The sun., 1919-09-22
WEAKNESSES SEEN
IN BULGARIAN PACT
Leaves vital Problems I'm
solved, in Opinion of In
terested Observers.
TREATY CALLED LENIENT
Nation Left Free to Unite
With Turks for Future
Balkan Aggressions.
TREATY CALLED LENIENT
ny LAURENCE HILLS.
Stag Correspondent Of The SUI.
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PARIS, Sept. z1.-It cannot be said
that the Peace Conference has added
10 its laurels by the Bulgarian treaty.
Comment on It here is mostly unfavor-
able; it is being attacked for its lem
lency to the Bulgars. who seem to have
como out better than the Germans and
Austrians If the fundamentals of the
three treaties be compared
Then. too, a Peace Conference that II
was hoped at the beginning would set
tie all important problems is criticised
now for postponing questions that go
to the very heart of the situation, like
Thrace, the Dobrudja and the Adriatic,
but what is most significant Is that the
Bulgarian treaty accentuated curren.
criticism OF the Peace Conference
which for some time has been running
here against the Americans
Europe does not discriminate between
the policies of President Wilson and
those Of the American people. Its COM,
mentators speak constantly of the
Americans when In reality the policies
which they criticise are those dictated
solely by the President and have not
the support or sanction OF Congress.
Thus It is the Americans collectively
who are being held to blame for UNI
settled bundaries like those In Thrace
and on the Adriatic; for the general
sottness of the Bulgarian terms and for
the general conditions which have fol-
lowed the labors of the conference on
Balkan problems. in which the two
chief nations there, Rumania and Serbia,
are unable to form governments and
ahaup az Va V1n ci ne eli fnor f1,a
Austrian treaty, which the other nations
signed ten days ago.
U. s. influence Negative.
In fact, the net result SO far of the
participation Of America in making a
treaty with a nation with which she
was not at war appears to have been
decidedly negative, viewed from the
standpoint of American interests. The
treaty is not any more satisfactory from
the European viewpoint. Everybody
knows that questions like those of
Thrace and the Adriatic would have
been settled had Americas voice not
been raised although whether the settle
ments would have been good ones or not
only the future could have determined.
Greece, Rumania and Serbia, regard
ing the Bulgarian treaty as a bad piece
OF work, are likely to scheme to undo II
and the plan of general Balkan concilia-
ton appears to be further away than
ever from realization. The Echo de
Ports remarks:
The more the peace conference null
tiplies its text ana the more they are
examined the clearer one sees that he Is
IN the presence Of a beautiful facade be-
hind which everything yet remains to
constructed, with the workmen al
ready tendinor 20 diaupGta opd etviLa ba
fore the body of the edifice has been
made to correspond to this FACADE"
This failure to bring about concilia-
ton in the Balkans is regarded by many
here as an indication of what max be
expected should the League of Nations
ever try to function. If the Council
Of Five in session nine months failed to
settle these problems and sees its wishes
defed. as in the case of Rumania, why