Evening star., 1920-01-11
LIBERALS DEMANDING :
NEWpEACECONFERENCE
Mr.. Simonds, Analysing Difficulties of
First, Doubts Whether Another
Could Do Any Better.

because it was felt he had not sue
ceeded where success was possible in
obtaining Fiume for Italy. If Lloyd
George was not in danger it was be-
cause President Wilson never ven
tured to challenge any essential Brit
ish purpose. Paderewski did fall be-
cause he got for Poland not absolute
title. but a twenty-five year lease to
East Galicia. Would Lloyd George
have survived in Britain il he had
turn to Southwest Africa or the Turks
to Mesopotamia?
But" say the liberals" just make
it clear to the French that the United
States does not mean to help them
keep the Sarre and they will give
up" Is it SO sure, will they not
rather enter into an arrangement
with the Italians by which French
support on the Adriatic Is repaid by
italian aid on the Rhine. while Italian
and French support combines to IN
crease the stature Of Rumania and OF
and Hungary? And even Great Brit
ain. once the hope OF American part
nership is totally extinguished. Will
have to make her decision, just as
she had years before the war when
she agreed to the partition of Persia
at Russian request. without regard
to Persian desires, but with full ap-
probation Of her own necessities. and
just as she made her Japanese alli-
ance.
The beginning of a real understand
ing between nations will have to be
their situation. Before the peace con-
ference we in America had Europe
interpreted to US largely in terms OF
domestic emotion. The interpreta-
tion turned out to be a mistransia-
tion. Those who were mainly re-
(nv hA tat n o1 q tim
now endeavoring to cover up their
error by ascribing the responsibility
| for what happened at Paris to various
| statesmen instead of to several ma
! tions. including our own.
Cry for New Conference.
Their present cry is for a new
peace conference. a new world as
! they argue that the world is now
aware of the terrible blunders OF the
| last year, repentant and eager to
undo the wrongs Of Paris. Perhaps
| the world ought to be, but 1t Is hard
! to see any signs Of the repentance
! liberalism, so called, the plain fact
appears to be that drift in many
! quarters is toward the old order in
international affairs, il not in domestic
and economic fields.
| True, the British still want the
1 "A
French the American guarantee of
the Anglo-French-Ameri treaty.
the Italians would be glad of Ameri-
can aid and support. Poland. Ru-
mania. Jugoslavia would be glad TO
get American guarantees. loans. as
| sistance, but one has only to read
the foreign press to see that in no
| quarter is there the same hope OF OBJ
| tanning this as there was a year ago.
And is the United States reader to
! consent to an Anglo-American part
nership. to give a French gIaran.ee'
Serbia, Poland by actual military ef-
Once we ever passed them. then the
consequences were patent. The Brit
] ish, French, italian people, the Euro
peans generally did not quarrel with
certain liberal ideas. as many Or
| His American critics now assert. buy
| because he endeavored to apply thesS
so-called liberal ideas at their exo
pense. .
Britons. Italians Italians; when he
| got back to the United States he dis
cUvered that Americans were Ameri-
caneyo Whenever he undertook to
achieveEa certain end which ran coun-
ter to the national sense OF any people
when he could offer a substitute
| equally as good" was his policy ac-
cepted A new world conferences
would today disclose the same truth;
| Il has been the invariable revelation
| of every world conference in modern
history II one doubts this let him
read the history Of such gatherings
from the time Of the treaty Of West
phalia to that of the congress OF Ber-
| lin. Wars sometimes settle interna-
| tional disputes; peace conferences
| never. We shall not have peace until
the last session of the final peace con-
| ference has adjourned sine die. An
other peace conference to amend the
decisions of the last would leave US
with more confusion, concefvably, but
certainly with no more peace, and
the world is hardly likely to risk 1t
| just now.
| (Copyrighted 1870 By the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndieate.)