The sun., 1919-06-30
LONDON SEES GRAVE
PERILS IN TREATY
Fear of Future Looms Up
Strongly as Joy Of Sign
ing Pact Subsidies.
"ACID TEST IN RUSSIA"
German People Favor Revision
or Reputation, Says One
Newspaper.
"ACID TEST IN RUSSIA"
Special Cable Despatch to TEE son.

| LONDON, June 29.--Almoet before the
first burst of Joy over tho signature OF
the Treaty of Peace has subsidized there
has been a. reaction, leaving the joy
makers seriously contemplating the fu-
ture. for the opinion is widespread here.
and Is voiced in practically all the news
papers, that the peace which has been
framed falls far short Of popular an
ticipations, and It remains to be seen II
| the conditions will be fulfilled.
British statesmen realize that the Ger
! man Government which signed the
| treaty Is as unstable as water. ana
while the war with Germany was settled
| by the documents which were signed
! yesterday at Versailles twenty-three
| other wars are raging now in various
parts OF the world. Therefore 1t Ia only
the first stage OF peacemaking that has
been concluded; the remaining emoets
in the world confagration must De
stamped out. This Is the idea RUNNING
through all the British newspaper COM
ment on the signing OF the treaty.
In the Sunday Observer J. !. Garvin'
ono OF the foremost editorial critics our
ing the war, solemnly warns the pupiic
against optimism over peace In the
future. adding:
This treaty goes far beyond It's marx
without the covenant OF the League OF
Nations It would be almost irredeem'
ably bad.
Bunch Of Anomalies Seen.
CLUMSY and laundering, the Paris
conference in its dealings with the new
nations, and with Russia as well as witr
Germany, creates almost as many
Anomalies and perils as 1t removes
Even in its ANAL somewhat improved
form the treaty never will stand with
! out revision peace of force Is ir
no sense a peace OF settlement.
"Ail Europe and much beyond. from
: the Rhineland to Siberia, has been turnet
into a congeries of Irish questions
charged with trouble, which will be In
| terminable unless the League OF Nation'
, and a sounder Russian policy can correc
, It
TT Is the main moral and practica
I object OF the treaty to reach and miti
; gate international hatreds and passions
On the contrary, It has inflamed an'
multiplied the number of territorial ant
8 financial provisions calculated to bree'
and nourish revenge and hatred lor
! long period OF years.
'iThe Allies have overcapitalized thei
;. victory on the basis Of a militarisr
which Great Britain and America canno
!. be remobilized to sustain. yet as direc
| consequence all the forces OF reaction u
Europe are encouraged on the one sid
and those Of anarchy and Bolshevism o.
the other.
The Paris conference has brought tn
world to n black outlook. The treat
has been signed by two obscure Ger
l mans: what that means must be face
squarely. Not single party or eectio
IN Germany accepts in heart or In inten
| ton the treaty to which its delegate
have subscribed on paper. Inspired b
n | different pretexts, the whole dismen1
bered German race IL boldly and abso
lutely one for revision or Reputation
| according to what chance may come.
France steps backward.
Every device OF craftsmanship mus
. he used 20 hold the Allies together. Fo
the first time In her history Franc
has given to the world no new ideas. bu
: has fallen back on the concepts OF ar
/ other age. Itaiy's occupation OF III
y southern Tyrol is almost more sinister 1
its certain promise OF trouble than III
. opening Of a deadly feud with the sout
q Slavs.
y THE real key to the future lies in Ru:
= STA, that will be the acid test OF the ca
pacity OF the Allies. There can be n
II basis of neutral stability in the worl
s until n strong. free Russia is restore
10 and brought fully into the League
!. Nations. In this vital respect there ha
been a disastrous lack OF any coherer
y policy. The Bolshevists should ha,
been declsively beaten and overthrow
IA because their dictatorship of the prol'
:, tariat means the tyranny Of minorit
"a the death Of real representative govern
70 ment.
h with n coherent Russia attached I
the Allies any attempted revival of Gel
. man mllitarism would be impotent.
:" priceless opportunity to give definite sti
RI bflity and security to the world has bee
1t thrown away by the Paris conferenc
t. When Russia revives II will compel
", revision OF the entire treaty by anoth'
e supreme conference. All the provision
81 affecting eastern Europe and Asiat
Turkey will have to be revised in Ru
in sia's favor.
OF THE treaty and the covenant togeth
n mean not peace Itself. but only a chan,
n of peace amid a throng of dangers 7
~ no chance can political health and SCUM
ness exist for Europe unless help ar
he hope are brought to the beaten people
or Never in the world were charity al
So clemency toward the vanquished so in
no perative.
On Alternative Is "Ruin OF Nations
:, THE alternative to a League of y
" lions is the ruin OF nations. German
=, and all vanquished peoples. such as Ru
STA. must be admitted to the League
Nations: when they are admitted 4
u great majority of the league will fav
81 a methodical revision OF the treaty al
a gradual extension OF world partnersh
10 as the sole means of averting the An
~ suicide OF modern civilization. VIII,
the troubles and dangers OF the futu