Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
ARMS FARLEY MUST
LISTEN To PEOPLE.
BY WILLIAM 7. ELLIS
Especial Dispatch to The Journal and
The Chicago Daily News.)

especial DlSpatCh TO Inc JOurllAl anu
The Chicago Daily News.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-Omt-
nous news from the east, as we'll as
the whole of western ciVilization's
acclaim of Americas position at the
opening session, will tend to keep
this conference under the sway of
"vox populi." It is wiser as well
as q sadder world that sits in coun-
Gil in Washington. Europe'S states
men, especially, have recently learn
ed in a bitter school the practical
application of certain sentiment,
written on a precious parchment
treasured in the American state de-
partment, to the effect that the just
powers of government depend upon
1.-The consent of the governed" that
sentiment was flouted at Paris; it is
accepted here.
The proudest of European nations
have paid humiliating price for
their haugty disregard in 1919 Of the
sentiments Of the plain people who
populate this world. That is why
they read with concern Of the calling
Of IAN Asia conference" at Irkutsk,
by the Far Eastern republic. A
similar meeting followed the signing
Of the Paris pact; it was held at
Balku, the famous oil port of the
eastern Caucasus. on the Caspian
sea, in September, 1919. From that
meeting have flowed disastrous con-
sequences to all the great powers
of Europe.
Some Of these results, the bearing
Of which upon the present sessions
is apparent, were as follows:
Bolshevism at Baku formulated an
alfred, anti-European program for
Asia, centering its attention on the
Near and Middle East.
A working alliance was effected
between the red and the panislam-
lists. This was best typif1ed by the
Russo-Turkish agreement, which has
now practically reclaimed all Of Ana
tolia for the Turkish nationalists,
and has contemptuously rolled into
a ball and trampled under foot the
treaty of Sevres. All the elaborate
agreements-and disagreements-of
the allies at Constantinople have
been set at naught by the popular
uprising.
Definitely, as a result of this meet
ing in mid-Asia, which the press of
the world either ignored or dismiss
ed as the vaporings Of q lot of NAL
contents and agitators, several Ash
attic countries have gone Bolshevik,
among them Armenia, Georgia, Aver
baijan, Dagestan, Bokhara, Kniva,
Turkestan and Persia. The last
named has not adopted the soviet
form of government in fullness, al
though like Mongolia and Afgranis-
tan, it is revolutionary in spirit, and
in sympathetic accord with Moscow.
More serious yet, from the stand
point Of the European governments,
the Baku programs have been car
ried out to an uncanny extent in the
expulsion of western powers from
parts of Asia upon which they laid
hands after the arnistice. France
has had to quit Cilicia; Greece is
now outward bound on the portal of
Smyrna and western Anatolia; Italy
is out Of Adalia; Great Britain has
left Persia, Mesopotarnia, the eau
casus, and is packing her baggage
preparatory to getting out Of Egypt.
In every one of these events of
magnitude, the compelling power
was a popular uprising. in conse-
quence Of ,or in sympath with, the
Baku conference.
So there is abundant reason why
the convocation Of revolutionary
leaders of Siberia, Korea, Man
churia, Mongolia. India. Persia and
neighboring Asiatic states, should be
given grave consideration by this
conference on problems of the Far
East,