The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-09
PEACE TERMS ARE
Of MOST BENEFIT
TO ANGLO-SAXONS

TO ANGLO-SAXONS
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spect Of the Rhine frontier in the
treaty Of peace, left still unsettled the
age long problem of the defense OF
France against Germany.
As to- Poland.
In the matter OF Poland, U work
Is even more in the nature OF patch-
ing. We have given to Poland Posen
and Upper Silesia, which We're hers OF
right. We have given her West Prus-
sian territory, which was Polish, u
we have not provided her with a Ger,
tain exit on the sea, We have created
a pReposterous corridor which no Ger
mar will ever permit to endure pa
tiently, and we have denied POLAND
the actual ownership OF the door az
the end OF the corridor, which Is Dan
zig.
Thus, in two very essential matters,
we have INDUCED in dangerous COM
promises which leave the old sources
of international rivalry and to plague
the peace Of Europe for a long time 10
come, and in each case in ~depr1Vlhg
cur enemy, Germany, of territory, we
kave denied to our friends, France and
Poland, possession of that territory on
such terms as would make defense
easy or permanent acquisition prob
The solution Of the italian question
is not yet accomplished, as ] write THIS
article, but nothing is more certain
than that II it be settled at all II VIII
he settled by one more compromise OF
the Danzig order, which viii leave
both parties resolved to reopen 1t the
moment, they are able TO fight, I'M
o~uestionably we shall have recourse TO
that same method of the league of ma
tons, decentralization, which makes
the Saar and Dauzig enduring mueh
to the peace Of the world.
Further than this, SO far as the Ru-
manians are concerned, and so far as
the Poles are concerned, on their east
ern frontier, we have as yet taken no
step. But. we are making tentative
plans for a compromise which Will
leave the Hungarians and tho Ru-
manians, the Poles and the Ukranians
awaiting the opportunity OF resumiug
war.
And failure in this direction has a
single clear significance, The prob-
lem, perhaps the supreme problem, be-
| fore the confertnc OF peace was--so
| far as the continent Of Europe was
c~oncerned-so to mold the new states
and so to fortify the liberated people
in the east that Western Europe would
| find as a support>against any new Ger
man attack sixty millions of allies In
Poland, Czecho- Slovakia, Rumania and
Jugo-Slavia!
Left Way Open.
In failing to do this we have IN
fact left the way open to Germany, tc
organize Russia and rebuild Mfttel'
europa. We have erected only a fragile
| and hopeless Poland between seventy
| millions OF Germans, with the supreme
necessity of beginning new industrial
expansion and one hundred twenty
| millions of Russians, with the riches.
undeveloped country In the world In
! viting, demanding what Germany car
| give,
We have chosen, despite the warn
ings of many continental statesmen
to resign Russia to Germany, just al
we have In the east SO dealt with the
| German colony in China as to recog-
nize Japanese ascendency in the east
Two great compromises in the peace
of Paris are the compromise offered tt
Germany in the shape Of indefensibl'
Poland, which can not bar the Ger
man pathway into Russia, and thu
compromise Of the western powers per
hitting Japan to oxganize China.
We have then made a patched-uI
peace, so far as the mainland of Eu'
Irope and of Asia is concerned. Now
In the second place, we A~nglo-SaXons
British as well as ourselves, have form
ulated the league of nations, in which
British and American hanGiWork II
combined. This league OF nations con
forms in all respects An~glo-Saxon ne
| HaqSifiaa and daaipau MofthaF GTnQ
Britain nor ourselves now has a grea
n%eighbor whose propinqulty carries
constant menace to our safety. Neithe
Great Britain nor ourselves, either TO
reason Of security or economic prog
ress, desires the territory OF any othe
nation nor has any difference with an,
other nation which we can not settle
given our ocean frontiers and our com
bined naval supremacy-through tn
league Of nations machinery which W
ourselves invented.
The league of nations covenant |
nothing more or less than a formula
ton OF articles Of partnership betweei
the United states and Great Britain
We and the British have made treat
Of peace. We and the British hav
dominated this peace conference at a.
times. So far as the United States
speaking solely for its re~presentatio'
here in Paris, there never was an
sympathetic recognition Of France
Iclaims or French conditions, nor wa
there disposition on the part of LlOy,
George to recognize these claims unit
he was forced to change his directiot
by a very strong protest in Great Brit
ain, following the unmistakable up
heaval in France.
Position Peculiar.
With respect to France, the British
position was and remained peculiar. Flo
all future time the eastern frontiers o
France and Belgium will be the from
tier OF Great Britain. Had German.
reached the channel in 1914 she woul,
have closed the port of London an,
ultimately bombaEded the city. as sh
did Paris. II Germany ever again seek
to march westward the same peril stil
threatens Great Britain, and unles
France makes the same resistance tn
danger for England will be acute.
As many British leaders saw, an,
as Lloyd George did not see, it wa
essential for Great Britain that Franc
should emerge from this war stron
and able to defend herself. The recog
milton of this fact explains the chang
Of British policy at Paris during tn
conference Of peace, and supplies tn
any case to come to the aid of Franc
II she Is again attacked by Germany
In this respect England has but imi
tated the policy toward Germany he
statesmen adopted in olden times to
ward France when France threatene
to become the dominant power on tn
continent.
Thus France was and remains in
real sense a, partner Of the Unite
States and Great Britain, but wherea
Great Britain and the United State
are for the future bound by q com
mon acceptance Of the league OF ma
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