The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-05-31
sv EDWARD w. PlcKARD.

The peace treaty with Germany is
completed and the German delegates
have been summoned to Versailles to
receive it on April %.
The associated powers have agreed
that there shall be no military inter
vention in Russia, but that they Will
send food to that country, under neu-
trail control, If the bolsheviki will stop
hostilitieS.
Those were the outstanding features
of the news Of last week, and they bore
out the optimistic assertions that all
was progressing we'll in the great task
Of settling the affairs of the world.
Tie delegation Of Germans named
to 20 to Versailles includes the most
prominent Of the German statesmen
now active in the government. except
Count Won Bernstorf, and though they
will be given time to submit the treaty
to the national assembly at Weimar, 1t
is hoped they will have the authority
and the disposition to accept 1t with
out that fOrmality, thus obViating de-
Law. 1t was asserted in Paris that the
allied governments would not wait be-
yond May Is for q definite answer as
to whether or not Germany would sign
the pact. OF course the press and
public of Germany are wailing with re-
newed agony as it Is made more evil
dent that the Huns will be required to
nav to the uttermost limit Of their re-
sources. and repeatedly the assertion
is made that Germany will not submit
to the terms laid down in what Is
called there a treaty of violence"
Even Prince Lichnowsky Joined the
chorus of protests, saying an unjustly
extorted peace can only bring forth
fresh ornaments, and implying that as
a last resort Germany will go bolshe-
vik."
All discussion of the treaty, outside
the peace congress, is based on unotil-
cial reports, for the allied delegates
decided that it would be foolish, If not
dangerous, to reveal the terms of the
treaty before it was submitted to the
Germans. The public, or considerable
parts Of 1t, in England, France and,
to q less extent, America, objected
strenuously to this policy by which
the German national assembly would
get the treaty before the rest OF the
world; but 1t was sustained by the
French chamber of deputies by vote
of 334 to i66, and it was vigorously de-
Tended by Premier Lloyd George in
his speech in the house of commons.
The British leader argued that If the
terms were made public now there
would of necessity be much spoken
and written criticism Of them, since
II was hopeless to satisfy everyone,
and that those criticisms, reprinted In
Germany, would give the enemy the
false idea that the terms were object
ed to by the British public as too
harsh. which would encourage the
Germans to refuse to sign the treaty.
LLOYD Georges speech was declared
to be one of the most eloquent and
sensational ever heard in the house OF
commons. Primarily, he arose to de-
fend himself against the attacks of his
critics, and he not only did that, but
hurled defiance at those critics. He
declared that his prediction pledges
Of exacting full payment from Ger
many and furnishing the former kaiser
and other guilty Huns were to be
kept; that the peace commissioners
wanted q peace that was just and
sternly severe but not vindictive; that
military intervention in Russia would
be a great blunder, but that the asso-
c.ateG nations would be ready to stop