The Washington herald., 1920-02-21
DECIDE soon ON
TURKS FUTURE
Participation Of U. S. ir
Allied Farley Depends
On Note.
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Turkish settlements. whether the
present Adriatic controversy will
result in change In this desire,
only time can tell.
The President even now has an un-
conscious spokesman in English pub
lie opinion. There Is a growing Eng
lish demand to oust the Sultan from
Europe and the English parliament is
now threatening to take a hand in
such a business.
In this connection. the whole ques-
tion Of Eastern and Western Trace
comes up. and another problem, .hav-
ing some of the Adriatic aspects. is
confronting the White House. Just
as he supported the claim of Bulgaria
to Mediterranean port, so does the
President discountenance the present
Thracian diplomacy of the allies.
Mr.. Wilson's latest reply to the al
lied powers promises to establish far |
reaching precedents. The allies will
have to take an unequivocal position |
on all settlements, to which America |
could be bound in the future. Not |
only the Italian compromise and the |
Treaty of Versailles generally, but
any treaty with Turkey are targets
for the shaftlike possibility of
withdrawal" in the Presidents objec- |
tion to the Jugo-Slav ultimatum.
Consequently. any disposition Of
England and France to placate Italy, |
in return for her Jugo-Slav back |
down." with Near East concessions Is |
forestalled. OF course, the supposition |
is that the allies-for the time being, |
at least-wish America to carry on
with them. Some days ago reports
from Rome revealed Deputy De Ces- !
arc in a significant role.
] De Cesaro is the nephew of Baron |
'Sonnino. Italy's former foreign min
lister and arch political foe of Premier !
Nitti. He charged Nitti. before parlia- |
ment with considering the abandon |
ment of Italy's Adriatic position in |
payment for "equalizinS elements"
elsewhere.
A memorandum from Lloyd. George |
was found on Nitti's private desk. DE
Cesaro alleged. This asked the rre- |
mier to yield to Jugo-Slavia, and as
recompense promised him anything he
wanted in the Near East, 1t is re-
ported.
italian Ambassador Speaks.
In the midst of all this babel of
rumors, suspicious and notes. the voice
of Baron Romano Avezzaha, Italy's
Ambassador at Washington, comes
with the accent of authority. In dis
cussing present-day Italy in the latest
number of The Independent, he says:
1T is not a secret that the Italian
people, nourished in the precepts of
Roman right. have never been able !
to understand how. in virtue of new
principles. the treaty of London should |
now be disregarded. Even less could
they understand how even admitting
that, through these new principles, /
they might have to renounce some por- |
tions OF the treaty Of London. these
very same principles should have to
become devoid of significance when
applied TO Fiume and other cities of
Dalmatia which Italy has always con-
sidered as Italian"
: Germany Reaps Fruits.
Neutral diplomatists here believe
that Germany and Bolshevist Rus
sia will gather the real fruits of the
present crisis between America and
the allies. They say that the Adriatic
controversy is giving Prussian mill
tarists and Russian Bolshevists ef-
fective propaganda material. e.
In line with this point of view
| Germany's increasing independence
toward the treaty of Versailles is
| pointed out. The rush of the Baltic
States, like Latvia and Lithuania. to-
ward peace with the Soviet is like
wise indicated.
| For some time neutral govern
ments are said to have felt that the
allies were disposed to abandon
America, politically. This feeling,
borne out in part. at least, by the
| existing situation, has long been
( hidden by international reactions, 1t
is intimated.
The Neutral Position.
The possibility of the Senate's de-
/ feat of the treaty had been having
a diplomatic effect even before Pres
ident Wilson's indirect threat" to
withdraw the document from the
Senate. The American public's dis
inclination to make further loans
| or extend material economic relief
| to Europe is also viewed as an es-
/ sential element in the present al
/ lied stand.
/ Foreign circles here see the real
possibility of an Anglo-Franco-It -Ital-
| ian military alliance as substitute
/ for the proposed Anglo-Franco-
| American convention. They go as
far as to declare that such an al
| lance has undoubtedly been already
discussed.
Neutral diplomatists at Washing
ton are ready to admit that nom
lcombatant nations have already re-
garded the American element as the
moral ferment in any allied deci-
sions. However. they do not deny
that both neutral and small coun-,
tries will have to play safety first"
in the present differences between
the allied and associate powers.
Speculation on the South Ameri-
can angle of the present relations
between the allies and America is
the burden of a good deal Of con-
versation in diplomatic circles. II
America rejects the league of ma
tions, and South American republics
enter II what heromas of the Mon