The Washington herald., 1920-02-18

outcast and psriah Germany lodged in
purgatory for the ages. Naturally
enough, Lord Curzon, the personifica-
tion OF privilege and OF lsndgrabbing
imperialism. displacing Lord Rober;
Cecil, sat on NJ. Bourgeois' right hand.
Treaty Framers Net There.
President Wilson was not present,
nor was Col. House. or Gen. Smuts.
his most honored and most trusted
advisers and helpers in fashioning
the documents which the world will
long remember. In fact, there was
no one present who can claim to
have the slightest spiritual associs-
tion with the covenant. except Mr..
Venezelos, the Greek prime min
lister, who sat there in sackcloth and
ashes to do what amends he can for
having followed the American pro-
gram of idealism: Perhaps when
his amends bulk larger than they
do now. and a vote is needed in a
close contest, NJ. Nenezelos will be
given some of those slices of Thracc
to which his countrymen are en-
titled by the terms OF the fourteen
points. by the terms of the armis-
tice. and by the terms of the treaty.
indeed, by every standard with
which the situation can be meas
ured except by the yardstick of pre-
datory force. which il was thought
by some guileless people had been
put away for good last year. In
deed. We thought it broken or
stored in the museum of mediaeval
curiosities. a relic of ark days. which
advancing civilization had succeeded
in diScarding at a cost of some TO-
900. 200 or l2.0OO.000 noble lives,
II our radio compass were to IA
vor us with a flash today. il would
reveal the fact that our good Samsr-
itan, while on his errand of mercy
fell among -. but l must halt
here. That word is not permissible
in diplomacy, even of the shirt
sleeve variety in which il was once
our boast that we excel. so l. must
merely suggest that our Ssmarita n
fell among gentlemen whose pre-
datory instincts were not always
held in check. Some of the great,
and certainly all the greatest. les
sons of the great war had escaped
them. To their minds the covenant
is but a veil thrown about star
chamber conferences. and only
serves to cloak secret agreements.
Senators Counsel Oblivion.
And the treaty of peace that has
cost so many millions of lives. not
only the millions who died. those
happy ones. but the millions more.
the luckless ones who must drag out
their crippled lives. the millions Of
those who walk alone. and the sea
OF tears-well. this costly contrfv-
ance we are counseled by America n
Senators to cast into the discard.
to dismiss into Oblivion. After all.
they would have us believe what
IT cost US is mere bagstcIle in
these days of large expenditure and
of unlimited suffering,
Must we follow this advice And II
we refuse. how can We bring to con-
fusion the now dilatory, pow OBJ
structive, tactics of those who, with
reckless ignorance, are insisting
upon this policy? Why should we
follow their advice: 1t is given by
men who say today that, thanks to
them and their activities. the peace
treaty. which stands at the judg-
ment seat of civilization lis not be-
fore the United States Senate, but
is being strangled in little COM
mittee not representative of that
time-honored body. Should these
little men achieve purpose. one thing
only is certain in the anarchy that
will result from the success of their
efforts. They will have secured for
themselves in the annals Of their
country a place SO low and so con-
temptible that Benedict Arnold him.
self would not change with them.