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Show FRUIT OF WAR WON IN NEAR EASTJS GONE Sacrifices Made By Entent Thrown Away At Lausanne, Laus-anne, Claim BY AXDHK TARDIFJ . Former Preach High CoMmlssloiuSf to tho United states. (Copyright, 1922, by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) PARIS, Dee. j --The fruits Of lc-tory lc-tory have been abandoned- While It In not yet known whether the Turks will accept the proponnl that they retain tho Dardanelles, guaranteeing free use to all nations, the fact that It was offered, Is a confession of weakness. weak-ness. International control of tho Btralta, one of tho outstanding policies poli-cies of the war. thuM passes from tho domain of Tacts to the domain of word In every single one of his strong speeches In America Clemeneenu shows how forgetfulness has enveloped envelop-ed the world And how can we wonder won-der that many things have been forgotten for-gotten on the other side of tho Atlantic At-lantic when we seo other nations which spilt the beat of their blood Ignoring Ig-noring the plainest lesions of the war only four years aft r the armistice. WHAT TURKEY DID. The military and political role played play-ed by the straits in the world struggle strug-gle was tremendous. By giving refugo to the Goben and the lireslau in August, Aug-ust, 1914, and later by tho use of mines and forts closing them to military mili-tary and commercial traffic the Turks changed tho whole conditions of the war. This action decide, ', u l garla to throw her lot with Germany, compelled Greece's long hesitancy, and allowed the Rumanian collapse. Worse yet, by Isolating Russia It prepared tho way for bolshevism and Broft-Lltovsk. Broft-Lltovsk. Closing the straits olloweu transfer of half a million troops from thi eastern to the western front m 1917-18. bringing tho British disaster In I'lcardy In March, 1918; tho French disaster at Chomlnle Dames in May. Add to these the thousands who fell In Galllpoll and Saloniki and recall what this all meant in prolonging pro-longing the vv;ir. On tho very' Jay of victory an International In-ternational watch over the straits was seen by all clear-headed Europeans to be as necessary as watch over the Rhine. I'ROPOSD ( OXDF.MNFJX Now what's the present proposal? It is vague and means nothing and Is an equivocal compromise which can only be a perpetual temptation to trie n.-rtlons bordering tho Black and tho Aegean seas No reason existed ror this capitulation to sovietlsm. The interallied in-terallied agreement of September 25 provided genuine freedom of mo straits, yet everyone now hastens fo accept the solution suggested by experts ex-perts It is accepted under most humiliating hu-miliating conditions After Ismet Pasha refused to explain himself, after Tchitcherln reiterated his provocative provo-cative insolences, the powers wield. If war begins again tomorrow the same causes which existed In 1912 are oe-lng oe-lng reproduced and the allies must be prepared to renew their bloody sac. rlflccs In 1916. Under the present arrangement the French will leave Gallipoll and the British. Chanak. The blindest cannot fall to realizo the threats existing The Turco-Russo alliance negotiated In July. 1919. and signed in March. 1921, was completed! by the Russo-German treaty of 1922 and was openly flouted before the Lausanne conference began. When the Turk stops talking the Bolshevik speaks for both. Their interests have ', ben pooled and tho program is common com-mon to both. Foreigners cannot grt into Russia European colonics at Brusa and elsewhere havo been mo-lested mo-lested both as to property and per-On. per-On. Grave disquietude reigns in Constantinople. Con-stantinople. It Is tho revenge of the Crescent and tho Scimitar against the cross and western civilisation. The Turks are skicere when they say thay do not want the French among them. I However Lausanne results, whether, the Turks and Russlens accept the weak proposals mado to them, the result Is the same. Our occidental prestige in the Orient is destroyed HOW could it be otherwise In view of the incoherent preparations of tho powers for the conferences of London Lon-don and Brussels demonstrating thr eagerness of the governments which won the war to lose the peace. Polncare went to Ixmdon Friday 1 without any dtflnlto program for in agreement between the French and British. The Belgians aro determined 1 not to ossumo the initiative. The Italians do not seem to know yet what they desire, and while Fascist! principles prin-ciples are clear enough, their application appli-cation methods are vague. Can gold marks spring, full armed like Mi-nerva, Mi-nerva, from this unfilled soil? I am! not sure that even enthusiasts can 1 be convinced of that. For myself, I am hopelessly unconvinced. ' I |
