The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
Chances Are Slim.

finances Are Slim.
If a Republican president Is elected
in 1920, then very obviously Mr.. Will
son wouldn't be appointed special am
bassador. On the whole, his chances
OF being an official of the United States
government after 1921 are slim, and
only as an official acting in behalf of a
government could he be identified with
the league Of nations, He might be
selected as umpire in a dispute or might
be asked occasionally to sit on a court
or arbitration by foreign countries in
controversy with each other, but Wood
row Wilson will have no more to do
with the league Of nations after his
term of office in the White House ex-
pires thar will Lloyd George or NJ,
Clemenceau or Signor Orlando the mo-
ment the cabinets over which they re-
spectirely preside are overturned.
The personnel of the executive Coun-
Gil of the league, wherein the United
States, Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan will have one delegate each, will
be subject to frequent change. So far
as all the delegates are concerned, they
Will do business only with officially &C
credited representatives of governments.
That is why the executive council is not
to have a permanent president. There
Will always have to be a chairman, but
he will be selected from among the
premlers or ambassadors who compose
the council, and he will be chosen from
among those who actually attend the
periodical meetings, 1t is quite unlikely
that the president of the United States
will ever be chosen unless he goes tC
Europe. Mr., Wilson will come back tC
America Immediately upon the signing
of the treaty in Versailles, and before
the league can become effective the
treaty would have to be ratified by tn,
United States senate, Unless Mr.. vii
son made a special trip to Europe again
to attend the first meeting, he would
have no opportunity of getting the TEN
porary honor Of presiding at a meeting
of the executive council of the league
AS for a permanent job with a larg,
salary n a lot of ceremony an
plaudits for the remainder of his life
which fantastic idea Of Mr., Wilson'S
ambition seems to have gained consider,
able ground in many quarters in Amer,
lea, particularly among opponents of the
league of nations who dislike things
Wilsonian-it Is not perhaps amiss {
remove one of these alleged evils of tn,
league Of nations plan.
Mr.. Wilson'S single ambition Is tC
return home with a treaty Of peace
that Furnishes Germany and creates {
league of nations to prevent any otheI
country from doing In the future thu
said in his New York speech, there will
be plenty of glory for all the men VIII
help conclude a peace treaty that reall,
makes peace in EuropeS And, notwith,
standing the glowing descriptions o
Mr.. Wilson debating to Europe which
United States, the president Is by NJ
means the whole show at the peace con
ference. There are others-like LloyC
George, Clemenceau n VeniZelos, Mr.
Wilson, to be sure, is a dominating in
fluence. He Is a vital force for speedy
| "a o-l Atna l. lnttanf, ,,t,,
atoms among the allies. He is recog
nized by his colleagues as having thu
confidence of the people Of Europe tc
an extraordinary degree, The masses
truly revere him as the exponent of de
mocracy. They respect him for his
bold championship Of the rights Of the
common man, but they pay tribute tc
him as the elected executive Of a a
ton that saved Europe from disaster
in 1918. They applaud the United States
Of America When they applaud Mr.. viii
son, for he carries the symbols OF
power.
senate Is to be composed of a hostile
political party, the fact that. as presi-
dent, Mr.. Wilson is given by the con
stitution of the United States he RICH
to conduct the foreign policy OF the
country and to negotiate treaties makes
him the ambassador Of the United
States, and as such he is given the
same respected attention as any Other
ambassador when he says to a foreign
power; MY government instructs me
to approve or d%isapprove, etc. Mr.. viii
son is the government of the United
States so far as foreign premiers are
concerned. And my conversations witt
some of the principal delegates in Paris
lead me to conclude that in the immedi-
ate future European statesmen will con
tinue to deal with President Wilson a,
the head of the American government
and they will not take seriously the
notion that a treaty signed by the
president and the American mission tc
negotiate peace and the governments
of Europe and Asia will ever be re-
jected by a single body OF Legislators
in the United States.
Copyright, 1919, by the New York
Evening Post, lnc)