THE W.A. RECORD.
SATURDAY, JURY 21, 1919.
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The Peace Treaty. City they labour " Unless the Lord build the
in vain who build it."
to last, prayer, and so far, from first Chris opened without public of the representatives mere that hope beg Is it too much to of the Almighty. world, will before they disperse, there has been no recognition to lay the foundations of a new and a happier hoping work." are their who upon tian peoples, the blessing of God
"The proceedings of the
of peace for which
as much
Peace Conference were
must be as possible, plunder
must bear the
But she has sinned and very depth of And the humiliation. that she the humiliation demands fettered should be the more securely her bonds. lest she attempt to break humiliating a The political wisdom of be doubtnation to such an extent may being But German arrogance ed. also what it is, it is to be doubted be would whether any half measures country. In effective in regard to that seems any case the greatest humiliation the League to lie in her exclusion fromconsequences the --all the rest being it is unquestionable that
gue
has been empowered
to
revise
binding power. all past treaties having been restored to Alsace-Lorraine has by a curious integral rights. But
be paid to indemrestored, money must her which fared money is insufwhere and oversight the Papal States in the same loss, nify than Alsace-Lorraine back to the must be made in worse compensation ficient given in boats, etc. year, have not been kind, in coal, in ships, conflicting nations Pope to right all The cruel wrongs done to Belgium, destined covenant sea new by the of the delicate wrought order and jusTo settle the rest the wanton destruction wrongs, restore universal into the newand the ravDeus-exmachina vandalism convenient a the earth air; questions the and tice, guide is known as nain the occupied territories, is at last formuhas been found in what with found orbit of peace CEYLON ME& ages worked --but principle two for this On be compensated selection. tional unwas lated, comments the momentous hu- must all done and Techecho-Slonew States, Poland this difference: the injury it was sudSENGER. The most Germany has history, it follows calculated, is incalculable; vakia, have been created, man document in without most stupendous den and rapid; it made no difference the been geographically remodelledthe pro greatest, the circumupon (still the beginning conditions, classes or aggra- therof-and her voice being heard is repugnant to inclusion her war ever waged since an ambit hither- between everything now to just Austria wiped tended cess of purification) and stances, of creation. It covers the conscience of nations Nevertheless The reparation is calthe map As for the members injury. us to strives after an acoff help the and clean may vate reasons to encompassed they have calculation must always though all these spirit of the treaty, we since the herof the League themselves, by hievement unattemptedplains of Sen- culated-where --slow in opera- understand the necessary tried to evade mutual recrimination be short of the reality humiliation, ex. this in culean fiasco on the that German the fear of first organised and of the government date the word last methodical future placing the tion, some is at It for be, will !mar in the in political abil- ecution, giving every opportunity The though it theme for a bitterer hymn colonies on a similar principle League men in the first of ages supply the the attain- the elimination of undue hardship. hands of the Council of sung Unter der ever was ity and general intellectual even than severe. But hate are of mind degener- exactions made on Germany through delegatory Powers. The evil of it may be urged ments since the human Linden is the It has not worked out sue. replacing the ships sunk If for Adam. of principle call this fall The unavoidable, the and one, ated after on the ton, may at is a necessary reason as by her torpedoes, ton for lex talionis. imperfection of eessfully. Italy is recalcitrant ultimate conception of pure for all the so it only shows the to govern the first appear to be a formbeof rendered for the best human dispensations and the question of Fiume, which a universal Providence spelled be a nawarmth it has elicited may Portugal But what account can universe of men. and the fitter impossibility of converting Of the minor Powers logic The Fume. prelives wantonly destroyedAnd who, doubt the no enactments. must figtion by political Such a document the hy. ill -satisfied because she does not in which griefs ruthlessly inflicted? and deof the treaty is unassailable oncriminal. is sufficiently in the new division of sent many and varied aspectsfirst of all, ure is a looking on desolated Belgium may It Germany those that that viewed. that pothesis be say grumbling may is it to the world, and China vastated France, will measure weighed ex But no one can compel a German' by way of cons be regarded as the war Japan has been favoured at her not countries get too much and rethat his country started the admit out to the German nation guilty compensation The of pense but pensation? on criminally, it blood, carried and least country's the own its criminally only of a stitution asked for is surely of heroes and as long as he does not admit this, On this foundation, then, already Germany was guilty a world's woe. complete, his in the that the blood of thousandswhich they treaty of 1919 will wrinkle in dis- little shaky and only intopart the for guilty in the origin of the inwar, lands It the built for be in is can win the menbosom, If this treaty succeeds curing the Palace of Peace a special system conduct of the war, and and the abusing the German mind and will we is to be endowed with tality inspiring both the one on which died. kept sii, by the labtemporarily constructed indeed and then being of finance Germany This is the hypothesis other that it of its arrogance If not, our of the world unified under a univer It is its justifi- of the League of Nations itbefollows welcome it unconditionally. the treaty is based. and if made completion; key to its some provisions should Will it see sal code. only time will show what we fear. cation and it supplies the to see that she does of completed will it stand firm? aspect another guarantees secured to right understanding. of now To turn ruin the work corassern not in the meantime Long ago the mer, of Sennar a city that peace of the treaty. Every sin demands retribution, the League and imperil if not purely obbled together and began to build the rective and satisfactory is elimination of war, the peaceful which The to in was world, with the whereof alliance top erection is done in the and a tower the punitory. And every governance of the world, the separatheir conject of the treaty. This ex proreach to heaven. To punish temple of Peace raisiquity entails with it ipso facto sections new a of earth fourteenth en and them the unholy sixth deemed tion from the good until by due sat- fesao, and incidentally in most of the ed on the pillars of the five great na- ceit, and because they confused their not selves all -sufficient, God alliance is sundered and is the second, though Germany's army and tions-such of sections other load them into all the scattered compact. tongues and isfaction and reparation justice and navy are to be limited; her waterways the secondary, object of this To-day the men of dispersed lands. disposal, her of Nations is formed wrong is unweighted and League a everyone's this at For in be to rear to needle are supreme nations are summoned together whole provinces peace meet at the balancing with a council invested with which strategic ports, towns, peace a city and tower of Peace perennial up commissions, and the k;ss of reconciliation. by Perfect power be administered wrested debars Ger- are to within this League. is to last to the end of time-to inbuild, reign entirely is course of accordingly power must, treaty the overseas The her of the rest not in the might of God, but economic the League of It must then ensure the peace many from entry into from her, she is to give every nothing pur own intellects and in their double of demands this power the gets effect as To she time while of the world. their Nations till such facility to others, reparation ventions. How will God consider His part of her pro- pose a sound foundation is needed. All of justice are satisfied. The of in return. All this is and should he revised, action? Will He make it part as a by justice and purification, treaties and previous retribution of it and satisfaction required cess be annulled Providence or will He regard We may these necessary some to be recast, some to entails humiliation. the time within which have challenge and confound their foolish are then as such vanquishWrongful annexations of territoryof the conditions are to be fulfilledand eighth indeed question whether any humili to he righted. The members wisdom by a cataclysm worse than deeply seventh so been the in has ed country delineated the own poll- the confusion of tongues? "Unless the would be if she signed Those responsible foe League must agree as to their Germany as sections. ated Lord build the city they labour in vain excluding the content with tical standing. cruelties of the war, not this treaty which, not who build it " hands, over to be her Leahanded the binding be of to and Council are Kaiser, crippling her, Accordingly the caused by her own house. in drudge a her tried, the loss and damage makes be compensated ruthless warfare are to
The great treaty world has the heart of an anxious five years, the throbbed for well-nigh to gather scattered great pact which is in the bond of unity,
New Bishops for Alsace-Lorraine. of the native French population In 1913 he was con- terests day of decese in 1907. of the diocese, and when the the s;overnout, Me,r. in points Bishop, his pertinently to made came, in their name and Coadjutor publiverance the secrated risked announcement A now unusual ment would never have when the call to the of the great majority of the clergy, the But that recentunless decree Turinaz. a OFFICIEL wet of war in lication of such in the JOURNAL with offered a sincere and enthusiastic Colours came on the outbreak of to been settled in accord the great difficulhastened come to the armies and Governmentmen ly shows that one of of the religious matter had concerned --the the following year he closely to most two these of those chaplain The choice chosen as a France. and ties in the settlement was Sees, of and two the obey, of provinces joy by Pope, the Bishops So devoted was the sercannot fail to be hailed with question of the redeemed successfully its choice the troops. been mentiot. the people of the two provinces, for the the candidates upon whom Alsace-Lorraine has he rendered that he was ana proof of that vice that as And From given have fallen. was has the Day, and Pope and the Government and amicably solved. that the French made by ed in the Order of and an we have the announcement of the Legion of a Lorraine Bishop to Lorraine the of Chevalier nouncement we learn a Biscreated appointment new its of the Holy See of Novem- Alsatian by birth to Alsace. Government has nominated Honour. Then by a decree the rank Thus, whether it was of Strasburg and two Bishops. hops to the Sees rule for the ber 19, 1917, he was raised to Ruch, German Mgr. under Upon the larger and future bearings custom the former, Ordinary of the mobfor Metz: to the of Berlin to nominate or of Inspector and on the death of tnat to the latter, its of the incident we need say little, Government and Nancy, of Bishop ilised priests, and, The transac to agree to the nominations they are almost too obvious to call for Vicar-General, Mgr. Pelt. credit on all merelyby the Holy See, these latest ap- sturdy "Bishop of the Frontier," Mgr, But it stands us a practical remark. was appointM. tion is one which reflects upon the two made Strasburg, Turinaz, in October last, corroboration of the declaration of an pointments to Metz and in the See of Nancy. concerned, and especially the successor his as between ed promade thus is above alluded to, and as have been has Ribot which Metz, replacement of -elect whose Bishop the prelates the Bishop of illustration of the wisdom of the call two authorities concerned, showa con Mgr, Pelt, which holds vided for--Mgr. BenAer, Bishop of M into also behind him a record made by men like M. Paul Deloncle: necessity of France entering the future. By for hopes Metz, and Mgr. Fritzen, illushigest and the out these Vatican. the M. Lazure Weiller and M that with flanotaux, means of versation it office For the of Strasburg an his successful tenure of self-sacri de Monzie for the resumption, in some trates the success which follows at. which he prelates, with a fine spirit of religious Vicar -General of the diocese as Bishop, straightforward and worthy form, of understanding thus loyally arrived for the sake rule to upon 4,- s have, called now with Rome, so is have at the disposiof its needs the diplomatic relations As to the nominations, they ace, placed their rights he has gained a knowledge its clergy that the and imprudently broken by abruptly unexceptionas hailed with everywhere oil of the Holy See, and been and an acquaintance If Rome has need of has acted loyally fail to be of M. Combes. Mgr. Ruch, who is to succeed French Government and people which cannot obtains in the able. Bendier at Strasburg, has the France, France has, to say the least, to himself and Mgr. upon the system that Hole See was advantage utmost and, as Cardinal the Rome, birth equal need of The double merit of being Alsatian by sertwo provinces. lie is a man, we are assur to them. Gasparri has said, she is too great a listen to the proconspicuous of rendered having of and clear-sightedness, therefore left free to ed, of singular and, as the he personage to enter the Vatican by a and vice during the war. Born in 1873, posals of the Government,way worthy, happy combination of benevolencenever If the Pope's love for Catholi back door. every in Institut the were has of nominees was a student There firmness, and of a tact which them deFrance were doubted, she has his re. the confirm gaining deliafter and and most the Paris, of accept of test to que failed under the and a cent declaration of it, which was surbeen that "talk with He stood 'nrth has thus evidently grees of a Doctor of Theology cate circumstances. M. Ribot deproprising in its warmth; and now, in this rule as the faithful Rome" which years ago of the Chain Licentiate in Literature, became a German the under Nancy acceptance and ratification of the Carl. of tribune Seminaire inthe Grand spiritual from at the the clared and fearless defender of for religious fessor dio1898, and Vicar -General of the tier would be necessary in PARIS For, as the ECHO DE peace -