. Review of reviews and world's work . fixedperiods or terminable upon notice. It wasknown last month that President Wilson, be-sides submitting the Peace Treaty (with itscovenant of the League of Nations) to theSenate for ratification, would also submit aproposal to the efifect that the United Stateswould join Great Britain in helping Francein case of a ruthless attack. America has no desire to be in- Ameriea as i , • i • i rr • c Umpire, volved m the mternal anairs oi JVot Meddler t^ n^i, • r. hurope. 1 he prommence orPresident Wilson and the American dele-gates at Paris has by no means been
. Review of reviews and world's work . fixedperiods or terminable upon notice. It wasknown last month that President Wilson, be-sides submitting the Peace Treaty (with itscovenant of the League of Nations) to theSenate for ratification, would also submit aproposal to the efifect that the United Stateswould join Great Britain in helping Francein case of a ruthless attack. America has no desire to be in- Ameriea as i , • i • i rr • c Umpire, volved m the mternal anairs oi JVot Meddler t^ n^i, • r. hurope. 1 he prommence orPresident Wilson and the American dele-gates at Paris has by no means been due toa disposition to meddle or intrude. It hasbeen due to the very simple fact that noother power at the Peace Conference has beendisinterested. If the French delegation hadnot been absorbed in trying to obtain securityand reparation for France, the Ministrywould have been upset, and the Clemenceaugroup w^ould have been whisked out of thePeace Conference in a jif^y. The Britishdelegation, while conducting itself with great. HE WAS BOUND TO GET IX WRONG [The infants presented to the umpire are labeled torepresent the various claims of English, French, Italian,Polish, Russian, and even the enemy] (From the Neivs (Detroit, Mich.) breadth and consideration, had, nevertheless,to consider a far larger number of specialinterests than those of any other power con-cerned in the affair excepting Germany United States had nothing whateverthat it was seeking except the establishmentof justice and the settlement of problems insuch a w^ay as to provide stable equilibriumfor the future. For this reason the inter-position of the American delegates was de-manded in every direction, and America thusbecame umpire-in-chief. American citizensand newspapers that snarled at Wilson formeddling in affairs that were no concern ofhis were, of course, the victims either of ill-temper or of sheer ignorance. It was, as mostpeople have been able to see, precisely be-cause these affairs w
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