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"Primary Aim of Peace Treaty Must Be Prevention of War would raise to a maximum the German rania. It should be noted, in parendesire for revenge and reduce to a thesis, that the Germans will not minimum the British and American choose the largest and most controverwillingness to uphold the settlement— sial issues first. They will raise the in short, it would produce the perfect points singly in the hope that the conditions for another explosion. The peace will be whitled away singly, each test is not moral but pragmatic; not concession iweakening the Allies' will whether the Germans deserved it. but to resist and increasing the crisis of whether it will work. confidence in the Allied camp. They It is true that some supporters of will hope to repeat the Ruhr crisis of Carthaginian peace believe the co1928 before moving on to a repetition operation or non-co-operation of the of the remilitarisation of 1935 or the two great Western Allies to be of no re-entry into the Rhineland of 1936. great importance. They argue that Nothing in the history of the United Russia will maintain the stiff peace, States or Great Britain suggests that pose is unquestionably the prevention Defective in its failure to appreciate in company with the smaller European they are incapable of repeating the of further war. By no other criterion the moral issues— which are the ftmdacountries, if possible with the support mistakes of the inter-war years. After can the effectiveness of a proposed anental issues—of the problem of set. of the West, but if necessary alone. this war two distinct trends of opinion treaty be judged. Will it preserve the tlement with Germany, this article This view makes two quite unjustified in both countries will weaken the two peace—not perhaps in perpetuity, but from "The Economist," London, is yet assumptions. The first is that Russia, nations' determination to enforce all at least for a reasonable span, the full one of the most realistic and persuasive exhausted and overstrained by the the treaty, all the time. The first is lifetime of a man, or the passage of a Isolationism, tending unconsciously tocomments on the question published war, will be prepared to carry out century? Judged according to this by a secular j ournal :it provides timesingle-handed the burden of policing wards Pacifism. It is very strong in supreme standard, the treaty apparly antidote to the news and views of and quelling 70,000,000 Germans: the America, particularly in relation to ently proposed for Germany is open to the daily press. European quarrels. There is also a .other, that Russia would take a beneone verdict only. It will be a very volent view of a British and American strong current in Great Britain, if bad treaty. Far from banishing the move to withdraw from the commitnot of Isolationism, then of lazy, wishfear of wars, it makes its return a cerments or to modify the settlement in ful thinking and indifferentism. If, Those critics, among them " The tainty. Germany's favour. Given the still after 10 years of peace, the Germans Economist," who have accused the Let us assume that the provisions are rather suspicious attitude which the were to raise a clamour to modify this Government of having no policy for fulfilled. All round Germany, fringes great Allies adopt towards each other, or that section of the territorial settle. Germany, must now acknowledge that of entirely German land have been is it not much more likely that Russia, ment, can one doubt that powerful they were wrong. There is a policy. transferred to Germany's neighbours. faced with British and American temsections of the daily Press would reply Even though it has not yet been offiIts populations, which will still be some porising or counsels of moderation, with the counter-clamour: " No war for cially announced, semi-official stateseventy millions, will have been swolwould suspect, not weakness or IsolaMunster, " No war for Mannheim;" or ments, declarations from the smaller len by refugees from the lost bordertionism, but a deep plot to woo Ger"No war for Stettin"? Can one doubt allies, rumours and Press reports, all la cis. The country may be economans into closer understanding with that equally powerful sections of the point towards a peace with indemnimically crippled or militarily weak, yet the West to Russia's detriment, a conBritish people• led, as like as not by ties, reparations, annexations of terriits sense of outrage and grievance will spiracy to rebuild the anti- Bolshevik a 1930 version of Lord Baldwin would tory, and transfers of population. lead it to devote its entire national enfront, ' temporality broken by Hitler's agree that " slight territorial modificaThe most important annexations ergies to undoing the peace. mad attack of 1911? If so, Russia's tions" did not justify a war? foreshadowed in the reports cover East obvious move would be to forestall the No one can suppose that the GerThe other stream of thought is idealPrussia, part of which, with Koenigssupposed Western conspiracy by makmans will be reconciled. As Mr. Churchist and liberal. Far from being Isolaberg, is to go to Russia, while the rest, ing its own terms with Germany. Thus ill said, in the debate of August 2, tionist, Statesmen and Publicists in together with large slices of Pomerwould be reproduced the 1939 position, quoting Trotsky: this group would be profoundly interania and Silesia, is to be Poland's with the Germans once again swinging "The destiny of a great nation has ested in Europe and, by 1955, proshare. Parts of Western Germany are, fhe balance of European politics, and never vet been settled by the temporfoundly disturbed by the " harshness it seems, to be annexed to France, Belonce again profiting by the disunity of ary condition of its technical apparaand injustice" of the Allied settlement. gium, and Rolland. In some areas, their enemies to revive the struggle tits." Their conscience would be stirred by for example, in East Prussia and posagainst them one by one. It will, in Or, as he himself wrote in 1938: Germany's at first very moderate apsibly all along the PolishGerman fronthe long run, be alien to Soviet Russia "Whatever the military conditions peals for revision. They would, very tier, the annexations will be accomfar less to dissent from its views of may be, peace can never be established possibly, support the German appeals panied by massive transfers of the Gera settlemedt now, than to accept them between great civilised countries upon for revision. In any case, their doubts, man inhabitants either to Germany or and then spend 20 years running away the brutal execution of the rights of scruples, and hesitations would greatly to forced labour abroad. The Sudefrom them. Let us not accept oblione side over the other:" reinforce the Isolationists and Paci. tenland will also, it appears, be cleared fists in opposing strong action to se- gations we shall not fulfil. It follows, therefore, that the peace of all its Germans. In all, the trans(Continued on Back Cover.) cure the peace. Remembering the rewill have to be maintained by force— fer may cover as many as 10,000,000 vulsion against the Treaty of Versailand force means, literally, the victors' souls. It would be pleasant if those les, that very moderate and lenient set• Again Pre-War Quality Roof Paint, readiness to go to war, whatever arreports could be disregarded, but their tlement, can bne doubt that a really 28/- N . Mill White,V. tin. Hassell's, ticle of the treaty may be violated. source, their nature, their persistence Carthaginian peace would lose all its 669 Wellington Street, The need to use force , will not, of unfortunately make that impossible: popular support in a very few years? course, be apparent in the first years they have to be believed. Although Thus, at the very time when resoluafter this war, when the victors might the precise terms are not yet known, Wm. A. YOUNG tion and a united front nwere necessary be most ready to use it, and when in there can be no doubt that they add to quell a resurgent Germany, it is aJl FAMILY BUTOHER. any case. Germany will lie in the up to a Carthaginian peace. too . robable that the British and AmCorner JOHN & FITZGERALD slough of defeat. The need for force The aim of apeace treaty, Carthaginericans would vacillate, temporise, and STREETS. PERTH. will be compelling only in ten or fifian or otherwise, is, above all, to avoid
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the recurrence of war. Other aims enter in—the punishment of the guilty, the reversal of injustice, the restitution of damage done—but the primary pur-
teen years' time when the Germans will have recovered sufficient strength
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