South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-12


question arise between them that can
be settled in judicial fashion. in some such
manner as questions between states OF our own
union settled"
Nothing very anti-Brtsh or fearful of Britain
about that Indeed it seems quite pro-Brtish
and anticipate that had the colonel been alive
recently when Sen. johnson joined forces with
the German-serving anti-League forces in that
campaign being waged here on American soil by
the Friends of Irish Freedom; when within
shot of Boston large Irsh-Arnerican population
Johnson declared that the Englishmen who
wrote Art. < designedly committed the United
States to suppress rebellion in any part of the
British empire, well, we anticipate that MIR.
johnson might have heard from Mr.. Roosevelt
and that in keeping with his style the Oyster Bay
sage might have called his former running mate
malicious and unmitigated liar. same he
christened Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
Johnson, too. just what Roosevelt might
have called HIM. Article x was written by an
American-Woodrow Wilson.-and was more
nearly dictated by Theodore Roosevelt and Viii
liam Howard Taft than by any other living souls
CURELY Roosevelt's faith in British democ-
~ racy; the faith which caused him to say
shortly before his DEATH when it was proposed
that the United States should build navy equal
to Britain's. that:
"The British navy is probably the most potent
instrumentality for peace in the world. and
should seek To supplement it rather than rival it,
and Britain and America should work together"
well, if he felt that way toward Britain. he would
hardly countcnance the anti-Brtsh slurs that
going the rounds in his name now.
Which is suggestive of quite another
which the Oyster Bay man might have to pick
with his late interpreter" if he were here to
pick it.
1t involves the Californians attitude toward
the Paris treaty proper; weeping first for Shan
L. 81. Ia Al
many grabbed it, with William McKinley's
acquiescence.
Fact of the matter is that had Roosevelt writ
ten the Paris treaty it could scarcely have more
nearly resembled what he advocated for it and
longer ago than last Lafayette day in New
York. Of course. had he written it. it would be
perfect, but nevertheless all that he proposed is
In it,-Shantung included.
He was critcising Prest Wilson's fourteen
points glittering generalities and de-
manded more dehniteness which he undertook to
furnish-and furnished with such prophetic
neatness, in the light of subsequent develop
ments. that it would seem to indicate that he
understood the president far better than he pre-
tended to.
viii
FOLLOW the Roosevetan points" and you
have the Paris treaty quite in toto-partic-
uary in far concerns League of Nations
administration of it. They are:
I. Serbia and Rumania must have restored
them what Bulgaria has taken from them
and the treaty provides for it.
?. Turkish empires must
both be broken up, all the subject peoples liber-
ated. and the Turk driven from Europe.
intend that German Magyar shall OPP
pressed by others. that they shall Cypress or
dominecr over Others
another treaty incorporation.
B. France must receive back AIsacc and
Lorraine, Belgium be restored and Unidentified,
Italian Austria be restored Italy
manian Hungary 10 Rumania,'-
every feature Of which the treaty has carried out.
f. THE heroic Czecho-SIovaks must be made
independent commonwealth likewise
southern Slays he united a great
JugoSlav commonwealth. with outlet to the
sea-
both of which were worked out in the Paris
treaty, the Fiume affair being the result of con-
ference determination that Jugo-Savia should
have that seaport-yet opponents to the treaty
and League seem to take sides with Italy and
against Roosevelt.
Poland q genuinely independent
monwealth must receive back Austrian and Prus-
sian Poland well Russian Poland, and have
her coast-line on the Raluc"-
serious undertaking on the part Of the peace
conference but worked out. Danzig being made
free city under the League of Nations which
is to enforce freedom of transportation while
Silesia must undergo a plebiscite-or referendum
election,-to ascertain whether Germany
Poland shall hold the connecting territory under
the rule of self-determnation.
8. Lithuana- Baltic provinces OF Russia
Ukrainia and Finland be guaranteed their
independence and no part Of the ancient Russian
empire under the German yoke shall be left
I'm subject to German influence Northern
schleswtg should back TO the Danes"-
all of which is subscribed to in the Paris treaty.