New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

OK the Bulgarians, arc held mos
iniquitous and most intolerable
They are the terms which viii 70
quire the largest exercise Of forc,
to keep vital.
The American conception Of F,
peace Of Justice, universally 40
cepted and seh-administrative. 70.
qufrfng neither armies nor economie
blockades, thus expired In the early
period Of the peace conference,
when it became clear that tho essen
tial and fundamental assumption
was incorrect and that there was no
unit Of Justice, no common cur
rency Of international right, which
all peoples would accept
For a Partnership
The British conception then be-
gan to operate. It was the view Of
British statesmen that the hour had
come for a partnership between the
Anglo-Saxon peoples, full partner
ship, but partnership In which, by
reason Of experience and familiarity
with world affairs, Great Britain
would long exercise the larger In
f1uence. Together the United States
and Britain were to enforce upon
the world a settlement Of the war
which would be eminently just,
Together we were to compel the
French to abandon the Rhine bar
rier; the Italians to give up their
Adriatic aspirations, whore these ex-
ceeded reason; we were to force the
Poles to accept restricted bounda-
ries, we were to compel the Ruma-
mans and the Jugo-S Slavs to admit
our right to interfere in their do
nestle affairs on behalf Of minorities.
This was, in effect, imposing upon
the world an Anglo-Saxon hegem-
ony. 1t was to assert and main
tain the right to act as the court of
last resort in every case where the
disputes Of other countries led to
world disorders, Unconsciously Mr..
Wilson drlfted from his original con-
ception to this second and British
conception In the course Of the
peace conference. Thus, again and
again we see him speaking, with the
support of Britain and of the United
States, and forbidding other nations
to realize their aspirations. His re-
cent Fiume utterance is only one of !
many such declarations. Together
he President and Lloyd George de-
orived Poland Of her own sea gate,
Rumania to surrender a
portion Of the Banat and vetoed
french demands to annex the Saar
Basin.
Why 1t Failed
But this Anglo-Saxon hegemony
n It's turn fell through for two rea-
ons; first, because the United States
senate declined to ratify the treaty,
which In reality put this form of
world control into effect, and, Sec
md, because the whole world cried
tut against the scheme itself. The
world protest was based upon the
act that while the Anglo-Saxon
partnership refused to recognize
french, Italian, Polish and Ruma-
lian aspirations it conceded British
laims without debate. Wherever
he fourteen points ran afoul Of a
British policy the fourteen points ]
we're suspended, as in the case Of the I
reedom Of the seas, Of the German !
olonies, Of the "separation allow !
nces." But these principles, which
'ere not used against the British. L
we're rigidly applied to Continental
uestions. {
Had the United States Senate &C. I
epted the Treaty Of Versailles and 8
greed to the Anglo-Saxon domina- '
ion Of the world by Anglo-American
artnership the Continental unrest G
7ould have been for the time fruit t
ess, because no Continental nation q
r group Of nations was strong .
nough to hold out against Anglo r
-merican power, power mainly Geo. F
omtc and therefore almost exclu- Z
lvely In American hands, for the Il
loment at least. !,
lot Wholly Dead G
1t Is not quite true that tho whole y
1eory Of the Anglo-Saxon partner :,
nip has collapsed, as has tho orig =
lal Wilson conception. It ia still !,
'rongly held in certain quarters In e,
reat Britain. I commend to my h
'aders who would get clear view n
this partnership policy tho new A
ook OF Lord Eustace Percy, "The
responsibilities Of the Learue." g,
ercy was one Of tho authors Of the p
'venant, a member Of the British 9,
slegation at Paris and longtime 1,
ficial in the Foreign Office At At