Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-08
PARIS
WARS OF FUTURE
Punishment of Germany
and Adriatic East Coast
Are Possible Causes
NATIONS U BE JUST
Senator Owen, Of Oklahoma,
Warns France Against Being
Too Harsh
BY CHARLES A. SELDEN
Special Cable 70 Epening Public Ledger


COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY the n. Y. Times Co.
Paris. Jan. s tdelayed). - There Is
almost as much talk in Paris these days
about the possible causes OF future wars
~ about the peace TO conclude tht
present war. Two OF these possible
causes are supposed to lie in what may
be done TO punish Germany and in the
method OF settling the Adriatic east
coast dispute between Italy and the
J~ugo-slavs.
The recent retirement Of Bissolati'
Minister of Military Aid and War Pen
sions, from the Orlando cabinet. has a
direct bearing on the Adriatic matter
Bissolati saw two dangers in Sonninos
feactionary policy. He fears the inter-
nal effect of promising the Italian peo-
pie more territorial acquisition han he
believes America will consent to at the
Peace Conference. He fears. secondly
an exterior danger in embittering the
Jugo-Slavs. already on the verge OF
fighting. by depriving them OF the pal-
matian and other sections Of the Adri-
alto coast. and thus making an enemy OF
the strong people in the Hinterland
back Of the coast Sonnino insists upon
having.
Bissolati feels the true future mission
OF Italy Is to be the leading nation or
a group Of friendly states extending
from the Adriatic to the Black Sea. To
assure such a friendly group. he would
waive Italy's technical territorial rights
promised to her in the secret London
treaty by France, England and Russia
in 1915, in order to get her TO join
them against the Central Powers, but
which England and France would now
set aside IL Italy would consent. and
which America says must be set aside.
or at least modified In fairness TO the
Jugo-Slavs. 1t was maintained because
of this difference with Foreign Minister
Sonnino that Bissolati got out.
Orlando Would Compromise
Premier Orlando indicates that he
would compromise II he could and take
Bissolati's view in part by giving the
Jugo-Slavs port rights in Fiume and
giving them the Dalmatian coast with
the ports of cara, Slpeneco and Spa
lata. But he is up against a stone wall
of opposition from his foreign minister.
whom he could not remove If he would
because Of interior politics.
So In this situation lies the possibility
Of a war over the Adriatic. which. In its
turn, would involve tie world again in
the near future.
Another element in which many peo-
pie see future danger is in the perfectly
human and natural feelings of France
arainst Germany. They are human and
natural in view Of what happened in
1915. 1870 and especially In view of the
barbarities. cruelties and atrocities of
the last four years. One "a of look
ing at the question was expressed TO
me today in conversation by Senator
owen, Of Oklahoma, who is now in Paris,
Senator Owens Opinion
Germany cannot be annihilated or
sxterminated,' he said. "She las got
more than 0 5000, 900 people and they
are very prolific. She has got race af-
fiiiations to the north of her and may
control Russia. There is the possibility
of a vast coalition against southwest
Europe. Now IL the nations at pres
ent victorious attempt to crush Germany
by imposing penalties infinitely greater
than she imposed on France in 1870
Germany will bide her time, Increase her
strength and population, feed her hatred
on the desire for revenge and eventu-
ally come back with far greater force.
Next time France will not have the
help of the other nations If she fiouts
them now and balks their efforts TO
make a permanent just peace, free OF
the causes Of future hatreds.
'"The nations now victorious must not
dictate an unjust peace and then try
TO nail it down with permanent provi-
sions OF a League of Nations. There
must, on the contrary. be a league Of
nations with just principles in accord
ance with which the peace with Germany
must be concluded"