New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
League of Nations Would
Be Called Upon to Block
Flotation of Loan in
Any Allied Country
Supreme odyChallenged
Peace Council TO Strive to
Enforce Will by a Threat
to Make People |Ou,casts'
Ness Pork Tvi1x,.s
Special Cnbie Se7-vtce

Spcct0t Cdote Service
Copyright. 1878. New York Tribune 1nc.)
PARIS. Aug. 9.--Possibility that fu-
turc financial add would be refused
Rumonia by the United States as a
penalty for defiance Of the Supreme
Counci's demand for the evacuation
OF Budapest was expressed to-day by
one Of tic American peace delegates.
He said further that the authority Of
the lcasue Of nations might be invoked
to prevent the lotnton of q Rumanian
loan in any Allied country, regardless
Of whether the security seemed good.
The american delegate said that one
CT the duties Of the league would be
10 take care Of just such cases" It
was intmatcd that admission of a
Rumanian delegate to the seat of the
league at Geneva might be refused and
the power CT the league council to de-
clare an international blockade might
be brought to bear.
Supreme Body Challenged
Other means of meeting the Hunra-
r!a1 situation were under consider ra-
ton to-day, as members of the council
frankly admitted that the authority of
the supreme body had been CHALLENGED
and that unless effective measures
could be taken to enforce obedience to
AlNcd will the success Of any system
CT central international authority might
De considered endangered permanently
Lacking physical means of persua-
SION, even II its use were considered
advisable, the peace council will en-
deavor to enforce its will on the Ru-
manians by threatening to make the
country an "outcast" among the ma
tons.
Rumania is accused Of having acted
without asking any authorization from
Paris, of having deliberately refrained
from awaiting the arrival of the four
generals ordered p Budapest to as
sumo control Of the situation for the
peace conference, of haviog on her own
authority sought to impose & terribly
onerous armistice upon Hungary in
Substitution for that concluded on No..
vember 13 by General Franchct d'Es-
percy and, finally, of having made the
demands so excessive as to seriously
compromise Czecho- Slovak, Jugo-Slav
ana Italian interests.
Can Hold Out Six Months
1t is admitted that Rumania has suf
hclcnt food and supplies to maintain
thc present situation is rccognized.
council is in measure to blame for
the present situation, is recognized,
as the disarmament Of Hungary was
never enforced and no active steps
were taken to break up the soviet army.
which brought on the Rumanian inva-
sion by its declaration of war on Ru
mania.
me Rumanlan colony in Paris is
Juol'ant, insisting that the peace con-
ference deeply offended their country
ny according 1t the same treatment as
to The minority peoples Of Poland.
Czec ho-Slovakia and Jugo- o-Slavia.
The assertion in some Rumanian
quarters that Rumania was never an
tally" in the full sense Of the word. and
hence not responsible to the conference.
provokes amusement in American cir
ces, where it is recalled that Ruma-,
man representatives. seeking financial
aid from the United States-whcre they
have already borrowed $6,666 ,sG6.-al-
ways entered as their first argument
the statement that their country was
one of the Allied group.
Slavic Nations Roused
The Czecho- Slovak and Juco-Slav
represcn tatives here are Watching de-
vclopments with the gravcst anxiety.
Although the French government
realizes that to encourage Rumania IS
equivalent to playing with dynamite,
such influential newspapers as "Ie
Temps" and "Le Journal des DGbats"
are siding openly with the Rumanians
and urge that the Rumanian ultima
tum be allowed to stand. This atti-
tude provokes the Socialist "L'Human-
ite" to ask:
-."Admitting from the viewpoint Of
the older diplomacy that, in order to
preserve independent Hungary, it was
necessary to overthrow the soviet gov