The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-06
TWO OR THREE REMINDERS.


century ago. after four great powers had succeeded
in forming an alliance and frustrating Napoleons at
tempt to make himself overload of Europe, they made
the mistake of apsng into absolute seshness and there
fore into discussion. Taleyand instantly took advan
tage of the situation to Maneuver France into position
Of Equality with the Four, although their alliance was
made solely against France Once admitted as an equal
into the Congress of Vienna Talleyrand videned the
breach between the allies and France emerged the real
victor.
There was talk at Vienna of forming league of ma
tons to enforce peace But it amounted to nothing more
than talk partly because the Corscan ogre escaped from
Eba and frightened Europe out of its wits The con-
gress adjourned just before Waterloo without having
organized any league to enforce peace The act dis
posing of nations and peoples was fractured, and
Europe resumed its habit of making whenever states
men disagreed
Several important warnings to the nations
cated in the against Germany be derives from
study of the Congress of Vienna The most important
warning of course is against the danger of dssensOn
and if the allies wise they will not ignore the fact that
selfish striving for undue advantage is the first cause Of
dissension Another important warning is that which
shows the danger of admitting defeated enemy into the
peace conference as equal The third warning of
Importance just is that which reminds the allies that
they must make their peace arrangements permanently
secure either by continuance of their present alliance
against the enemy nations or by equally effective
method If the world is not yet ready for a league of
nations nevertheless Germany and the other enemy
tons must be bound to keep the peace And this
binding process must be made not by arrangement with
the Germans themselves and depending upon their prom
ises, but in such to make it impossible for
treachery to do its work.
The Germans are cunning. They will inevitably de-
mand place at the conference table at Paris Talley
rand will from Berlin plausbly explaining that the
Germany of the Hohenzollerns is thing of the past;
that Germany is free nation anxious to enter into
peaceful and friendly relations with all other nations
Upon this showing he will insist that if free Germany
denied place equal, the peace conference will
work injustice to the spirit of liberty and thus the
seeds of war He will reason that the conference is for
peace not war; and that if Germany should be excluded
the world would be proclaimng that there to be
universal peace except with Germany against whom there
was to be perpetual hatred and of course war
This German argument would be convincing if it were
based upon the premise of actual change of heart in
Germany, resulting in the actual establishment of free
and honorable government really desiring to make
amends and to deal fairly with its neghbors Without
that premise the German demand for equality at the
peace table will fall to the ground The allied nations
know that Germany has not had change of heart and
there is not the slightest probability that France Great
Britain and Italy will look with favor upon the admis
sion of the nation of perurers and murderers equal
If there confident that the American
peace commissioners would take the view, there
would be instant modification of public opinion in
this country toward the presidents visit to Europe.
To put the matter bluntly, considerable portion OF
the American people apprehended that the presidents
personal presence will tend to soften the allies attitude
toward Germany rather than to encourage them to cnch
the peace that has been SO bloodily purchased.
The project for league of nations takes DINNER
outlines as is approached and is particularly battling
whenever the question is asked, Is Germany to be
member of the league? There natonsFrance is one
of them-which will not belong to any league that Ger
many can enter Therefore it probable that the
problem of cnchng and making permanent the security
Of democracy will have to be solved in other way
Washington Post.
While the nations hold peace conference in Europe
the churches hold peace conference at Philadelphia