Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-03-18


ntly opened by the duke of Devonshire.
war.
attacking the British rule. Dispatches
from Turkey assert that Prince Feisal
of the Hedjaz kingdom is implicated
in 1t and has suggested a possible
union of Turkey, Syria and the Hedjaz.
The situation is becoming almost as
complicated and difficult to under
stand as that In Russia some months
ago.
What was heralded as great drive
against Poland by the Russian bolshe-
Wiki was turned into decisive defeat
Of the latter when the Poles took two
important railway functions and
large number of prisoners, Including
an entire division staff. Immediately
thereafter Tchitcherin, soviet foreign
minister, sent another peace note to
Warsaw, asking when and where the
peace delegates Of all the border ma.
tions might meet with the representa-
tives of the bolsheviki. He asked Po-
land to refrain from further hostjllties
and explained that the soviet opera
tions on the Lithuanian and White
Ruthenian fronts, which the Poles had
broken up, were inspired by fear that
the Poles intended to start a drive
against the Ukraine. President Pnsud-
skis position in Poland was grently
strengthened by the victory of his
troops and the attitude of the Mos
cow government. Y
The Roumanians and the bolsheyiki
are in a fair way to make peace. ne
gotiations now being under way at
Dorna-Watra in Bukowina. AS a pre-
liminary the Roumanians demand that
the soviet troops be withdrawn from
the frontier and that commercial rela-
tIons be resumed. It now appears like
ly that Roumania will succeed in her
great purpose of annexing, or recov-
ering, Bessarabia.
The supreme council of the allies.
taking note Of the distressing state Of
the world In general, has issued
memorandum on economic conditions
that Is welcomed by all serious mind
ed persons. For the preservation of
civilization 1t urges, as might be ex-
pected, the early and complete res
toration of peace conditions, with nor
NAL economic relations, reduction of
armies to a peace footing and limita-
ton of armaments; the encourage
ment Of larger and better output by
workers everywhere; the suppression
of extravaganza, and deflation Of
credit and currency; and assistance
for countries that are now unproduc-
tive for lack of raw materials. With
out any suggestion Of mitigating the
treaty terms 1t is stated that Germany
and especially Austria must be en-
abled to obtain foodstuffs and raw
materials in order that they may re-
cover enough to pay the indemnity
demanded Of them. and 1t Is declared
that the total Of the reparation must
be fixed at the earliest possible time.
There is even a suggestion that Ger
many should be allowed to raise an
international loan to meet her imme-
diate needs. In this proposed line Of
conduct toward the vanquished ma
tions the supreme council is facing the
facts with business calculation, not
with sentimental feelings.
Mt 1c, <1,o tn -
forces In the senate have entered on
what is described by the Washington
correspondents as the decisive strug-
gle over the peace treaty of Versailles.
AT this writing they are engaged in
another Of those combats, and the
prospect is that this time 1t really will
be decisive. Early in the week Pres-
dent Wilson, rather than to confer
with representative Of the compro-
misers, wrote long letter to Senator
Hitchcock in which he reasserted his
old position regarding the treaty, con-
demned the reservations as nullifi-
cation of the League of Nations cove
nant and pleaded for consideration of
the needs of humanity instead Of "spe-
cial national interests" He demand
ed that article 10 be accepted un-
changed and asserted that to refuse to
accept the moral obligation required
by 1t woui,: be breach of good faith.
If the United States cannot enter the
league with full responsibility, he said,
it should retire gracefully from the
great concert Of powers. Article 10,
said the president. represents the re-
nunciation by the other great powers
of their old imperialistic ideas and
aims, and It's doctrine is the essence
of Americanism. He continued:
"Militaristic ambitions and imperial.
istic policies are by no means dead
even in the councils of the nations
whom we most trust and with whom