New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

personally any antagonlstic views &
is not difficult for them TO agree nj
certain compromises which e
Danish the Immediate DANCE,
rupture But the real difficulty a
gins when, The conference M
they return to their respective ee,Sl
tries and find themselves in ~
presence of the strongly antagm.
tic views of the majorities' in sssE
own countries. Then the debsl
starts all OVER again and we hsss
more incidents, more disputes. ,r
insistence on Lloyd Georges sid.sN
notifications Of the treaty, more d
mands on Millerands side for rrf
enforcement.
Bonds Crow Weaker l
This, after all, Is the reason al
ances are short lived in peace d
war, nations are bound together \
, their common danger, and their "
mary concern lies in defeating n
enemy. But in peace their intere=
are quite different. To-day Brits
interests seem to a majority Of Eg
hshmen best served by a pols
which to the French seems h
threaten the absolute ruin VI
France. And as the war becon.
more and more remote the bona
holding the two nations togeths !
grow steadily weaker.
Thus. whatever was agreed ups
at San Reno, and it is hopsal
sign that an open breach We
avoided and a modus vivendi, q,
least for the moment, agreed upa
it is self-evident that we are NJ
at the end of the chapter of Angs
French differences. In point &
fact, the Germans will see to ttE
The reason is found in the tst
which I have sought to emphaSr.
here, that the real trouble lies !
the utter dissimiIarity of the En-
lish and French views Of the GEL
man situation and the actual anti
esis which exists between the 9
terest of the two nations 50 I'll
as the treatment of Germany L
concerned.
I. shall discuss The Turkish ss
Adriatic agreements Of San Rss.
next week, but it IS worth noss
at the moment that, In realty
there is no settlement Of eit@
question. The creation of a statsf
Plume is, IN reality, merely Y
preservation for the future OF u
task of liquidating the dispute y
tween the Slavs and the ltaliaf
To Danzig and the Sarre there !
now added the equally thorny pro-
lem of tiume. Actually neither z
SIavs nor the Italians are IN Y
mood or the condition 10 fight he
and both NAV we'll welcome trp:a
but the dispute remains, only %
decision is adjourned.
AS for the Turkish solution, g
is, Of course no settlement wfs
ever. Assigning Thrace to Grs''
IS It wise and righteous verdf
Since Constantinople will remain '
cupied by Allied troops, the is'.
IS IN fact, although not n tbsoP
at last bundled cut of Europe, W
aHd baggage an enterprise whf
has taken, first and last, counH'
the years devoted to the efor "
keep him out in the first pls
something like eight centuh"
Greek occupation Of Smyrna "
step in the right direction, aithO0s
at best a hating step swathec w
conditions aud plebiscites, but y
the rest, the San Reno confe'ssN
like those of Paris before us
have done no more than make De-
marks on white maps and postpFs
for the future the task OF sss
forming the black marks into s0''
thing more tangible
Nor can one fail TO note fhs'
San Reno, AS at Paris, the Kus's
question has escaped settieiD'
Until Russia and Germany
brought back into the EuroISS
into the world, system. evesy''~
is provisional and relatively ih's
niticant by contrast -Solutions0'
Adriatic dispute, OF the Turkish :.
gle, ALLEGATIONS of ships, teFrises
agreements upon the SUNS !"
asked of Germany, all have W
substantial character World PFC
still waits upon the German
the Russian.
tCopvrigkt. 1920. McClsfvs w
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