El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-22
France Stands Alone Against Germany,
Deserted By England, France And q. S.,
As Peace Treaty Goes To Scrapheap

= dreamed by the president and put in
! writing By the British. which under
y took to establish a peaceful world
! without other than moral guaran-
/ But naturally the French, the
Italians, the Poles. the Rumanians,
all the continental nations, which
3 had suffered from German or Aus
! trian violence. rejected this Anglo
] American adjustment Of their future.
! They all pointed out with equal
! earnestness that Britain and America
] could afford to run all the risks in-
I herent in their proposals, because
J they were separated from Germany
by the sea and insured against naval
/ aggression by the elimination OF the
! German fleet, while, by contrast no
such insurance existed for France and
I Poland against German attack. for
! Poland and Rumania against Russian
attack.
italy. on her part, insisted that
there was no guarantee in the Anglo
American system against a future
menace coming from a revival Of Pan
Slavisln and the birth OF a great
siav state extending through Warsaw
and Prague 70 the shores OF the Ad-
riatic from Fiume to Cattaro-
Compromise Meant Nothing.
Now following the clash between
these two totally irreconcilable views
the Paris conference fell into a state
Of anarchy. Its deliberations amounted
to no more than an effort 10 hit upon
compromises which should enable the
advocates Of each Of the two methods
to append their signatures without
sacrificing their principles In the
end such compromises were appro ved
as amounted in reality to the negation
OF both principles and TO the creation
OF sort Of arrangement which
neither conformed 10 the Anglo
American view nor TO the continental.
For the French, for the Italians,
for the continental nations gem
orally the peace was q weak
peace, which gave them neither
security nor adequate reparnti
did violence to national and eth
mic claims Of the Poles. the Ru-
Uanians. the Creeks TO the ma
tionalistie aspirations Of the ItaI-
fans.
IN point Of fact the Italians. the
Rumanians and the southern Slavs
had already Withdrawn from the
Paris conference because OF their
dissatisfaction over the manner in
which their claims had been handled
On the other hand British and
criticism OF the treaty was
directed at the precise provisions held
insufficient by the continent and there
was general assertion that these
provisions made excessive concessions /
10 mllitariSU, Imperialism and did I
substantial violence TO the hope Of a /
peace OF understanding and of recon
citation The continent felt that the I
peace conference had been criminaIly I
negligent OF the rights and needs Of ]
the nations which had fought Ger {
many; British and American criticism !
tended 10 agree that the peace con-
ference had been unduly, even wick i
adly severe upon Germany and her /
recent allies
Lends to New Crisis.
such a divergence Of opinion could i
not fan to lead 10 a new crisis. rep
resented by the demand principally
IN Britain and onIv echoed in The
United States by certain journals and
writer's whose whole stock in trade
ntell ectually is borrowed from British
sources, for q revision Of the treaty
\ GermanT-5 favor On the CONT
lent on the contrary. the French
Jew was clearly expressed in the
emand that the treaty. held insult
icient in any case should be enforced ]
literally. In q word. the French were
dissatisfied with the compromises Of
be conference, but advocated clinging :
D what had been agreed upon. while ;
nglo-American dissa tisfaction took ]
ne shape Of demand TO alter, 70 re-
AXE the treaty
We may as well dispose OF the :
-alian position once for all. because 2
is totally Misleading. on the sur /
ace italy stood for a far more ex- {
-eme insistenc5 upon the continental {
lew at Paris than did France. She ! {
roposed an alliance between France 5
nc Italy TO enforce the extreme I ]
-aims Of each IN the face OF Anglo /
merlcan opposition France refus- s
ig' Italy withdrew from the confer 7