Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-09

"a PClAGSt 1CSdI &dS0 @d1 SdSkaj
be drafted at short notice in favor
of soviet recognition. But it is
the policy in the background thai
needs to be developed with care
If Mr.. Borah has worked out such
a policy, he did not elaborate il
in his Boston speech"
AND WILSON
THE distinguished Frenchman
! who is visiting in this coun.
try with the purpose Of arousine
sentiment favorable to an alliance
with France, paid a visit to Wood
row Wilson the other day. It was
a short visit and there was hardly
time for much discussion over the
purpose of the visit of the former
war premier of France to the Uni
ted States. No doubt the two men
were personally friendly. The til
ger of France at least has several
times since his arrival in this
country given public expression of
his admiration for the silent states
nan at Washington who took SO
large a part in making the treaty
of Versailles. Yet no two men
who gathered around the peace
table at Versailles were wider apart
then and now in their ideals. Glenn
enceau was not troubled about Eu-
rope or the world. He was solely
concerned about the interests of
France. He wanted to get the last
dollar possible to squeeze out of
the defeated foe for France. He
wanted to get the last possible
acre of land from Germany. He
revived the old dream of Napoleon
III which lay at the root of the
Franco-Prussia wal in 1870. He
wanted the left bank of the Rhine
for the French-German frontier.
That this would create another AL
sace-Lorraine and be a constant
threat of new wars did not trouble
him at all. That it would directly
violate the principle of self deter
mination or the consent of the gov
erned was naught to him. He and
President Wilson were wide apart
in their ideas. The Frenchman
was openly hostile to the League
of Nations idea at first, and spoke
sn%eeringly of it. He came to ac-
cept it later as a sort of pledge for
the French-American alliance.
President Wilson bought his CON
sent to the Versailles treaty by
promising to submit the French
American treaty of alliance to the
with his Endorsement. Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Wilson had grave
doubts of its ratification by con-
gress, for he several times called
the attention of the French pre-
nier to the fact that under our
constitution the treaty would have
to run the gauntlet of the senate
where it was sure to encounter
hostility. As a matter of fact it
had a chance of ratification,
and many who were willing to rat
ify the treaty of Versailles would
have baked at the alliance treaty.
Just now Ex-premier Clemenceau
is telling US that we ought to join
the League of Nations, though he
admits that he was not a great adj
of the League in the begin
ming. Mr.. Wilson would also like
to see this country join the League
of Nations, but the two men have
very different notions about how
the League Of Nations should func-
ton. C~lemenceau wants it to have
army and stand guard between
France and German revenge. Will
son wants it to function as a court
and arbitrate international differ
ences the world over, preventing
war. The one thinks in terms Of
advantage and the other
in terms Of world advan-
The Tiger of France is re-
ceiving an ovation wherever he
goes in this country. But it is per-
sonal to himself. He appeals to
The dramatic instinct in Americans.
But we cannot see that he is put
ting over his ideas in coming to
visit us. The American people are
liberal in their cheers for him, but
will be slow to enter into any
pledging their military aid
to France under any circumstances.
ErnpHrht.a An1 srauuv N1unt /