Evening star., 1946-10-11
Greece May Appeal
To Big 4 10 Reverse
Decisions al Paris
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.
Stor Stoff Correspondent


PARIS, Oct. 11.-SadIy and
bitterly, Greece told the Peace
Conference today what she
thought of its work on the peace
treaty with Bulgaria, on which
the conference is expected to
register its final vote this eve
ming.
Whatever international justice is,
1t is not that victims of aggression
should be left in a position of dis
advantage ia relation to their ag-
gressors, saiy Constantin Tsaldaris,
Premier of the ravaged Hellenic
state.
He said that if the conference
does not reverse the decision of its
military commission on provisions
of the Bulgarian treaty, he will
appeal to the Big Four Council OF
Foreign Ministers to reverse the
conference.
Sought Control Of Passes.
Greece had sought q strategic re-
adjustment of her border with Bull
garia giving her defensive control
of mountain passes which, in the
last war or often before, provided
easy access to the forces of the
invader.
Mr.. Tsaldaris expressed his dis
appointment that the conferences
military commission had seen fit to
give no consideration to this request.
It would, he said, have involved the
transfer of only 1000 square kilo-
meters and 10000 Inhabitants of the
region. ....
Then the head of the little state
which at one time stood alone with
Britain in opposition to the Axis
summed up what the proposed peace
treaty does for Bulgaria, whose
forces helped Germany crush and
occupy Greece;
"She would acquire Southern Dob
ruja," he said with a population
of $4,000 and would thus become
mistress of one of the richest reg
ions of Southern Europe. She
would not have experienced the de-
yastation of war save in trif1ing
degree. The personnel strength OF
her peacetime army, limited to
80 900 under the Treaty of Neuilly
would be increased to 5000.
Navy Increased Six Times.
"No restrictions would be imposed
upon her army formations or upon
their armament and guns. She
would keep the war material cap
tured in the course of this war.
1.-THE maximum tonnage of her
navy will be six times greater than
before the war. Whereas the for
mer treaty prohibited the forma-
ton of an air force, the present draft
treaty provides for the maintenance
of 80 aircraft and of a personnel
strength of $500.
Thus Bulgaria will emerge from
the war under conditions infinitely
more advantageous than those of
1919. from a military no less than a
territorial point of view"
Mr.. Tsaldaris said the policy of
the men who put Bulgaria into the
war by Germany's side had thus
been justified. He described this
policy as a sort of heads-I-win-
tails-you-lose proposition, in which
Bulgaria would have prospered II
Germany had won, but when defeat
came could count on powerful pro-
lection in certain quarters, such as
would enable her to escape response
bility for her actions"
As Mr.. Tsaldaris made his refer
ef1ce to certain quarters" he looked
directly at the Russian delegation.
Fears Loss Of Sale Reward.
Conversely" he went on Greece,
stricken and devastated, will be de-
prived of the sole reward to which
she had aspired, that of regaining
security and pease behind the shell
ter of a defensible frontier"
YEARLY, the speaker concluded:
Greece q" did not calculate
the chances of success that offered,
much less the advantages which she
might derive. Whatever your de-
cisions may be Greece will
always be found by the side of those
who defend the cause of liberty and
justice"
While Mr.. Tsaldaris spoke, con-
ference delegates coughed, shuffled
their papers. read magazines and
talked to each other in undertones.
Secretary of State Byrnes took
over as president of the conference
today.