Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-15
|NIPREM|ERS ON
HANDS AND KNEES
..;dent Wilson, Orlando and
o,hers crawIed on Floor
Studying Map .
rw ERA IN DIPLOMACY

,.u,ed in world diplomacy when
,ssrt wilson and his corps OF
e''u' vir;,e assistants went to Paris
uns, ~ ho given than that furnished last
~ " ~ :. tbe regular weekly meeting OF
p,,,IJc LEDGER Forum on the
Conference in the foyer OF. the
|,demy of Music.
aq'usS az rsccived telephone call to go to
y. wilson," said the speaker, DR..
~, M SEYMOUR. Of Yale, who was
a,' q the Austro- Hungarian divi-
~ tbe American commission. II
!, 70 his house and was told to go
| 10 his study.
~ " onened the door and went in. I
.s.t tbe familiar rug had been
aS ,.S hack to one side and its place
e' taken by an immense map OF
s,,o. Hungary spread out upon the
sh0 There were two men down on
81 hands and kneels, crawling from
amt 70 another on the map, ex:
.IUs P mountains and rivers and
nlns mi;pc from them to valleys and
~, n.o If these men was the President
vp'I United States. The other was
% %nlenipotentiary Of great Euro
y ppot down on my hands and knees,
I'd crawled on all fours over be-
he President. We were shoulder
houlder discussing some point when
N myself being showed aside by an
= azure which came charging across
man like a great bear, growing
asbtting for room. It was Orlando,
MAR Of Italy" 49,.
~ i'' sevmour's subject was 1.-THE
mnsnts of Austria Hungary - the
4 ~ an Empire" His talk differed
!, otbers in the series In the intimate
nan portraits he painted of the great
,res that met to remold the destinies
the world, in his personal impressions
III them and in the characteristic
leJotes with which he lightened and
the same time intensified his por-
ia pictured Clemenceau, with bushy
ws and mustache that concealed the
rsssion Of eyes and mouth, sitting
parently bored to death until some
hsrk stirred him to wrath and then
eyebrows raised and his mustache
.tied and he proved himself the
ger" with his passionate flow of Bit
inyestive and sarcasm.
Tn his cynical wisdom" said DR..
Tmour, "he had never believed that
end Of the war would bring the
lennium; these nationalistic quarrels
med to him entirely natural, even
ugh inconvenient.
His arid humor, his biting sarcasm.
played in an infrequent question.
trasted with the patient earncstness
President Wilson, who sat upon his
ht, and to whom, it is not uninter-
ng to note. the claimants appealed
their manner, if not in form, as the
Of justice upon whom their hopes
led.
Next to the Americans sat Lloyd
brge and Balfour, perfect contrast.
British prime minister consumed
an electric, energy, always on the
Of his chair, questioning and in
|upting; Balfour, with his long legs
Fretched. his head on the back Of
chair, eyes not infrequently closed,
bsophic in his attitude, completely
against those sudden gusts of en-
sasm which sometimes assailcd his
4.
Contrast Of British Leaders
One of the younger British diplo-
summed up the three leading
res that represented his country BY
ng that Balfour knew things but
not care; Bonar- Law cared but did
Know. whereas Lloyd-George
ner knew nor cared.
Next, on the right of the English,
The Japanese, with features i'm
as the Sphinx, enigmatic as the
"a Lisa, Facing Clemenceau sat the
pans-Orlando, florid in manner,
uent in speech Sonnino, with eagle
uteS, powerful nose and jaw set
q wise
In the corners were the secretaries.
'ad the principals sat the attaches
Experts, with their maps and tables
STATISTICS, Whispering corrections of
parte statements which the dele.
.T MI the nationalities presented.
lug latter stood or sat before Glenn
au desk, presenting the particular
IA oi their newly founded or ex-
ding states.
anere was the black bearded Bra :
", OF Rumania, rather moody.
,ns LOT the treaty of 1915, resentfui
pposltion. or, contrasting type. the
w and smiling foreign minister of
.zecho- -SIOvak republic, Edward
", magnetic in manner. frank in
a;lon' y" .t lie had done much to Or
Il Han ,ne revolution that swept aside
rba bmaappsourgS and to build up the
uo,sloVak army in Siberia: his
;Tatlc pnc skill had combined with the
honesty of President Masaryk TO
NJ v4e IRE. recognition of the Allies for the
iSe1 p1 again the claimant would be
rue, DmOwski, with furrowed
S, clear logic and power of satire
rt0,Ided htVIInded as effectively, though less
IIqn9uSIy than the scalding inyec :
=" bratlanO, There also were the
~ the patriarchal Pachtich, with
y, y" moving beard, veteran of many n
VaiallG battle in the Balkans. and
STO smooth; spoken Vesnitch, both rep :
lung rg the Serbia of old. together
.Irumbitch and ZhegIer renre. .
|o'Slavs. '"' ifeeu austrian
oAps Were the Mysteries
among all of these the Japanese
tne me mysteries. They apparently
i. Out t perlunctory interest in the
TSool N Oh southwestern Europe.
.ton %e'e was one incident where a
'IUn im arose in council and where
an%srlSans an% lean and English voted one
otbo, bo 'nG ;ri French and Italians voted
Ss"iGi,,. SI, lhe japanese member held
IVY W. sniS inc whole question to him
with IS'a the Frenchman, do YOU
ITb"a ITa in Ine French and itaIiansf
~" a pleasant smile. answered