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Evening journal., 1919-10-21
LEGION PREPARES
FOR CONVENTION
Delaware's Fighting Men
Meet in First State Con-
vention on Thursday
TO ADVOCATE
BONUS PAYMENT

There was activity aplenty at The
Estate Armory today where officials OF
Delaware Post. No. 1, American Legion
were engaged i'm preparing for the first
Estate convention Of the order, which
will convene at the Hotel dupont on
Thursday
AZ a meeting OF the Post last night
delegates and allernates to The conyen-
lion We're chosen as follows.
Delegates. D. Bush, c. NJ. Dillon,
William Turner, George l.. Evans, Dr.
v. D. Washburn, A. 5. Hirzel, Rev.
George C. Williams. II. Ray Rev. j.
+. Tucker, William J. Fox, George J.
Shullz. W. ]. Mckinney, George n. Da-
Wis. Or NJ /. Samuel and II. g. Parker.
Alternaies-E. y. Borton, George
Brown. c. C. Colwell, p H. Ilortz. J.. j.
Keeley, c.. II. Mckinney, NJ l.. Pritchett,
Jr.. II. q. Schechinger. l.. r.. Webb, A..
W. Wilson, Dunbar Muhlhausen, Law
renee Dunn, +. c. McGlnness, ]. r.
Brown, Jr
10 was announced that the Post had
100 members in good standing. Two
delegates at large, and one to every 100
members are allowed to each post.
There were more than 300 members
present at the Armory last night, and
they vociferously went on record as
being unalleihbly in favor OF the pas
sage Of pending legislation which would
authorize the deportation OF more than
500 enemy aliens now interned at Forts
Oglethorpe, Ga; Bliss, Texas, and Doug
lass. Utah. These men are the dregs OF
the 1000 or more dangerous aliens origi-
nally confined in army posts, Of whom
3200 have been released because OF the
absence OF any law under which they
could be properly handled.
The post also registered It's dlsap-
proval OF the retention in this cOun-
try Of "nrst papers slackers." meaning
foreigners who, after securing their
naturalization papers, re-
lnquished them rather than Join the
colors Of their adopted country when II
needed them.
The post directed delegates 20 the
Evening journal., 1919-10-21
STATUS OF GERMAN
IN SPORT ATTACKED

STOCKHOLM Oct. 2i.-The Interna-
tional FoOtball Association is perplexed
by the question Of the standing OF
German teams. British football asso-
Citations have announced that they will
Withdraw II the Germans are admitted.
1t is proposed TO admit the Germans
tentatively, but to suspend their vol-
ing privileges.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
French Reactionaries
Might Repudiate Treaty

We are, then, passing rapidly out
Ct the zone momentarily created by
the league of nations circumstances
at Paris. The Italians, the Ruma-
mans and the Jugo-Slavs have open
ly defied the whole Paris Conference.
The Rumanians and the Italians
have proceeded to the occupation
of territory expressly forbidden
them by the Paris Conference and in
open defiance of league of nations
principles. At any moment we may
find that the Clemenceau govern
ment will fall and be succeeded not,
as certain misguided liberals" in
the United States think, by radi-
cal ministry, but by a reactionary
one, reactionary in the sense that it
will repudiate the whole treaty as
framed at Versailles and proceed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Boy-Dnt
tout Ourvi uals From Aano

while the Italian navy dominated the
Adriatic and the Italian army and
ravy openly celebrated the recent
coup? AS in the case of Rumania,
the weapons, direct and indirect,
turned out to be unavailable under
the circumstances. Italy stayed at
Fiume as Rumania had tarried at
Budapest, and, in the delay, the OPP
position in European capitals grew
steadily less. This is a personal mat
ter between the President Of the
United States and the Italian peo-
pile; why should we interfere?-this
was the temper discoverable in
France and within limits in Great
Britain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Many ''Settled" Questions
Must Be Rescttled

AS see it, this can have only
one consequence, namely, a reset
Element of many of the questions
settled" or compromised in the
Paris Conference, question such az
Danzig, the Rhine barrier, tbs
Saar Basin, Thrace, and not impos.
sibly the Banat and Dalmatia. Tha
Paris Conference decisions wero
actually compromise between the
American idea, as Mr.. Wilson's
views were invariably described
abroad, and the European idea.
Now Italy and Rumania have repu-
dated any compromise and insisted
upon settling their problems in
thoroughly European fashion, while
the United States, so far as the
Senate is concerned, at least, has
challenged the American idea; and
the resulting political debate in
America has disclosed a divided sem
timent. Therefore, it seems to me
that France, Poland, the rest of the
Continental nations, will swiftly or
slowly-the French have many
years to decide in the matter of
the Saar and the Rhine, as the cir
cumstances dictate-seek CONT
mental solution conforming with
Italian and Rumanian action.
Copyright 1919. BY the Mcclure Newv.
paper Syndicate.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

episode upon the other parts of Eu-
rope.
Let us take, for example, the case
of the Saar Valley. The French
have it. They own, or will own,
every coal mine; they are authorized
to extend their customs lines to in
clude this territory. Fifteen years
in the future they will have to SUBJ
nit to a plebiscite to decide whether
the territory shall go back to Ger
many or remain French. But this
condition was imposed solely because
the President of the United States
set his face against an out-and-out
annexation as inconsistent with the
fourteen points. But since Italy and
Rumania are not permitting Presi-
dent Wilson's views to prevent them
from acquiring territory on which
they have claim not more justifi-
able, one would say, than the French
claim to the Saar, why should
France permit herself to be re-
strained?
Further than this, Mr.. Wilson,
for the United States, pledged, so
far as he could pledge it, an Amer
lean alliance to protect France
against German attack in the
future. Only by this pledge did
Mr.. Wilson persuade Clemenceau
to abandon the claims of Foch and
the French army to the military
occupation of the left bank of the
Rhine. Now, if the Treaty of YER
sailles, particularly in the parts re-
garded as vital to protect French
interests, is amended in the Senate !;
above all, if the United States SEN
ate refuses to ratify the treaty in
surfing France against German at
tack, what is more certain than that
France, which has not yet ratified
the treaty herself, will, with equal
promptness, add amendments of her
own?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
The Modern Gabriel
- From The Daily Express, London.

to use the power now in French
hands to safeguard the French
future.
The fact is, of course, that the
Germans could not now defend
themselves against the French. If
the French chose to send armies to
Berlin they could go with the ap-
rroXimate ease with which the Ru-
manian armies reached Budapest.
Moreover, the recent murder of
French soldiers in the Saar Basin,
the refusal of the Germans to re-
tire from the Baltic province, their
outrageous behavior in Upper Sile-
sia-all these supply admirable JUS
titications for such a French course.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Open Defiance
of Pact Started
by Ru1nanians
at Budapest;
Precedents Set
for France and
Greece to Act

interests, even when these interests
conflict with principles which were
proclaimed at Paris as the new con.
stitution of the world. 1t is re-
pudiation Of the idea that Italians
can think other than as Italians
when a question of national senti-
ment is at stake. When he addressed
his appeal to the Italian people over
the heads of the Italian Ministry, a
few months ago, President Wilson
had the opposite idea.
But Fiume is only a step. Far
more important steps are still to
come. We shall see a French gen.
eral election at no distant date
and we may see French ministry
fall before the election, for the
American episodes have been terri
bly, expensive for the Clemenceau
Ministry, which has held on up to
the present moment only by reason
OF the promised treaty of alliance.
And any new French ministry
would, in my judgment, adopt far
different course with respect to
Germany than the Clemenceau Min
istry has been led to adopt in the
belief that such course was neees-
sary to enlist essential American aid
for France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Such Step Would Doom
Treaty of Versailles

Once such a step were taken,
then there would be an obvious end
to the Treaty of Versailles. The
statesmen who carried through such
a programme would not hesitate to
take such safeguards for the future
as have not been taken by the
Clemenceau government solely be-
cause it relied upon President Will
sons assurance that he would be
able to procure the ratification, both
Of the Treaty of Versailles and the
treaty of alliance. France would
then enter into permanent occupa-
ton of the Rhine barrier and annex
the Saar Basin. In doing this she
would go no further than has Italy
or Rumania, and she might be as
sured the support of both Latin
powers as consequence.
This possible French procedure
would be described as imperialistic
by a certain fraction of American
and British sentiment, which does
not sympathize with France in any
event and regards with utmost dis
approval French apprehension Of a
new German attack. But most rea-
sonabe Englishmen and Americans
will see in French effort to achieve
security against German aggression
a natural and inevitable national in
stinct. Above all, neither Americans
nor Britons will be prepared to make
war upon France, which is the es.
sential fact.
In my judgment, future French
action will be entirely dependent
upon the course Of the United States
Senate in adopting or rejecting the
treaty of alliance. The French are
not interested in the league of ma
tons, do not believe in it and have
accepted it only as a matter of pol.
icy, not as an act of faith. If the
Senate rejects the treaty of alliance
the French will, in their own time
and in their own way, follow the ex-
ample of the Rumanians and the
| Italians. They will proceed to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Italian Ministry Knew
OF d'Annunzio's Plan

On the other hand, Rumania had
managed to survive, and the rising
national spirit Of resentment made
it difficult for the Italian govern
ment longer to stand in the pathway
Of national aspiration, even when
it was led to such position by a
wise regard for national welfare.
Nothing, then, was moro natural
than that the way out Of the d.
lcmma should be found in the re-
vival Of ono Of tho most glorious
and romantic episodes In all history.
or course, the Italian Ministry
knew Of the d'Annunzio plan, just
as Cavour and the King were thor
oughly conversant with Garibaldi's
plan. Not to perceive this Is to be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Europe Already Rejecting
President Wilson's Ideas

Had the United States Senate ac-
cepted the Treaty of Versailles with
out delay and by a unanimous, or
approximately unanimous, vote, the
European reaction would have been
far different from what it now is.
1t was the undisguised conviction of
both the French and British repre-
sentatives at Paris that the Presi-
dent was supported by the mass of
American people, without regard to
party, in his European course.
France bowed to certain entirely I'M
palatable demands of the President
simply because France needed Amer
lean financial assistance. and feared
that any other course would deprive
her of this aid. Italy, at least, hest
tated in the matter Of Fiume; Ru-
mania listened for the moment, bid
ing her time. AS for Poland, she
consented to the greatest sacrifices
of all, as her need of American sup
port was the most considerable Of
all.
But what has happened in Amer
lea since the President returned has
been at once a surprise and shock
to the European statesmen. The ex-
tent of the opposition to the Presi-
dent in the Senate has already called
forth debate in the French Chamber
and, if the treaty be modified and the
treaty of alliance rejected, may re-
suit in an upset in French politics,
If America is not unanimous in it's
support of President Wilson's poll
cies, as they affect France and Italy
as they affect all European ma
tons; if there is no possibility of
winning American sympathy and
support by accepting American ideas
as expressed by the President, at
real sacrifices of national security
and aspiration, then Europe is pre-
pared to reject them-is already re-
jecting them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Italian Sentiment
Behind d'Annunzio

"Terribly sorry, but we can't just
manage to do this thing; awkward
for us to attempt to deal with this
wild fellow; please take it In your
own hands. -" Such was the burden
Of the Italian official statement.
Meantime, Garibaldi's imltator was
we'll established in Fiume and actu-
ally embarrassed by the influx of
volunteers. What nation in Europe
desired to undertake to expel him,
knowing full we'll that Italian ma
tional sentiment would be up in
arms in a moment and war with
Italy was an immediate possibility,
while, If the war did not come at
once, enduring hatred would be the
consequence? Not France, certain
ly least of all France, with an 1tal-
ian frontier and a German menace
still to be thought Of. Not Great
Britain, out of humor with fighting
whether at Archangel OF Fiume, and
anxious, like the United States, to
set her troops home and have done
with warmaking for time.
AS for economic pressure, the
thing was only little less danger
GUS. How could ono starvc the 1tal-
ians and tho inhabitants Of Fiumo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Idealism Being Discarded:
Realism Is Demanded

But whether the treaty of alli-
ance and the Treaty Of Versailles
be rejected, amended materially or
accepted as the President asks that
they shall be accepted, it seems to
me that we are doomed to pass
rapidly, are actually passing, from
world policies founded upon ideal
ism to those based upon realism.
The Italians and the Rumanians
have very frankly disclosed their
total unwillingness to sacrifice ter
ritory or security to any general
scheme Of pacification and good
feeling. No sacrifice was asked Of
the British, but in advance they
announced that they would not
make any surrender in the one direc-
ton where it might be asked, name
ly, in the matter of the "freedom
of the seas"
So far the French and the Poles
have been asked to make great sac
rifices, asked by President Wilson
in the name of world peace, and
both have consented, but with mis-
givings and against the wishes Of
many Frenchmen and Poles. But
now it becomes clear that the French
and the Poles alone Of the European
nations, one on the Vistula, the
other on the Rhine, have given up
security, while America seems by no
means ready to accept the doctrines
which, at the Presidents behest,
France and Poland accepted. In ad-
dition, the security promised each
in the league of nations and in the
Franco American British alliance
begins to seem insubstantial, to say
the least.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Got What They Wanted,
Did az They Pleased

Paris, therefore, having told the
kumanians not to 10 to Budapest,
and then, when they disobcyed, to
yet out Of Budapest, ended by re-
'apsinx into painful silence, rather
ridjcnlously broken by protests
against Rumanian evacuation of
Budapest, which might be followed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

by return Of Bolshevism. So far
as the Rumanians were concerned,
they got what they wanted, they did
as they pleased, and no one has yet
found way to punish them or to
deprive them Of territory actually in
their possession but not awarded
them by the Paris Conference.
Logically enough, Italy read in
the Rumanian episode-in which she
certainly played at least a friendly
part-the real solution to her own
difficulties. Her troops occupied
Fiume and certain Dalmatian ports
claimed by the Italians as we'll. But
there we're Allied troops there, also.
After many months, following Mr..
Wilson'S famous Paris appeal to the
Italian people, it was clear that the
whole Italian nation, the radicals
quite as unanimously as the conser-
, natives, insisted that Fiume should
be Italian.
All the hope of acquiring title to
Fiume through negotiations was at
an end. Mr.. Wilson could not re-
cede from his position of the spring,
because he had affirmed the question
to be moral before it was political.
But, impossible as was the task of
acquiring title with American con-
sent, there was nothing in the way
Of actually completing Italian pos
session save the reserves Of the Ital-
ian government, which feared that
an overt act might lead to the denial
to Italy Of the loans and other as
sistance terribly needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Italy a Rebel
Against Paris Conference

Fiume, like Budapest, is an Incl
dent Of worldwide concern. 1t is a
natural and consecutive step. 1t re-
veals Italy, following the Rumanian
precedent, rebel against the moral
and the political authority asserted
by the Paris Conference. 1t dis
closes great power resolved to fol-
low It's own policies, consult its own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
No Nation Ready to
Try TO Expcl Italy

Now, it seems perfectly clear that
Italy will keep Fiume. She has it.,
the whole nation is resolved upon
retaining it, and there is no one of
the nations represented at Paris
no concert Of nations-ready to be-
gin a brand new war in order to ex-
pei Italy from an Italian town, al
belt the town which is the natural
sea gate for the southern Slavs.
There was no one ready to take up
arms to drive the Rumanians out of
Bessarabia; there will be no one
to drive the Rumanians out of the
Banat if they make good their
threats and take the Torontal, al
lotted to Serbia at Paris.
Again, will there be any one to
discipline Greece if she proceeds to
occupy that portion Of Thrace which
the Paris Conference cannot make
up it's mind to give her, although it
has subtractcd it from Bulgaria?
At the very least, l should not be
surprised to see the Greeks try out
the matter before many days. Why
shouldn't they? Their claim to this
portion of Thrace is several thou
sand years old and stands the rig
orous test Of the fourteen points
quite as we'll as Fiume.
But the case of Greece is relative
ly minor. The world will possibly
worry along with Hellenic troops in
Dedeagatch, as the world endured
the temporary stay Of Bulgarian
troops in the same region. AS far
as France and Great Britain are
concerned, they will welcome such a
solution, for the United States is
the only quarter in which the Bulga1
has any friends, and President Will
son is the sole opponent to the Paris
proposal to give all Of Thrace tc
the Greeks. What is really impor-
! tant now is the effect Of the Fiume
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

absorption Of the Saar Basin and
find adequate justification for per-
manent occupation of the left bank
Ct the Rhine; such a course will, in
the end, have the same support In
France as d'Annunzio's Fiumc vent
ure has enlisted in Italy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Recent Startling
Coup at Fiu1ne
by d'Annunzio
aManOeuVre
Planned With
knowledge of
Rome Ministry
By Frank H. Si1nonds

"HE exploit Of d'Annunzio at
Fiume has recalled for the
Il whole world that equally
brilliant page in Italian his
tory filed with the story Of the ad-
venture Of Garibaldi and his Thou
sand, when they set out from Quartz,
almost sixty years ago, on that ex-
petition which gave Italy her first
real foretaste Of unity.
The circumstances are hardly
dissimnar. Before Garibaldi set
out, the King and the great architect
Of Italian unity, Cavour, knew Of the
plan. The attack upon a friendly
state, the kingdom Of Naples, itself
under the protection Of the Euro
pean concert, at least theoretically,
has a strong resemblance to the
present attack upon Jugo-Slavia.
Moreover, as England looked with
undisguised satisfaction at the gal
liant elimination of so long and brave
an effort on the part Of the Italians
to obtain unity, not a few French
men, probably a certain number of
Britons, regard the new incident
with approval.
The truth Of the matter must now
begin to appear to the American
people, as It has long been clear in
Europe. In so far as the Treaty of
Versailles has done violence to the
nationalistic aspirations Of the vari-
Gus nations united against Germany
it has become a dead letter less
than six months after it was signed
and before it has been ratified either
ny France or the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

a dupe Of a maneuvre which has
deceived no one on the other side
Of the Atlantic. Moreover, dan
nunzio was a particularly available
leader for such venture, since he
had actually forced ~the reluctant
Italian government into the war on
the Allied side in May, 1915, and
there was due him the gratitude of
the statesmen and public of the
Allied nations, for whom Italy's en-
trance, at the very moment of the
great Russian defeat at the Duna-
jec, was almost a life-saving affair.
Accordingly, d'Annunzio took
Fiume, the Italian officers in his path
way politely effaccd themselves and
the Italian nation made no attempt
to disguise its approval and enthus-
assn. The government, which could
not have lived a moment had it
undertaken to use force, and as GER
tainly could not have commanded
any Italian force to attack Fiume,
politely turned the task over to the
Allies, after certain delays not dis
advantageous to d'Annunzio.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Rumanians F1out
Mandates of Conference

A few weeks ago the Rumanians
demonstrated by their march to
Budapest their supreme contempt
for the mandate of the Paris Con-
ference. Not only did they go to
Budapest against orders, but they
have remained there ever since. At
the same time they have continued
to hold the territory occupied by
their soldiers, but forbidden them by
the Conference of Paris, notably in
the case Of Bessarabia, a province
three times as big as Alsace-Lor-
raine.
The Rumanian episode, as I
pointed out at the time, was mani
testify only beginning. Rumania,
in going to Budapest, was really
making the test case for Italy and
for all the other nations. which re-
garded the Paris Conference and it's
decisions with resentment. 1t was,
IN fact, matter Of life or death
for the Paris Conference to bring
Rumania to terms, because, If Ru-
mania were able to f1out it, to deny
its authority and proceed on her
own way, then there would be no
obstacle in the pathway Of other ma
tons.
But apart from notes, warnings,
threats Of economic pressure, which
seem hardly to have been made
good, the Conference Of Paris could
90 nothing. French sentiment
would not permit the employment Of
French troops against the Ruma.
mans; Italy undeniably advised Ru.
mania to mako the test. AS fo1
Britain and the United States
neither country was in mood tc
make war in the Balkans-and rea,
war, too-for Rumania can put al
least 100000 veteran troops in the
he!1, with an equally large trained
force of reserves.