Evening star., 1919-08-21
Hungary Follows Fiume.

1 we next SHCOuut6ISQ n3llOud1lSIu III
Hungary. combined this time with
bolshevism, when the Hungarian peo-
pie refused to throw on bolshevism
as long as only moral influences were
exerted. but promptly appealed to the
armies INTERVIEWED. while the Ruman-
| ians, in their turn defying the Paris
| conference. proceeded to take what
| they had claimed without regard to
the several notes emanating from
| It 10 apparent then. that in every
| case where the league Of nations idea
| and the conference Of Paris deci-
| sions have encountered nationalism,
mise violating the essential prin-
| ciples of the league of nations, as in
| the case of Shantung: a deadlock, as
| in the case of Fiume, or. in the
latest case. a deliberate defiance and
| an appeal to force.
Now, it Is transparent that this
sort of thing cannot go on without
reducing the whole league Of nations
proposal to nothing short Of a ridicu-
lous position. The American Senate
given by President Wilson to France,
and II 1t does France will be free to
stay on the Rhine. The Italians have
not the smallest intention to abandon
Fiume: the Japanese purposes in
shantung are at least undisciosed; the
Rumanians are stopping in Budapest
and still advancing in the Banat. while
the Poles, the Lithuanian, the Buf-
garians. the Greeks, to mention only
q few other nations and races, are
force rather than upon abstract moral
principles for the assertion Of their
claims.
Actually, and the thing must soon be
apparent to everybody, the conference
Of Paris is failing in the face of the
~ 1A
President Wilson failed in the pres
ence of Germany at war in the matter
of the submarines. Notes and u1ti-
matums. language unacconpanied by
force, are achieving as little now az
then. In the end we had to go to war
with Germany or get of the ocean.
Now at no distant time the nations
who up to the present moment con-
stitute the league Of nations will
have to. use force against Italy and
improbably against Poland. Serbia,
Turkey and various other states. to
compel them to surrender what they
believe to be their sacred and historic
rights, or abdicate and let quArrels
which are at least old-feshioned pc
more old-fashioned.
Turn Back to Methods Of Past.
Moreover-and this point is Of equal
Importance to the American people
there is growing feeling In France,
as there is a positive conviction In
italy. and unconceaied aetssminafnon thn nation
! Of the league of nations principle and
to the direct %s.noos st q Pars 1hs
still functioninS on the lines laid
down by the league Of nations Hs GOV.
enant, has just about reached the
point where it has discovered thet
the only way to make a peace founa.
ed on approximate justice permanent
is to be prepared both physically ana
morally to fight all the time.
Rumania. whom we were wont TO
| sneer at nve years ago. mas now
challenged the whole League OF ma.
tions idea openly and directly ana
proceeded BY force Of arms to realize
ambitions which. on the whole. must
excite sympathy in many quarters.
and in no single instance represent
| a violation Of the rights OF sei1-de-
does the Italian annexation Of the
| 0erman-speaking Tyrol ana the Siav.
| ophons districts in the inheritance Of
Trieste or the japanese acquisition OF