Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-01-04

treaty. The four nations would be
Great Britain, France, Italy and Ger
many, and the United States would be
only an intermediary. The peace term
for Europe might be set at thirty years.
1t is argued this agreement would guar
antee France against aggression by
Germany and enable her to reduce her
big standing army, and also would
guarantee Germany against further
seizure Of territory by the French.
President Harding and Secretary Of
State Hughes are disposed to move
very carefully in matters relating to
Europe, but it is known that Mr..
Harding believes some such pact, by
which the nations will agree to consult
one another before resorting to war,
will prevent warfare more surely than
will any league to preserve peace.
CENATOR BORAH'S resolution for
- a world conference on economics
and ornaments, alluded to at the head
of the column, not only has caused a
lot Of discussion in Washington, but
also has disrupted the young alliance
between the farm and radical blocs in
congress. The Idaho senator has
seemingly broken away from the group
of sirreconcilables' and johnson of
California already has loudly an
nounced his opposition to the Borah
r. An oanT3nr1niR
ley, of necessity, must consider not
only present conditions in Europe but
the debts due to us, and, of course, the
reparations due from Germany. We're
we to invite the interested nations to
discuss these subjects in order to ar
rive at understandings and agreements,
with a mental reservation to take no
part in the ultimate solution, we would
be guilty Of a species of bad faith, of
which America has never been guilty
and which Americans never can toll
crate.
IF we bring the nations of the
earth here to Washington for such a
conference wen dump into Americas
lap the economic ills of Europe and
the reparations muddle. IF, officially,
we sit down with the other nations
who meet at our invitation, and reach
an understanding and agreement, we
are in honor bound to carry out and
execute that agreement, and the very
instant we undertake to carry out an
agreement to enforce Preparations, that
instant we abandon the traditional
policy of America. We become a part
Of the European scheme of things and
we enter upon that course from which
we have so recently escaped and which
our people so overwhelmingly repudi-
ated."
Mr.. Borah insists there is nothing
inconsistent In his program, maintain
ing that it is up to the United States to
point a way to stability and peace in
Europe but that it is not necessary
for this nation to enter into pledges to
carry out agreements.
Because the Borah plan looks to the
restoration of the European market
for American agricultural products, it
is regarded with favor by the members
of the farm bloc.
CONTROL Of the Mosul oil fields
~ may yet wreck the Lausanne
peace conference. Ismet Pasha mott
fed the British delegates that Turkey
would maintain her claim to ownership
of the Mosul vilayet and could not
accept the British contention that it is
a part of Iraq and therefore of Meso-
potamia over which there is British
mandate. In reply Marquis Curzon in
formed the Turks that Great Britain
never would abandon the Mosul villa
vet and that no prolongation of the
conference would influence the British
government to recede from its position
in this matter. Lord Curzon said the
British had expelled the Turks from
the Mosul region and had occupied
and administered it; that they had
promised to free the Arabs from Turk
ish rule and to establish the govern
ment Of Iraq, and had given their sol
emn pledge that no foreign power
should be allowed to take any of this
territory. To these pledges, he said,
Britain would steadfastly adhere. Lord
Curzon, however, agreed to have Brit
ish experts meet with Turkish experts
to define the northern boundary of
Iraq.
This statement by Marquis Curzon is
too flat to be taken as bluff, and it
seems certain that If the Turks do not
wish to have the conference break up
they must yield.
The Turks have agreed that the non
MosIem minorities in Turkey shall en-
Joy freedom under Turkish laws with
out distinction as to nationality, re-
ence. In it's reply, forwarded about