[108] Lysis, author of _Demain_, and many other remarkable studies of economic problems, and editor of _Le Démocratie Nouvelle_, May 30, 1919. [109] For an account of analogous bargainings with Bela Kuhn, see the Chapter on Rumania. [110] Bearing the number 3882. [111] On October 12, 1918, and February 1, 1919 [112] On February 4, 1919. [113] _La Démocratie Nouvelle_, May 30, 1919 [114] See his admirable article in _The New York Herald_ (Paris edition) of May 21, 1919, from which the following extract is worth quoting: "I have said that certain great forces have steadily and occultly worked for a German peace. But I mean, in fact, one force--an international finance to which all other forces hostile to the freedom of nations and of the individual soul are contributory. The influence of this finance had permeated the Conference, delaying the decisions as long as possible, increasing divisions between people and people, between class and class, between peace-makers and peace-makers, in order to achieve two definite ends, which two ends are one and the same. "The first end was so to manipulate the minds of the peace-makers, of their hordes of retainers and 'experts,' as to bring about, if possible, a peace that would not be destructive to industrial Germany. The second end was so to delay the Russian question, so to complicate and thwart every proposed solution, that, at last, either during or after the Peace Conference, a recognition of the Bolshevist power as the _de facto_ government of Russia would be the only possible solution." [115] "What confidence can be commanded by men who, asserting one week that the ultimate of human wisdom has been attained in a document, confess the next week that the document is frail? When are we to believe that their confessions are at an end?"--_The Chicago Tribune_ (Paris edition), August 23, 1919. [116] _The Chicago Tribune_ (Paris edition), July 31, 1919. [117] M. Affonso Costa, who shortly before had succeeded the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Monas Egiz. [118] Dedeagatch. [119] See _Rapports et Enquêtes de la Commission Interalliée sur les Violations du droit des gens commises en Macédoine Orientale par les armées bulgares_. The conclusion of the report is one of the most terrible indictments ever drawn up by impartial investigators against what is practically a whole people. [120] _Zora_, August 11th. Cf. _Le Temps_, August 28, 1919. [121] Mr. Charles House published a statement in the press of Saloniki to the effect that the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions forbids missionaries to take an active part in politics. He added that if this injunction was transgressed--and in Paris the current belief was that it had been--it would not be tolerated by the Missionary Board, nor recognized by the American government. [122] _The Daily Mail_ (Paris edition), March 31, 1919. [123] _The Daily Mail_ (Paris edition), April 6, 1919.