The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-05
CHAPTER Xxx.
Tho Conflict OF Interest.

l
The Conflict OF Interest,
/ r,csc men, whose unanunity wa
s,r,ardcd by circumstances. reprc
.a,s,ed nations separated py cen
,'.rics Of history. Great Brltalh ave
y.s,cp 10 mention but these, nae
an war between 1888 and 1917
get ge years out OF 1871. All the oth,
had each in its own country anu
? ~ ttq own interest lived ultIereh'
H. ~ - ,ybich had given birth to con
E,.,,,g interests. Immediate con
Tc,s reduced to figures In economic
t.d financial problems where one
fnuid not have more unless the oth
IEbsd less. other conflicts. less I'M
Saediats but far deeper, In puoIi'
nsrais where the diversity Of trad
,ions had given birth TO widely az
| yergent conceptions ana TO lrrecol'
'Hsblc contradictions OF teellhs Ah1
., thought. II was the dead OF age'
sneaklng and they did not All spear
| X ssnie language. NJ. Clemenceat
enA those who helped him direct tht
donations for France had persona
nvoerionce Of this dangerous dlVerg
enre ot national temperaments. H'
characterized IL IN these words
| which ] reproduce; ,,,
The state of mind OF our allies
ia moi necessarily the same as our
| ovn and when we are mot IN
agreement with them, II Is unjust
| ,o hlame those who do not sue
Good In convincing them or to
blame them for evil intentions
which arc not in their hearts.
= What are you going to do about
Y ~ Each OF us lives epcased IN
b,s own past. August Comte said
that we live dead mems lives and
4 is true.
which holds us In its grip. and
spurs US forward TO new efforts
Neither an Englishman, nor J, nor
anyone will cast off his HISTORICAL
gay OF seeing things and OF think
lpg because ne has contracted q
temporary alliance with a foreign
country.
had to do with these
difficulties during the war. Take
unity of command. Unity OF COM
mand was achieved by several
stages. Everybody did his bit.
But the difficulty OF bringing unity
OF command into being was much
less than the difficulty OF making
II work, and that because or the
different states Of mind l have Just
mentioned.
The peace conference has only
| Inherited states of mind from the
various conferences OF Versailles
and from the meetings which pre-
eeded IT,
How can a man be expected TO
renounce his past when he Is sac
rificing the blood of his country
men 10 uphold 1t?
| Men retain their virtues and
their faults together. You must
take them as they are. Thdy are
what they are. They have a past
as we have a past. AS far as
an concerned, merely because they
differ from me even on very Sc
rous questions, l do not feel called
gpon to break with them as has
,,Aeen suggested.
"A There Is the master difficulty.
One could not break off cor
only in such a manner that public
opinion would Immediately and
unanimously lay the blame on
those who broke off
1t is said that when one is
French, the right thing is TO say
Il demand" and If the others rec
fuse. to break; It was also said.
II the right thing is to go before
"a parliament"
u A fine reception I should have
lad, and how right pariiamel q
would have been to receive me Ill.
There should be no surprise at
the resistance we have encoun-
tered. The one said or thought,
Il am English" the other thought.
u am American" Each had as
much right 10 say so as we had to
| say we are French. Sometimes II
Is true, they made me suffer cruel
y. But such discussions must be
entered into not with the idea of
| breaking off or smashing the
serving tables and the china as was
Nhpoleon's wont, but with the Idea
o. making ones self understood.
\ That Is why those who had tn
Il responsibility. and therefore the au
Wority, gradually made such conces
sohs as were necessary TO fina
agreement. That Is why the recon
! mendations OF mmissions-some o
Which besides had not succeeded II
reaching unanimity-wtre some
tlmes brushed aside. France, l hav'
me right to recall It, almost Away
supported the opinions of the eN
perts, At the same time no coun
| w did more than France to paw
the way for the necessary agree
ments. Technical preparations, po
u'lci unanirnity, these were the twi
poies between which the conference
| ieNolVed. There we're deviation
| rom one TO the other. The straigh
,ihe was not always followed. lie
HIln who could have done better
.ast the first stone! The truth 1
mat on the one hand the essentia
.aetors were studied with a care no
pe found in any OF the great con
stresses Of history; and on the othe
u9 the decisions based thereon
"hen debated. were dominated b.
SPIRIT OF harmony inherited b.
guase from war--that the sacrifice
! maze were honorable concessions I,
e common purpose. on the othe
n@hp the commissions labofiou
sNorsshops where the materials wer
4 oeHged and stored; on the other
~ Dig tJur"-a mysterious powe
80 70 scare popular credulity ans
~ only exercised, however, tn
,sal authority with which the ma
rons cons rad Invested them. There Is tn
'npterenco OF Paris.