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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1920. t wants to fortify Poland and Insure that Russia- will repay the old loans of the french, amounting to several billions. Trade with Russia is not Important from the French point of view. But Britain wants to trade with Russia at once tor the profit there Is In It, and cares neither for trench billions nor Polish security. Both national policies are camouflaged by very lofty principles, but both pol- SMS MUDDLES icies necessarily rest upon, very national Interests. As to Germany, Britain has acquired by the treaty of Versailles the maximum of profit possible from the war and the victory. Germany has lost her colonies, her merchant marine, her navy. She Is no longer a rival or a menace, but she remains a possible market, and Britain wants that market And the German customer. But France has not eliminated a military rival, acquired security, nor as yet realized any matyial benefit from the promised- reparations. She opposes German admission Into the world trade. Into the league of notions. Into world relations. pending proof that Germany has laid aside aggressive ambitions and la prepared, to pay the Indemnities. well-defin- ed E Action at Geneva Is Effort to Deprive Great Powers of Control, Simonds Says. British Diplomacy Wins. Combine of Lesser Nations, He Holds, Means Bol- - I shevizing World Relations By FRA&K H. SIMONDS. 3. It follows then, that at Geneva and everywhere else France and Great Britain oppose each other. la the Paris conference British diplomacy. Infinitely more adroit than French, succeeded In enlisting the United States against France and thus compelling France to bow to Britlan will. But when President. Wilson went home and the senate rejected the treaty of Versailles, France resumed her freedom and has successfully resisted the British effort to Impose British will upon her ever since. Geneva was only one more battlefield. Now the actual struggle between France and Britain at Geneva centered about the near eastern situation. Britain was eager to maintain the arrangement Created by the treaty of Bevrea and by other and more or less secret bargains, because the' profit was Yrlth her. Franc was eager to upset the arrangement because It represented In French eyes a British control of the whole of the eastBut the French line ern Mediterranean. of attack was through the question and was. on the surface, an appeal to the But for Arhumanity of the world. menia . herself, neither the French nor the British were prepared to act, to send Both were armies, to Incur sxpensss. willing to. permit the United States to undertake the task, both were agreed to pass ths Armenian question up to the United 8tates, laying stress upon the moral question involved, but underneath the surface France and Britain were concerned, not because of Armenian extermination, but because of the clash of two colonial policies in Asia Minor. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. In examining the progress o7 the first session of the league of nations at Geneva, It Is essential for all Americans to recognise at the outset that there Is a profound difference betweenr'The real' and the apparent issues thepe. Joined. It .was the failure to recognize this fact that led first to the deception and then rto the disillusionment of the United States in the case of the Pafia conference.- - At the very least w should' not permit ourselves to be taken In aa we were two ago. And when I speak of the jears difference between real and apparent issues It Is perhaps worth while to Illustrate by example. At Paris late in 1919 a bitter dls-- i, mission wag Joined ae to the new fron- tiers of Greece In Europe. Should the SHellenlc state have all of Thrace or only a portion? Should Bulgaria preserve a facade upon the Aegean? Ostensibly, the tissue was one of clear principles and the Small States Revolt. United States emphatically supported the So much for the Bulgarian contention, while Brltatn and) or "the'UGenVva proceedings' - i powers were checked by the In- (teresttng fact "that Italy supported the -- United States view, accepting ,Mr. Willsons idea of and economic Independence. 1 , ;Itaiy Reverses Stand. One day, however, '? without warning, Italy suddenly changed sides and with no further delav Greece obtained the right to occupy Thrace. America was left like Casablanca on the "burning deck. American the jUpon investigation, discovered had that never been at any time opposedItaly to Greek of or In Mr. Thrace interested 'possession Wilson's doctrine of In a dispute between Greece and jlul that of territories In Asia .Italy over division jAlinor, Italy had bluntly told Greece that it he pripe of Thracian gains was Asiatic sacrifices, and, after delay, Greece had concluded to pay. Thus, In. fact, Amer-Ica- n insistence upon the doctrine of had resulted in a successful "holdup" of Greece In Asia Minor. Now at Geneva, as at Paris, there .was. .u. ,, , j moral principles to promote qutto material practical bargains. In the first .place, the whole session was dominated joy the break between France and Great Britain, a break which Is expressed In a repre-sentattv- es Total difference of opinion and of selfish .national Interest in almost every part of the world. For example: France backs the Foies because she see in Poland a Aiseful ally against Germany. Britain Poland because the British had obtained economic supremacy In the Baltic states, notably In Lithuania, and see In v, Polish expansion a menace to this supremacy. .The British bark the Greeks -in the near east, because Britain sees In . Greece ad agent for her own plans 4n the old Turkish empire. France backs ft he Turk, because the French see a bet-tchance for their own Interests If the 'Turkish empire is restored than If .Greece, as a British agent, acquires vast Tterritories. -- es er Policies Cause Quarrel. But the great Franco-Britis- h quarrels ;arise out of conflicting policies with respect of Russia and of Germany. France X U. S. Absence Felt. But at Geneva- more than forty In the were - Lighten Her Load and Shell Be With You Longer Only $5 Dow,n AT $1.23 OB $2.30 WEEKLY Ordaf Now and Well Deliver It Xmas Eve Outwears Other Makes 3 to 1. Magnetically Suspended Armature BALANCE ' i Unlimited Guarantee on the Famous Washer Ball Bearing Motor, Steel Cut Gears, Everything the Best Bent One at 25c Weekly and Oet Cash Price on Tenna One-Minu- . - hobuj te DEMONSTRATION DODGE BROS., 66 E. , in nations assembly, as represented. contrasted with the council, Msny of these nations had not been belligerents. France, and Great Britain were at all concerned in the preservation of ail the fruits of the victory over Germany. The absence of the United States fatally weakened the prestige of the . council, while both Japan and Italy, resentful of thelp treatment by the British, French and Americans at Paris, were quit prepared to throw their lot In with ths assembly. Th dominating detail at the Geneva conference, then, was this revolt of the assembly against the council, a revolt that one may not inaptly describe as the battle between the. soviet and the senate. The assembly desired the admission of the Germans and all the other enemy states to the league of nations, the destruction of the control of the league by the great power end particularly by France and Great Britain. They were not In the least Interested in preserving for Britain and France, the sole beneficiaries with Poland under the treaty of Versailles, the gains of the war. They were out to take the control of the league away from the great powers, to scrap th whole Paris settlement, so far as It was unattractive to them and they had both Twill if ortance tb presence of a fs more Verlous circumstance, namely, the revolt of the smaller states against the domination and tyranny of the larger. At Paris the fight of the small states against the large was a conspicuous circumstance, but the small states were powerless. Wilson, Lloyd George and Orlando acting together again and again crushed the hopes, denied the claims, offended the sensibilities of the little nations, several , of which left the conference. In the constitution of the league of nations the domination of the great powers was maintained through the council. Of nine nations therein represented, five were to be great powers Britain, France, States. Italy, Japan and the United Three Britain, ths United Ftatee end France oould control, and a single negative blocked effective action. Moreover, in the Paris conception the main ,pur pose of the council was' to enforc the settlement made In the various treaties. For Her Xmas - phase But this 1st South Phono Wasatch 7036 the opportunity and. thanks'to an sstuts German maneuver, promptly, acquired the issue. , Mandatories the Issue. This Issue was ths mandatory system. Under the covenant of the league of nations German colonies and Turkish territories wire distributed - among certain nations, not as actual- possessions, but aa trusteed estates under the supervision of Uio league of nations and In tho league ths title was vested. This system was a clever device of British diplomacy to get around Mr. Wilson's point" shout ths German colonies. Mr.' Wilson had- withdrawn hia "freedom of tho seas point, but ho could not yield on this, while the British, under pressure from their own dominions, were compelled to keep possession of the German colonies. Germany, biding her ' time, ' suddenly threw a bomb Into tho Geneva conference by protesting . against ths fashion in which the mandatory system had been worked. In point of fact, only two great powers had received important mandates, France and Britain. - and Britain fared far better than France. Japan had acquired the mandate for a few Pacific islands. Belgium for certain restricted African land. But m reality, no nations represented at Geneva save only Great Britain and France were vitally concerned In the mandate affair and Great Britain and France represented precisely the dominating Influence in the council. which had aroused the assembly. , They. 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Not only are the German colonies subths of to but so are nations, leaguo ject the 8arre basin and Danzig, if Great Is Britain vitally affected by the colonial is phase of the mandatory Issue, France ot hot lee directly affected in the case because of Barre the her Polish poland, icy, almost equally concerned as to Danzig. Yet only France and Britain are vitally affected by the two questions and all the other nations are free to act as they choose without injury to themselves. Patently, then, the first session of ths league or tonations has led almost autoths challenging of the Fans matically settlement. It has done this by challenging with' equal promptitude the whole Of tile JCsfgoe of mittens In rofteepdtili tho minds of its authors, tho British and the Americana This conception was that tho league should be dominated through the council by the Americans and the British with the assistance of tho French. Tho failure of America to ratify the treaty of Versailles, the break between the British and the French, these two facts so shattered the whole structure that Its very existence was threatened at the first International session. Nqw It Is easy to perceive the extension of the present battle. To take an other question already raised: The small powers are vttally Interested In forcing Immediate disarmament. They have suffered terribly, particularly the neutral because of the burdens of ?owers, Their position becomes safe In proportion as the great powers disarm But how can the French disarm in the presence of tho Gorman situation with no Indemnity paid and the present roal con trlbutlons assured only by the threat of occupation of the Ruhr? How can the British disarm In the presence of trouble in India, In Mesopotamia, in Ireland? 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Technloally, they are league of reason of their veto power la able, by th council, to prevent disturbing action, but to exercise this right of veto In tn secret council of tho smaller body Is only to accentuate the passion of th larger assembly and lead to hostilities which must either wreck er revolutionise th lesgus of nations. To say ths thing simply: The Geneva conference disclose the purpose of th smaller powers to taks th control ot world sffslra out of th hands of th groat powers and make th league of na tlons a real werkl parliament a verita ble superstate. In doing this th smaller states are not In th least Interested in preserving the fruits of th recent victory over Oermsny; they are not. on th whole, as hostile to Germany as to Franc and Britain and they ara quit capable of making aa ally of Germany in th fight which Is Just beginning. Stats, question: Whet would th United wo endo In that gallery, aasumlng that Frem't: tered? Should w stand with th and tfte Hrltl.h against ths rest of Europe, perhups of th world. In preserving the council and thua fortifying th grip of the British and th French upon world power and enabling them to retain th gaine of their victory, dearly1 purchased on the battlefield? Or should w Join ths small stats and Gsrmany in upsetting Britain and Franca, wiping out lha result of th recent victory and transforming th league of nations Into a real superstate dominated by majority rule and thus by minor state.? -- Meaning of Situation. must peroslv th with, th apparent policy seek, to prewrve-th- a league of nations as machine for executing th terms of tn Small States to Haro Ally, the gains Moreover, assuming that Germany will recent victory and preserving h But registered. be admitted to th leasue, and therein pressntlf I by th fatal breach thla la Inevitable, th small states will solidarity th shaken two partner power. Him find In Germany a ready and powerful between few exceptions all the rest of th world assaults upon ally In all their a real control ot the league. Disarmed desires to turn th h league intoresources sconomlo herself under the treaty of Versailles, Superstate. InIn whit all which ths advantages sr pooled, Is to bound advocate th crip Germany of the strong si neutralised, in whlcn of th French army and of th pllng fiesta, colonies, raw British fleet; to display new enthusiasm control overarearmlee, In the league Basil vented materials, eld of tho Vfreedom to her advocacy now . poasesslng not In th nation ths seas." In all of this she will bo sup and ported byoldAustria, by InBulgaria, by Hun them. war her present If this mesn. anything It mean Soviet, partner gary, her arfslra. It mesne As for Jnpan lain. International companions In adversity. wondering what becama of our It is ths Italy, neither has any real inlet cut bolalievlzlng world relations. sick headache, bad cold or up and Lwnln toward or Rritein, give that hat ever In Supporting From step No griping no Incon- the Btttluil of France and Britain to longest set stomach. been considered hv ths western world. It venience. too. Children love l iscsrete, a war upon International oapltal, by ward them at Versailles end sine. All Of which leads up (o ID 10, 23, 30 rente. single which 1 mean nation, rich In territories (Advertisemen) At all events, I and strong tn weapons to defend them. Fwrt. conference the whole At th world situation was tn the hands of three men representing the three great elates of Britain. Franos and th United States. 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