
Hear Greek Claims.
The official text of the communique
reads:
1.-THE president of the United States.
the prime ministers and ministers for
foreign affairs Of the allied and assoc
ciated powers and the japanese rep
resentatives met at the Quai dOrsaysV
from II a. m. to p. m. They heard
M. Eenizelos statement of the claims
of Greece, which will be continued to-
morrow at IL q. M, after which the
Czecho-Slovak delegates will again be
heard"
The Greek claims, as presented by
Premier Venizelos, who was accompa-
MED by Nicholas Politis, the Greek
foreign minister, embrace northern
Epirus, Thrace down the Dardanelles,
including Constantinpole, and the sea
front along western Asia Minor, with
Smyrna as its commercial and geo.
graphical center
M. VenizelOS maintained that the
Greek race largely predominated in
these regions. This was so manifest,
NJ. Venizelos contended, particularly in
northern EpiruS, that he intimated his
willingness to leave. the question to a
plebiscite Of the inhabitants of the
various regions as the means of deter
mining the racial performance.
Concerning Constarttnople, the
Greek premier maintained that if OF
toman sovereignty were suppressed the
natural solution would be to allot Con-
stantinople and its vilayet to Greece
World Tax Urged.
Paris Feb. Proposals for the
establishment of single financial
front for the allies have been submit
ted to the entente ministers here by
Signor Crespi, member of the Italian
delegation, according to statement
made by him. After saying that the
central powers must compensate the
allies for the damage suffered during
the war, Signor Crespi said:
"On the other hand, all the allies
have suffered immense losses and
they must all benefit from the indem-
mites which the enemy is to pay.
Each one should receive in proportion
to the effort it has made. Thus
smaller states that have spent more
than larger ones, in comparison to
their wealth ought to receive larger
indemnities in proportion. Absolute
fairness ought to be preserved in the
division of indemnities.
"The simplest way to carry out the
actual distribution would be to PUT
the entire fund into common pool.
which could be periodically appor-
toned among the different nations.
The fund should be augmented by
taxes OLA universal character levied
on all states, enemy, allied or neu-
trail, the last named having benefited
from the sacrifices made by the al
lies.
.sThe enemy should be forced to
paw off as soon as possible the allies
debts. The international tax would
furnish interest on the rest and q
sinking fund for paying it of even
tually. In my opinion the enemy
ought to be allowed to pay not only
in gold but in raw materials and fin
ished products"
One Result,