The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
FOREIGN.


The Assembly of the League Of Ma
lions meets tomorrow In Geneva with
the United States among the missing.
Austria and Bulgaria have asked to be
admitted to the association and prob
ably will be. but France won't stand
for letting in Germany at this time.
When II was made known that some
Scandinavian country was to propose
Germany, France promptly gave notice
that she would get out If Germany got
In Great Britain. Paris says, has
agreed to support France In keeping
up the bars against Ebert's Govern
ment.
Aside from the possibility OF Ger
many forcing this issue. chief interest
les In what attitude or action. II any.
the meeting will take toward conciliat-
ing opinion in the United States.
The Italians and the Jugo-Slavs have
got together in a little town in italy
and have settled what was such a BIZ
issue in and after the peace conference
tho Adriatic question With mini
mum of talk and without any attention
to Gabrielle d.Annunzio A treaty has
been drawn up and signed whereby
Fiume Is to be a State entirely inde-
pendent and without any control by the
League OF Nations. II is expected that
President Wilson will have an oppor-
tunity to pass upon the settlement. He
was very much involved in the con-
troversy. which he made the subject
If several strong notes to the different
European Powers.
Austria will starve this winter unless
she gets 100000, 900 In money or food
from the rest Of the world. This is the
word brought to Paris by the Austrian
Section of the Reparations Commission
which went to Austria to get indemnity
and returned from Austria with an
urgent appeal to the Allied Governments
to go to the rescue of their former
enemy. The children come IN for par
ticular mention. II being stated that 30
per cent. of them have ricketts, and tuber-
culosis from want Of food.
A caustic discussion
Marshal Foch in the Paris press Is
Breaks Silence nopp.yt"s n,,s o1 his
tory to the world. Capt. Andre Tar
deu, by a semi-political attack on
Marshal Foch. has divided France into
two camps-the one supporting Clemen-
ceau, the other Foch. Tardieu says
the armistice was concluded too hastily
and on terms too lenient and against
the advice OF many Of the Allied mill
tary leaders. That is his reason for
the plight in which France finds her
self, needing the money which the
treaty says Germany shall pay. and
unable to collect It,
Foch, quick to reply. condemns the
Versailles treaty and arraigns Clemen-
ceau for his part in 1t. To Foch the
armistice terms were all that could be
desired. not only in his judgment, but
also in Sir Douglas Haig's. He saw
no reason to prolong the war with a
further loss of life when Germany had
agreed to terms which left her impo-
tent France. he Is sure. would now
have her full measure Of victory had
II not been for the weakness OF the
eace makers and their dallying. Die
he not insist on occupation OF the left
bank of the Rhine and demand other
tangible guarantees-only to be over
ruled and silenced by Clemenceau.
Wilson and Lloyd George?
Foch tells how he found the treaty
so repugnant that he decided not to
attend the signing, but did so only
after his friends had prevailed with the
argument that united front must be
presented against the enemy.
Stephane Lausanne. editor Of lie
Mdtin, takes up the argument for Foch
with a detailed report or the counci
of war at Doulens on March g. 1915
when the last and greatest German
drive was at It's height Clemenceau
after talking to Petain, Lauzanae says
had told Poincare that Paris might
have to be evacuated. Poircare did
rot like this, nor did Foch. Foch told
the President that Paris was far away
from Compiegne and that the Germans
could be stopped. must be stopped, in
their present positions. Going into the
council Foch repeated his opinion with
such ardor and with such confidence
in his ability to carry 1t out that Lord
Miner asked that he be put In SUI
preme command. General Haig, Lau-
zanne continues, agreed. as did Petain.
Thus, the story goes. Ciemenceau was
forced into line and Foch was made
generalissimo.