The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1919-05-02
4epoliations 81 Modern Cove
nanas That Ended Wars Have
Often Talen Months
MTaeut Common EElIuK
iArsas sas&ss ts'~sfse4 In tn essfss
rssnn " the Last rhrss cartarsss
--kssness M,ses al Church
Seek AassHtAe~.

New York. The making NJ treaties
sas always besf, ttne-consamlns
process aimee the days when TIA
ssHdaI lord or naoaarrh could say n
ais beaten foe. accept these terms Oh
Gle. Then the llfnfss Of personal forcs
end ambition wvra the oaly curb on
the sietor's demands, with the sea'
st daughters or other relatives to bs
pssns In the game, execution OF mar
rsage scaling the hateful Dargasa,
But with the development az states
into sotn~thtns more than The lniivla
BAL property " kings and ssuperoFs
and .hs broadening af lrterrstiuas'
relations the resulting clashes cl
srms ofiea lasting for years. were
rmfeiy brought TO close except stte'
rssntiatiuns tha. lasted tar weeks "A
months, over the documents that ss,'
lee tho religious. political. ~ terri
tar'al questions at issue. the keenesl
minds u church and state fought fol
,dsRhtage IatFigues sitd seerst deaA'
sere normal Inriicni n the hattie
n ~Its, when more ,aaa two countries
we're Involved In the dlffsculty.
Many nf the peace treaties VI the
| last three centuries are the lan4fna ri
~ their period, ending " beginning
an eta In which the future develop
men; 81 peoples or nations was usStn
ttely determined
Peace cf Westnhalia.
Such II history naking event was
III" Peace NJ Wrs'phllia t8isi. which
saded the Thirty Years war The last
~ the great conflicts between Cattal
Ictsm and Professionalism. beginning
~ strife s.'tNetn German States, d.
vSsissi ssss ss',i.sAe,ss l,ls,s, n ,Daissss IT,
solved France, Spain, Sweden, ror'
tugal. the Netherlands. Switzerland,
and many itslian states
In ltAl pr,iimlnarivs ~ peace were
hsreed upon at Hamburg by the al.
ready wvarssf contestants, bat Il was
three years before = eongrr~a 10 set.
u, terms was opened and ftur years
after that when tirst TREATIES were
agnrs, at osnahrtics and Munster.
towns of wcstphaIia A general and
complete peace was fiually signed Ut
Munster on October a. i64s,
AT la-ahspeilc. VA May z. 1868
was signed the first ireaty, known by
the nama IT that town, This was the
rlirnas % the siruggIr between France
and Spain for the possessinn Ut The
Spanish Netherlands. TN the death
Of Philip " ~ Spatp, Louis XIV
r,almei a large par, Of the neither.
A.ls tn Ia name nt hts wtfe. a
daughter VI rhlIln The Dutch.
alarmed ~ 'Ne French pretenIons,
xhich were backed by aggressive
miiitAry action, summoned England
and Sweden Ia her aid aud halted the
French advance, Under the treaty
Louis kept portions NJ FLANDERS which
His forces had nverrun
The Pence ~ RysNics, which WINS
signed az she Dutch village on The
outskirts OF The Hague In lfssT. end,
81 a struggle * ulne years between
~ranee aud the Grand Alliance. a term
which ultimately Included England.
Holland. Savoy. the Holy Roman eni-
pirv. RrSn$ivnhurg, sweden. Spaln.
sAxony and the Falatinate. A con.
sr~&s ~ ENJOYS held sessions during
r. ~, 81 the summer cf 1907 and f1al.
~ty Ssns~f treaty sf r-ac~ so "srY-
temher m, THIS virtually rr~soret all
territorial matters TO the status quo
ate. bet the chic. result was IN cheek
the ambitions ~ Louis under whose
rule france had become the FIRST power
"a the continent. sapplantlnx Spsln
Usrssht's Epceh.Maklea Aorssmsss.
The Peace ct Utrecht was tip next
rrea, agreement between the 4uArr~t.
scme powsr~ Of Eurcps II ~sS in
A;S. q asr.es Of agreements between