Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
VIEW
OF PEACE TREATY
Jules Cambon Sees Necessity
for France to Maintain
Her Power.
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
CableGram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1919.
PARIS, July 5.-Jules Cambon. who
probably is. at the present time,
Frances ablest diplomat, makes the
following statement regarding the
treaty of Versailles:
'The truth is that the value of all
treaties depends on their application.
Napoleon. in 1907. thought he had
placed Prussia at his mercy for all
time, but Prussia found in the very
treaty he imposed the beginnings of
her rise, since under the pressure of
necessity she found therein the idea
of the military Institutions. which en-
abled her to re-enter the struggle in
1913 and which were the foundations
of her greatness. 1t Is, therefore, i'm
portant. II We want to pluck the
fruits OF our victory. that we keep
our hand on the application of the
treaty which ends the war with Ger
many.
"Rsalistie View" Required.
This is essential. 1t requires that
the country should take a realistic
view of the conditions necessary for
the maintenance of our power and
should persevere in the effort to full
NIL them. Our military institutions
should not be weakened and our al
liances should not be shaken. AlbeA
Sorel, who was master, remarked
that treaties are expressions of the
relations which exist at the moment
they are concluded between the ma
terial and moral forces of the states
and that the rights they stipulate
never survive the conditions in which
these rights have been established
This Is a truth of experience and ia
imagine that once victory is won and
| a treaty concluded we need make NO
further efforts to gather it's fruits
would be to repay ourselves with
empty words and be too self-indul-
gent.
Likened to Peace Of 1915.
1.-The peace just concluded can b
compared only to that concluded n
during fifty years. The work Of 1915
persisted because the soverefgns and
diplomats gathered in Vienna had
calculated and eQuilibrated the ma
terial forces Of the-states. but had
taken no account Of the moral forces
oI TeVOiUtlON- "ndt 10 original IT
| the peace of 1919 Is that for the first
time the victors, gathered to decide
| the fate Of the world. began by pro-
claiming that they desired to make
a peace Of justice. peace Of right
and to repair past iniauities and to
bind up the cruel wounds from which
SO many peoples have suffered
throughout the ages-
Then arose the theory of historical
restrictions. The Poles, Cxechs, Ru-
manians Of Transylvania. Jugoslavs
|Armenians. Arabs and even the Greeks
of Asia Minor desired to make the
dream of MithridAtss live again. Un-
doubtedly nobody thinks that all the
injustices of the past will be re-
paired. but tho awakening of these
oppressed nationalixies and the spec
tacle Of their resurrection arc them
selves a lesson in justice.
Need More Than Peace With Huns
peace with Germany 10 hrst. Ger
tainly it IL the most important and
the only one which interests public
opinion. but 1t Is not the whole peace.
There remains to treat with Austria.
Bulgaria and Turkey. to settle the
near-eastern question and to give
these young nations. already Jealous
of their independence and already
ambitious, boundaries and statutes.
The work still to be accomplished de-
mands much light and good will from
the allied and associated govern