San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-16
CECIL BLAMED
FOR SITUATION
IN OLD WORLD
Taraieu Says Englishman
Has Added to Tense
ness Of Trouble.
LEAGUE BROUGHT IN
Believes Greece and Italy
Acted Wisely in Consult
ing Conference.
LEAGUE BROUGHT In
By ANDRE TARDIEU.

BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
Copyright. by the San Antonio Light.
Paris. Sept. t5.-Although the "af-
fair of honor" between Greece and
Italy seems to have been settled
through mediation at the council of
ambassadors without recourse 10 war.
it has added regretably to the tension
which has too long existed in interna-
tional relations.
This is partly Lord Robert Cecil's
fault.
Americans know by experience that
certain contemporary British states
men talk bit fast.
| NiScount Birkenhead'S recent speech
at Williamstown, Mass. and his later
commentary on the san" subject at
Toronto are sufficient to prove this.
Now Lord Robert Cecil is very diff
ferent from Lord Birkenhead.
The former is lord of the old stock,
not merely Lloyd-George peer.
He is stern. does not gamble, does
not drink and does not smoke huge
cigar.
But in a way. he is no less impetu-
Gus and impulsivc than the Liverpool
child who now is the guest of the new
world.
Lord Roberts Geneva declarations
concerning the League of Nations were
neither opportune or effevtive.
They were not opportUne. because II
one wants to use an instrument. one
must take care not to demand more
| than the instrument can give.
The League of Nations is an i'm
perfect instrument at present and its
weakness is obvious.
France has proposed giving it mill
tary power. but rs you will remem-
Der, President Wilson and Prime Min
lister Lloyd-George were against it.
The result when the league faces n
decision for the enforcement of which
force may prove necessary it is i'm
potent.
Consequently it was imprudent to
seek to enlist ii in a cause where 1t
must soon confess its lack of power.
i cannot help adding that the way
in which Lord Robert Cecil poses in
Englands name as the defender of
smaller nations recalls suggestive men,
| Dries.
Since the war. England has been
suspicious of the small nations united
or aggrandized by victory.
The covenant of the League OF Ma
| tions does not exclude the use of di-
nlomacy and this means of settling
affairs is provided by the ambassadors
conference. one of the heirs of the
supreme council of peace.
When Clemcnceau was defeated for
the French presidency in January.
1920. and resigned the premiership,
Lloyd-George. contrary to what mad
been previously arranged. decided that
the Turkish peace negotiations should
be continued Mt London.
The result was the short-lived Sevres
treaty.
But after some weeks, it appeared
that there were many questions OF
detail to settle concerning the general
execution of the treaty Of Versailles.
aud it was decided that the ambassa-
doris OF the chief Allied and associated
powers should meet under the presi-
dency of the French foreign minister
or his deputy.
These meetings have continued since
1920.
They ar eheld as often as is necessary
in the salon of the Quai d'Orsay.
Under the Millerand administration
it was NJ. Palalogue, former ambassa-
dor TO Russia. who presided as gen
cral secretary of the ministry of for
eign affairs, representing the minis
ter.
In the autumn of 1920. VI. Palalogue
resigned, not agreeing with Premier
BRAND.
Since then. Jules Cambon has been
president.
Cambon when he took the post was
an ambassador unattached.
Since then he has made use OF the
right to resign and is no longer an &C.
tive official.
About every three months it is an
nounced that he is leaving the confer
ence on account of private business.
but Cambon still presides-and does
it well.
Americans know him as our former
representative in Washington.
There is no need TO introduce him.
with his well known quality of pro-
ducc and his wide experience.
His present colleagues are Crewe.
the British ambassador. an amiable
and conciliatory nobleman who lacks
the political authority of his predeces-
Sor. Lord Derby; Baron Avezanna. the
Italian ambassador. who has been in
Paris only about year since the rup-
ture between Count SfOrZa and Pre-
mier Mussolini and Viscount 1shii.
the japanese ambassador and present
president of the council of the League
of Nations, a man of great tact and
authority.
The American ambassador, Myron
T. Herrick. also attends, but only as
simple observer.
VI. Massibile is secretary-general.
Thus is constituted the conference
which for three years was occupied
with German disarmament, the execu-
ton of plebescites and the adjustment
of Oriental frontiers. and which has
just done such good work in the Italo-
Greek crisis.
OF course its decisions are made by
to the governments repre-
scented. it being composed merely OF
functionaries butts decisions have
been ratified.
And. begging Lord Robert Cecil's
pardon. it seems to me that Greece and
j italy acted wisely in consulting it.
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