Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1920-06-23
PRESS Of LONDON
ASSAILS LEACH
Persia Deal by the Council Flaws
in Editorials.
FAILURE TO ACT IS sCOREr
Britain Is Warned That the LsaOv,
oead-one Paper Says .; Never
LlVed--A POmPOus Fares.s
Asserts Times.

London, June lS-Sharp CRITICS
Of the decision reached by the 81,
ell Of the League Of Nations IN ~.
pone action on the plea Of Persia :,
defense against the bolshevisi i 4
pressed In some quarters here. ouA
section Of the press openly attacks IN
council for its action.
some Of those present AZ the mees.
Ing Of the council. il is declared W,,x
given a bad impression. aud il j. m
derstOOd Prince Mira Firouz Persia
foreign minister. notwithstanding hi
outward acQuiescence, was c0nSGersbly
disappointed. although he caufo-f.l
himself Ia the confident hope that 4
the event bOlshevik troops lid "A
withdraw from Persia. the lrsul
would take active steps 70 pr0.ec. q
country.
Called "a Pompous Farce"
The Times captions its editorial "a.
the suhieC,, a p0mpous farce. snI
"aiis the proceedings 'humiliatlue." d
says:
Malice waz the cause OF dlsgredit
being brought on the league
This body (the counciD was pledged
10 the furtherance Of open diplomacy.T
complains the Daily News. but threw
no light on the text Of the correspond
ence between the Persian and spviet
governments and certain conditions az
legged TO have been imposed This :
one way Of killing the league.
The Herald, organ Of labor. declares
The league Is already lead because
IL never lived. and this because the
men who formed IL were mIlitariSs
and imperialistS, greedy for power and
territory"
Lord BeaverbrOOk. one II the dom
inant figures Of the empire. who Is
credited with driving Asquith from the
premiership and the seating Of Lloyd
George. turned loose the thunder q
his London newspaper on the Situa-
ton. In a lay editorial he said:
IF thought the League Of Nations,
as at present constituted, would post
pOne the possibilities Of was In the
future by one hour. or even by one
minute, I would give IL my heortiesi
support. as would every other good
Britlsher. but I don't"
Opposed to Mandates
BeaverbrOOk calls for the abandon
ment OF the British mandate for Mes.
opotamia, would leave Syria TO France
and refuse responsibility for Palestine
He demands a peace army and navy.
gagged on q two-p0wer naval standard
AN London. and much q England
Is buzzing at his suggestions, Ihey
are generally attributed 20 The IAN
ure Of the United States % take ans
action toward cooperation with the
League of Nations, and the belief that
the Republican party viii triumph next
fall. Its convention action on platform
ana candidates blasted Eneland's last
hope 81 American aid for the league
sis America Worth savins?"
Along the same line. the Glasgow
Herald, discussing Dr. Nicholas Mur
raw Buffers question, rs America
worth saving" says, editOrially;
1T is not for a stranger 10 dogma
tie on the moral duty Of the Amer
can people. nor to dictate the pcr'iol
az the white mans burden they should
undertake. II is difficult for Us 10 I'd
derstand Americas tradition n aVolo
ing contact with the qunrrels 81 th'
reSt Of the world. We know the ira
dltion is not strong enough 70 prrNe"
Americas whole-hearted co-operaiiol
IN war. and we know many indiVioaa
Americans who are convinced tAe uo'
trlpe Of isolation was q wise MAXIM
~ n day that has gone. 50 we at
asking ourselves If America should y
satisfied with working Out her owl