The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-08
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uc CuSliSuIudu was nearer 10 SuCu
an adjustment before the world war
than any other European nation. He
hopes that the Leag of Nations will
place the United States as the manda-
tory Of the great powers in CONSTANT
nople, in Asia Minor and in Central
Africa. His ambition is not to take
German territory, but to prevent Ger
man territory from returning to Ger
many, or becoming for him a buden
beyond his resources.
Needs Americas Help
Very frankly, therefore, Great Brit
ain at Paris Is using the league Of ma
tions and the association of America
/ to supply guarantees and buttresses
for the immediate and not too encour-
aging future. She feels herself not
strong enough to add to her burdens.
i so colossal on the imperial side be-
fore the war, which in itself exhaust
ed such an alarming fraction of her
resources in men and in money. She
feels that alone among the powers in
the world the Americans could take
over a portion of these burdens with
out threatening British safety.
! Therefore, from the first moment
after I reached Europe, l heard on
all sides from Englishmen the same
| formula. 1t was the duty Of Americans
to square their principles with their
words; to apply the humanity and
! idealism which was instinct in Mr..
/ Wilson's speeches; to stand ready to
do our part in the world, to bring or
der and justice at once and liberation
at the proper time to the oppressed
| nations.
/ Guard Waste Regions
| The British view Of the league OF ma
lions which will prevail has already
envisaged a system of manufactures
by which the respective great powers
undertake the guardianship of waste
or unhappy regions Of the earth, res
ponsible to the league of nations on
the one hand. but authorized to ad-
minister the regions of the other.
| Now someone must take up these
manufactures. The United States,
through Mr.. Wilson, has steadily OPP
posed the whole series OF bargains,
secret treaties, special arrangements,
etcetera. made before we entered the
war, which would assign most OF these
regions to several great powers; but
I If these are to go by the board, then
by virtue of Mr.. Wilson's formula ap-
piled by the Paris Conference, France
Is not to have Syria, neither England
nor France is to have Armenia, neither
England nor France nor Italy is to
have the German colonies In Africa:
then the whole question is thrown open
again and nothing is more certain
than that Europe will call upon us to
accept responsibility for some of these
foundlings.
One Of the TrIumphs
| Now, British policy in all this has
worked with great astuteness. 1t has
analysed what Mr. Wilson really want
ed as contrasted with what people
thought he wanted; 1t has brought it's
ablest and it's wisest and it's noblest
and its wickedest men to Paris. 1t
has accepted Mr.. Wilson's League of
Nations; it has Practically penetrated
: it and has in degree persuaded Mr..
Wilson that what he really wanted is
the thing that is going to emerge. and
this is one of the real triumphs of the
Peace Conference.
But it is plain that there are many
difficulties in the way. The first peril
that the President might make de-
mands which the British government
could not assent to, has disappeared.
The President has shown himself
reasonable, conciliatory, lacking even
In any plan of his own clearly thought
out, thrown back upon the defensive
for certain ideas, and thus brought to
accept system which in the main
follows British ideas; but will this
idea and this plan be accepted by the
United States senate? Will the senate
consent to adopt Armenia or Gamer
oun or Liberia? Will the senate agree
that the United States become manda-
tory for the League of Nations any
where, thus breaking up its ancient
policy and abandoning its ume-honored
traditions?
| Depends on Senate
| II the senate does not then all ar
rangements up to date at the Paris
Peace Conference go by the board and
the League of Nations as it will be
worked out will unquestionably be a
guarantee against war in the future
within limits. 1t will have a beneficial
effect upon the world and the princi.
pies expressed in it will have much
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