Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06

visits, and from the Russian point of
view betrayed an ally to domestic
revolution and then recognized the
independence of component parts of
Russia? I can say for my own part
that eminent Russians with whom L
talked in Paris expressed far more
bitterness toward Great Britain and
France than toward Germany.
japanese Hostility Seen.
Nor can any American mistake the
latent hostility of the Japanese to
the western powers. which was hardly
hidden at Paris. The Japanese felt
quite justly that Britain. with her
colonies. although still an ally OF
Japan, was rapidly marching toward
an alignment with the United States
which would mean a common policy
in the Pacific, designed in the end to
rehabilitate China and curb Japanese
ambitions. Americas policies in the
far east, the association of America,
Australia and Canada in a common OPP
position to Japanese colonization. In
d common insistence upon the stigma
of the yellow race as evidenced in
the discussion of the emigration prob
lem in the league of nations debaLeS,
all combined to arouse a japanese
sentiment which no one in Paris mis-
understood
Such men are the materials out of
which Germany will seek to construct
new world alliance to counterbal-
ance the association between the
United States. Great Britain and
France. Concomitant with this strain
ing to erect new combination or
pow ers will be the effort to undermine
the solidarity of the existing alliance
between the three nations which COM
bined to defeat Germany in the last
war. Nor can any one mistake the
fact that Germany has at least fair
chance of success growing out or the
peculiar circumstances that l nave
narrated. If Germany desires her Po-
lish provinces back. Russia Will some
day ask for hers and seek to regain
Finland. the Ukraine. Lithuania, Is
thonia. Austria and Hungary continue
to bemoan their surrenders to the
Jugo -Slavs, Bulgaria still clamors for
Macedonia and Italy will never pa
tiently consent to see strong Slav
power grow up along the east coast
of the Adriatic.
League of Nations.
Now, in this situation, what of the
league of nations? The answer is
clear The league of nations. from
the German standpoint. is that asso-
citation of Great Britain. France and
the United States, which, dominating
the Paris conference has dictated and
will now undertake to impose the
treaty of Versailles upon Germany. 1t
is the guarantor of the treaty which
no German accepts. it is the organiza
ton which has undertaken to bestow
Posen and East Prussia upon Poland.
and deprive Germany Of Dantzig and
the Sarre basin.
For Austria it is the alliance which
L.
a nation of 100000 900 to a third-rate
country of barely 100000. For Hun
gary it is the alliance of western ma
tions which gave Pennsylvania. the
Banat and Croatia and it's adjoining
Slav land, to the Rumanians and the
sion. For the Bulgarians it is the force
which preserves Serb rule in Mace
donia, which year ago was safely in
Bulgar hands. For Italy it is the
combination of the western nations
which has challenged Italian claims
to Fiume. given it's support to Slav
aspiratio which conflict with ItaI-
ian from Trieste to San Juan de
Medua; to Greek possession of Smyrna
and Hellenic aspirations in Aegean
Islands now held by Italian garri-
sons.
Neither abe Germans. the Austrians
nor the Hungarians, to say nothing
mentS of the Paris conference which
deprive them of territories long held
by them as more than decisions to
be endured while the powers making
them retain the force to impose them.
Italy regards the league of nations
powers which have rejected Italy's
claims and i'll repaid Italy's services
and sacrifices in the war. Therefore
by none of these peoples is the
league of nations accepted in fact:
the acceptance today is an accept
ance imposed by necessities existing
at the moment. but likely to pass
within a certain time.
But if the German policy will OBJ
viously be to capitalize the dissat-
iSfcation in the nations which have
suffered justly but terribly by the
of Italy. to stimulate the rivalries,
the jealousies, the misunderstanding
between the three nations which have
won the war. made the peace, con-
stitute the single solid guarantee for
world peace in the future. is it less
plain how imperative is the need that
the United States, Great Britain and
France shall continue to march to-
gether until the menace of new
German attack is passed-and pass it
will if the new nations we have called
into existence can have time to or
ganize and add their strength to
ours as guarantee of world order?
Americas Concern.
But what concern has America in
all this?" Again and again since /
returned from Paris / have heard the
same question asked. Well. four
years ago-three years ago-the same
question was asked with respect to
the world war. yet in the end we
were dragged into the struggle under
conditions which very nearly in
volved US in losing war. We should
not be less, but more, affected by
any new German attack We shall not