The sun., 1919-08-09
EUROPEAN SNARL
Anglers SENATORS
British Call for 10000 U. s,
Troops to Caucasus Is
a Surprise.
SECRET TREATIES TOLD
Ultimatum to Rumania
Show This Country Deeply
Involved in Affairs.

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WARRINGTON. Aug. S.--The League Of
Nations debate came back with bans
In the Senate to-day. when the uppei
chamber was brought TO realize the ex,
tent to which the United States has be-
come involved In the interminable and
inextricable entanglements Of the Bal
kan States.
Factors which contributed to the SEN
atorial awakening included:
The cabled report from Europe that
Great Britain Is planning to withdraw
her military forces from the. Caucasus
and wants the United States to send
$4,000 troops there to keep order.
The announcement that the United
States has sent an ultimatum to Ru-
mania, warning II that 1t must cease
aggression against Hungary or this
country win be unable to continue
economic support for Rumania-
The Paris report that Italy and
Greece have been privately agreeing
on territorial distributions in the Near
East. contrary to the programme to
which the American peace delegates
have committed themselves and cal
culated greatly to embarrass them.
The announcement that there was
a Sc cret treaty by which the port of
Fiume was assured to the Kingdom OF
the Serbs. Croats and Slovenes, and
that this was why Italy never had
chance to get the award of that prize.
Development of these various facts ir
the course of debate drew from Senator
Thomas (Col) the declaration that he
thought II would have been better IL the
United States had kept free from all en-
tanglement with this mess" and SEN
ator Brandegee (Conn.) renewed his in
sistence that the proper course for this
country was to recognize. by a resolution
of Congress, the existence Of q status OF
peace, and keep the United States from
further ENHANCEMENT
Lodge Is Astonished.
Senator Lodge (Mass) declared him.
self astonished that the American dele
cation at Paris should have acquiesced
in giving Thrace of Bulgaria.
Senator Brandegee fConn.) read q
newspaper article describing conditions
lean delegation at Paris had acquiesced
in assigning Thrace to Bulgaria in
stead of Greece, despite the fact that
Thrace ia essentially Greek In charac-
ter.
This article" said Senator Brande-
gee. ''shows that the Balkans are still
af1ame. that Italy and Jugoslavia are
at swords points. that every time we
mix into European quarreis we get into
trouble and make enemies for America
When the war ended every natior
in Europe except Germany was oui
friend. l should like to know what ma
ton ia now a friend to America. Presi
dent Wilson has said that Venizelos wal
the strongest man he had seen in Eu
rope. Evidently Venizelos has escapet
from Utopia and from the delusions ant
Authorizations which animated at leas
one member of the Peace Conference
That article Is particularly unpleas
ant in its allusion to Thrace," said Sena.
tor Lodge. 1T do not believe any Ameri
can understanding the Thraciap question
can favor handing Thrace over to Bull
garia. Thrace is essentially Greek. ant
should be Joined to Greece. TO give 81
20 Bulgaria, Germany's ally, seems L
me a great wrong
Senator Thomas (Col) at this point
offered another newspaper article deal
ing with the agreements between Italy
and Greece for the distribution OF terri
tory in which both are interested.
'It will be observed by the Senate
suggested Senator Thomas. that side
agreements of this sort between parties
TO the general peace are very common.
1T would seem that the position OF the
Crited States has been consistent SO far
as Fiume and Bulgaria are concerned
but that Italy and Greece have been
playing both ends against the middle
making a division of territory between
themselves satisfactory to both, provided
the peace congress shall accept their
partition of the Balkans and parts OF
Asia Minor.
Menace to United States Seen.
81 regret the identification of = the
United States with these squabbles Nc
boundary settlements in the Balkans OIL
Central Europe will make for worlt
peace unless they be confirmed and con
tinued by military force ready to ac
whenever the Allies direct. We SHOULD
have foreseen these things when We
went into the war. Now we are there
We cannot help ourselves we must stay
until the entire condition Is cleared vi
by a general treaty.
IF we should adopt the tr1aty with
out the League of Nations we woult
still be in Europe. for aside from tn,
league the treaty provides, believe
nlnteen commissions and boards, man,
of them endowed with all governmental
authority, pending the determination o.
boundaries and the holding of plebiscites
We are one of the group Of powers hold
ing the territory west of the Rhine fol
the time being"
Doubtless a treaty of peace with Ger
many will be made at some time" sai(
Senator Brandegee. But a mere dec
laration by Congress that the state o.
war no longer exists would put us a
peace with Germany"
Senator Thomas declared he abso
lutely rejected the theory that Congress
has the power to declare peace in suci
fashion. II think" he said, that tn,
details OF the Peace Congress wher
given TO the world win disclose a selfish
ness and sordidness among the nation.
that will prove that human nature 1,
practically unchanged since 1915 or an,
other time In history. Italy made tn,
best bargain she could with the Allie.
while also negotiating with the Contra
Powers. The Allies made the best pro
posal and Italy accepted It. No men
ton was made of Fiume. but Italy nov
demands It,"
Another Secret Treaty.
but was there not another secre
treaty, by which Fiume was to becom
a possession OF the Serbo-Croatian-Sla
vonian Slater" asked Senator Nose
IN. HI.
Senator Thomas said he had neye
heard OF such an agreement, but Sen
attn Lodge said II had been announced
by President Wilson and by the Italian
Premier
$50 that II seems 10 be merelv .