The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-02-03
SECRET PACT
OF THE ALLIES
CRASPINC IF
CARRIED OUT
Noted Political Writer Asserts
Treaties as Hostile 40
z kaiser's Plans
AMERICANS ASTONISHED
AT CLAIMS EXPOSED
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Feeling of Apprehension
Aroused as Early as 1917 by
Statement Of Carson
AMERICANS ASTONISHED
AT CLAIMS EXPOSED
BY Amos Pinchot.

Washington, Feb. The secret
treaties formulated by the allies bes
fore America entered the war would,
If carried out, constitute peace
settlement as grasping and as hosf1te
to world security as were the plans
Of the Hohenzollerns Themselves ..
European liberals argue that II
such a settlement were consummated
at the peace table, the name OF Yer
sailles wound go down In history
linked with that OF Brest-Litovsk.
They say that-not for the sake Of
Germany. but for the safety OF the
allies and the United States-the
people should aid in averting such
catastrophe by calling for prompt
abandonment of the secret treaties.
Americans Astonished.
Americans who have taken at face
value the statements of foreign goy-
ernments, to the effect that the wars
sole objects were democracy and per-
manent peace, have been astonished
at many of the territorial and trade
claims which are being made by poll
ticians in the victorious countries.
Students Of international relations
dTe dllGLSO Lll1S SACSO4 4PSAASASAOAS -
not seem to realize that by taking
away Germany's colonies, depriYing
her Of her West Rhine provinces,
stripping her Of potash, coal and ore,
destroying her foreign commerce, and
then ssaddling on her, in this Grip
pied state, a mammoth indemnity,
they will not be guaranteeing peace
but, on the contrary, forcing Ger
many into offensive alliances with
other nations which may become as
serious a menace to peace as was the.
German empire before It's defeat.
Carson's Speech. d..
This feeling of apprehension was
aroused as early as the summer Ot
when Sir Edward Carson,
5peaking az a member of the British
cabinet, said that peace was impos-
sibIe until "the allies have driven
Germany back of the Rhine and an
nexed her territory from Cologne,
Coblenz, Mainz and Mannheim to-
Belgium, luxembourg. Lorraine and
Alsace" Since then this imperialis-
tic policy has grown more and more
definite, especially since Clemenceau,
Orlando, Sonnino and Pichon openly
favored it. On the other hand Brit
ish leader voiced the attitude of both
British and French liberals toward
this policy when he said: Mon
German Europe is not going to spend
the remainder of the duration OF this
planet sitting on Germany's head. A
head with the brains OF 60,000,O00
people on it takes more sitting On
than we shall have time for"
Secret Memorandum.
Carson's statment, just quoted, is
taken from secret memorandum
entered into just two years ago. The
Rhine boundary he mentions ac-
curately follows that agreed to in the
secret note Of the Russian foreign
minister to the French ambassador,
under date of Feb. /, 1917. This
note says: in part, as follows: H..
1.-THE boundaries will be extended
at least to the limits Of the former
principality of Lorraine, and will be
fixed under the direction of the
French government AT the same
time strategic demands must De
taken into consideration so as to in
clude within the French territory the
whole of the industrial iron basin Of
Lorraine and the whole Of the In
dustrial basin Of the Valley OF the
Saar. -eE<
"The territory on the left bank Of
the Rhine not included in the COM
position Of French territory shall
form an autonomous and neutral gov
ernment, and shall be occupied by
French armies until such time as the
enemy governments completely full
fill all the conditions and guarantees
in the treaty of peace
Further Provisions.
In addition to the demands just
mentioned, secret memoranda pro-
vide that England and Italy are to
have extensions of territory along the
Red Sea, France large coast strip
Of Syria, England Bagdad and the
ports of Harpha and Akka, France
a share of Asiatic Turkey, to be de-
fined by future agreement. The GEN.
trail powers are to. lose the Trentino,
Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Tran
sylvania, Bohemia and Galicia; Bull
garia is to confirm the Dobrudja to
Roumania. l have already spoken of
the exclusion of German trade in
China, which, is deadening blow to
German commerce, and of zEngland's s.
seizure Of the oil fields in southern