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Show OUR TROUBLES COMPARATIVELY SMALL. American has its vexatious problems, including the disposition to oe made of the treaty of peace and the League c f Nations, but this country's troubles are as nothing compared with the difficulties which face Lloyd George as premier of Great Britain. E P. Bell, the distinguished dis-tinguished foreign correspondent, in a cable mccsage from London, defines the griefs confronting the British government as follow:. "Among the preoccupations of the British government are, first, reports from neutral countries that the militarists of Germany are organizing or-ganizing a fresh menace to the allies; second, the growth of political and social unrest in Egypt with the threat of general violence ; third, rebellious intrigue in Ireland and. fourth, the movement of boNhevUt agitation toward the far east and India. Altogether it is doubtful whether any previous government in this country, while earnest iv dc-siring dc-siring to insure peace and justice, was ever 50 perplexed and tried. "Egypt presses for a firm policy of some sort. The nationalistic ii sentiment is intensified by certain hardships inseparable from the suc- j cessful prosecution of the war against the Turks and is rendered addi- I tionally troublesome by bolshevistic infiltration. ! "Unfortunately the whole matter is hampered by the state of war : with Turkey. Mohammed Said Pasha, the Egyptian prime minister has declared that peace with Turkey should precede the coming of the Milner mission. I "America's attitude toward Turkey enters here. The British gov ernment does not know whether America will or will not take part in i helping the countries of the former Turkish empire to get on their fei. Meanwhile Britain and France are concerting plarn based on no American Amer-ican help. Both France and Britain covet American help for two rca- J sons: Because the task is heavy and because they want America to have an intimate knowledge of all that is going on in the old Ottoman territories that malicious conjecture and rumor m?y be checkmated in :the interest of international good feeling. "As to Ireland the government in counsel with its special Irish com- ; mittee is hurrying forward its scheme of Irish .elf-governr enf, not very hopefully perhaps, but honestly and with a hardening detu-mination detu-mination to force its scheme to trial." At present the ov'ook is that America is to take no part in the .vorld readjustment, and is to simply play the part of an indifferent spectator. It is a most ignoble attitude, so self-cei tered as to be discreditable. dis-creditable. , There never was a greater or more worthy service to be performer than the lifting of Armenians out of the clutches of the Turks cr the placing of the Holy Land and Mesopotamia under the influences of modern civilization and enlightenment. But Armenia says, "No. We have no thought a any other nation j or people." |