New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

In recent editorials The Tribune has called
attention. to the parallel between the inter
Allied conferences now meeting in Paris and
the congress It Chaumont, in February, 1914,
which pledged the four allies, England, Aus
tria, Prussia and Russia, to fight until France
was restored to the limits Of 1892 sit is for
the new allies" said The Tribune, ito make
another agreement, which shall establish for
themselves and for the world the essential
fact that this war is to be fought until the
enemy is defeated, until the danger that has
so long threatened all Of US is abolished, unti'
/ Germany is returned to these limits which
correspond to the limits OF France IN 1872
the limits which are rightfully and justly
/ hers"
/ A further and in some respects, an even
more significant parallel can be drawn be-
tween the present conference and that which
met at Vienna beginning in November 1914.
At Chaumont even Lord Castlereagh favored
Signing a peace with Bonaparte, provided
no act of the French nation speedily over
throw him." and after the allies reached
Paris and Napoleon abdcated, the Treaty of
Paris april II, 1910 was concluded between
Napoleon, acting through his plenipoten-
| tiaries, and the allied monarchs.
The Vienna Conference
| On November 1 the allied diplomats-rep-
resenting all ''the most illustrious person
ages in Europe"-met at Vienna TO resettle
Europe in accordance with the Treaty OF
Paris. Their conference was prolonged into
the next year, and while they were still in
session March 1879 came word that Ma
polcon had left Elba, had been received with
/ acclamations in France and was to renew
/ the war The powers therefore adopted the
\ Treaty of Vienna March %, 1879, which re-
newed that Of Chsumont and determined the
/ duties ot each in the war 1t promised that
no peace would be made with Napoleon, and
on March 13 the conference issued declara-
| ton the violent wording of which is not
without great interest at the present time.
NAPOLEON, it was said, "has placed himself
without the pale of civil and social relations,
and that, as an enemy and disturber of the
I tranquility of the world, he has rendered
/ himself liable to public vengeance The
po,vers promised to employ all their means
and unite all their efforts in order that the
general peace, the object of the wishes Of Eu-
rope, and the constant purpose OF their Ia
bors, may not again be troubled"
/ At the same time Lord Csstlereagh, in
order to guard against the charge that this
declaration favored the restoration of the
Bourbons by force, disclaimed any obligation
on England "to prosecute the war with
view of imposing upon France any particular
government" Later, on May s, Lord Clan
/ carty who had succeeded Wellington as
British Plenipotentiary at Vienna, sent 10
/ Castlereagh a state paper which difusely
yet so completely expressed the attitude OF
the allies toward Napoleon that it will bear
quotation. It's language may we'll be recalled
when we ore waiting for similar declaration
from The conference in Paris, and With the
substitution Of Germany" for France" 1t
might very we'll do for a statement OF the
present position of the Allies.
Because No Faith Kept"
"They the powers are in a state o. hos
/ tili.y with him and his adherents, not from
choice. but from necessity, because past ex-
pe-ience has shown that no faith has been
kept By him and that no reliance can be
placed or the professions OF one who has
| hitherto no longer regarded the most solemn
compaets than it may have suited his cen
venience TO observe them; whose word, the
on,y assurance he can afford for his peace
able disposition, is not less in direct opposi-
ton TO the tenor OF his former life than it is
to the military position in which he is setu-
ally placed. They feeb that they should
neither perform their duty to themselves nor