The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-04-25

traordinary round Of festivities was
provided. and amid IT all the master
diplomats Of the epoch (Tnlleyrand.
Metternich and Castlereagh) played
their games of intrigue. The unprec-
edented decisions of this congress
dominated the course of European
statesmen for 40 years.
The Crimean war (1S54-6) was con-
cluded by another Treaty of Paris,
which admitted the Porte to the Eu-
ropean concert and guaranteed the in
tegrity of the Ottoman empire. The
document was signed March 30 1856.
after nearly five weeks OF negotia-
tions.
The Settlement Of 1871.
The Franco Prussian war was
brought to an end when preliminaries
of peace treaty We're agreed to at
THEIRS on February %. 1871 The
formal treaty was taken up by con
ference IS Brussels OH March %.
Signature Of the compact was accom-
l,lshed at Frankfort on May 10, the
negotiations thus lasting six weeks.
After Russians overwhelming sue
cess in her war against Turkey in
1S77-S, she enforced severe terms by
the Treaty. Of San Stefano (March 3,
1879. Thereupon congress OF the
powers was called at Berlin to settle
questions involved in what Austria
and Great Britain regarded as the I'M
due ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the Petrogrnd
nothal-pp which
included among It's delegates Sails
bury. Beaconsfield, Bismarck. and
Andrassy, met on June -, and closed
IT'S labors just one month later. The
treaty which was signed stripped
Russia of a large share of the fruits
of her victory.
Settlement of the Spanish-American
war in 1898 required negotiations that
lasted two months and nine days.
The first session of the ENJOYS took
place in Paris on October l. In late
November there seemed tc be danger
Of a breaking Off of the parley but
the difficulty was smoothed out ana
the treaty was signed on December ~.
IT took 81 days for the Russian and
Japanese delegates to reach an agree
nent ut Portsmouth. N. H.. in 1899
thus ending their comparatively brief
but sanguinary war. They held their
first meeting on August 9, and peace
was signed on September 5.
First Hague Conference.
IT was in this same year that the
| first peace conference was held at
| The Hague. At the instance of the
ear of Russia 81 European countries
and the United States, Mexico, China,
Japan. Persia and Siam sent repre-
sentatives to confer with regard to
concerted action to maintain general
peace. The first meeting of this con-
clave, which was hailed at the time
as a highly promising effort for the
Punishment of war. was held on May
t1S. 1890. Conclusions were reached
and final act signed on July %, the
conference having thus lasted two
months and eleven days.
Even more impressive in the char
| acter of the personnel and the seri-
BUSINESS Of the deliberations was the
second Hague conference, held in 1907
at the call Of President Roosevelt
/ Forty-six nations sent diplomats in
ternational experts, and political lead
ers to this gathering, and the conclu-
sions. accepted or rejected by the
various powers in the discussion Of
/ the broad range of proposals, aiming
| for peace or at least n mitigation OF
wars evils, have an almost cynical in
terest in the light of the great war.
The conference was in session for four
months and three days, opening on
June Is and adopting a statement Of
principles on October Is.
The present assemplage in Paris Is
in effect a Hague conference and a
treaty-making body rolled into one.
Twenty-six countries are formally rep
] resented in the plenary gatherings.