The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-20
HOUSE THAT
 PEACE BUILT
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 1 in Nationalist riots, inspired by fan atfcs and Turkish agents.
 Australia gave herself to sporadic outbreaks, one minister being ston- ed, and in another territory the off cers of government being forced to flee for their lives.
 On the Polish, German, Russian frontiers a nest of war ensued, with Ukrainians fighting first against the Bolshevi1i, and at last split on both sides, with Poles fighting Germany and Ukrainians, with Bessarabians fighting Roumanians, Poles and Rus sians, with Let's, Esthonians, Ruth l enians and all the other tribesmen l of the Baltic on the warpath, each against two and som atimes three foes. First the battlehne would face Russian Bolshevisn. then in a turn of the news, it would be against each other.
 i China in the Orient gave itself to : resentment of Japanese methods, and riots ensued. Korea rose against Japanes oppression, and repression with bloodshed followed.
 Round the world the tide of con- f1ict and angry dispute ragged; and this was the first year of peace. Melting down the rhetorical ex- trava gance with which the repre- sentatives and spokesmen of the sev- eral interested powers enwrapped their motives, the demands of the chief Allies were as follows: The United States, the only purely altruistic nation at the board, want ed safeguard against future cataely- sms, as far as was humanly possible, and an interpretation of Presid ant Wilson's Fourteen Points. with es- pecial reference to the liberties of small peoples. She asked no territory and no indemnity
 Great Britain asked a cash indem- nifty, share of the surrendered Ger man fleet, German Southwest Africa, definite sphere of coa.roI in that part of Asia Minor liberated from Turkey, and friendly say-so in the future of Persia. For Australia she desired some of the German island possessions in the Pacific. All of these practically she got, although the division of Asia Minor is still obscure, and the whole treatment of the Turkish problem is yelled in diplomatic vagueness.
 France wanted firaL A1sace and Lorraine, then the Saar Basin, and, if possible, the Rhine as her frontier. Also she wanted the Kamerun and other land in Africa, a mandate for Syria, including possibly Arabia; she wanted large caah indemnity and a share in the German fleet She got important rights in tho Saar Basin. was denied the new Rhine frontier and is uncertain about her share in Asia Minor, but otherwise obtained her demands.
 Italy wanted the mountains of the Balkan mainland, known as the Dal- matian coast, for her frontier, thus making the Adriatic Sea an Italian lake. She wanted Italy Irredenta. or 1talian-inhabited country around as far as Trieste, restored to her from Austria. She wanted concessions in Asia Minor, continued ownership of the Greek Dodecanese Islands and a share in the indemnity, together with German ships. She obtained all most all she asked, except for F1- une and some of the Dalmatian coast and what she didn't get has since ben seized for her by Gabrile D'Annunzio.
 Japan wanted holdings in the Shantung Peninsula in China. and got them. She wanted recognition of her especial position with reference to the rest of the Orient, and got it. She wanted the northern groups of former German Islands in the Pa c1f1c and got them (eXcept the is land of Yap.)
 Greece wanted her old territory restored, which means taking Mon tenegrin territory. Serbia wished and has begun to absorb Montenegro, Roumania asks for Bessarab whicT, hates the Roumanians ard all their works. Bulgaria asked for territory she lost in the Second Balkan War.
 Armenia, Arabia, Lebanon and all so Syria proper, Bessara bia, Finland. Esthonia, Ruthenia, Ukrainia. Pc land, echo-Slovakia, Jugo Slavia and Magyar Hungary asked recogni- tion as independent peoples and where their ambitions did not con tllct with the purpose of the major powers they got it.
 Premier Lloyd George later des- cribed this mammoth discussion at the Conference as being conducted while wild men screamed through the key hole, and the Illustration was apt, for evry creed, dogma, belief. theory, interest class and point of view had it's chosen and self-elected representatives on hand. adding to the tufnult- And for every voice up- raised in Paris, a million far more distant from Paris joined issue
 During the course of the Confer ence several secret treaties were bar ed, and especially the one between Japan and the European Allies, re- specting Japan's price, and the one between Italy and her Allies, re- specting her price, ana between the several European Allies with refer ence to their price in Asia Minor.
 These treaties had the effect of n:l1- flying all effort to sustain the Amer ican ideals of world justice. and re- suited in the great popular outcry against secret diplomacy.
 The Treaty at last was formulated, after delay on delay, and disappoint- ment on disappointment and, s.I11e general o-inion declared it to be severe treaSy the world took hope from President Wilson's clear victory Obtaining the incorporation with
 treaty itself, of the Covenant of he League of Nations.
 Since that day Great Britain, Ja- pan and Italy have practically rati- fled, France has taken all pre1imin-