The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-03

The text OF the treaty follows;
Considering that the United States of
America and the government Of the
French republic are equally animated by
a desire to maintain the peace of the
world, SO happily restored by the treaty
signed at Versailles on June 2S, which
put an end to the war begun by the ag-
gression of the German empire and ter
minated by the defeat of that power, and
Considering that the United States of
America and the government of the
French republic, fully convinced that an
unprovoked aggression directed by Ger
many against France would not only
violate at the same time the letter and
spirit of the Versailles treaty to which
the United States and France are parties,
thus exposing France anew to the in
toerable burden of unprovoked war, but
that such aggression on the part of Ger
many would constitute an act reputed
by the treaty of Versailles as being
against all the powers signatory to the
treaty and calculated to trouble the
peace of the world, involving inevitably
and directly the states of Europe and
indirectly the entire world, as experience
has amply and unhappily demonstrated,
and
considering that the United States of
America and the government of the
French republic expect the clause con-
cerning the left bank of the Rhine can
not assure Immediately to France on the
one hand and to the United States on
the other, as signatory powers to the
treaty of Versailles, appropriate security
and protection
Consequently the United States of
America and the government of the
French republic, having decided to con
clude treaty to realize these necessary
ends, Woodrow Wilson, president of the
United States of America, and Robert
thorized to that end by the president of
the United States of America, and
Georges Clemenceau, president of the
council of ministers and minister of war,
and Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign
affairs, specially authorized to that end
by Raymond Poincare, president of the
French republic, have agreed upon the
following:
article 1.-The following stipula
tions concerning the left bank of the
Rhine, are contained in the peace treaty
signed with Germany at Versailles, June
2S, 1919, by the United States of Amer
ica, the government of the French repub-
lie and by the British empire, among
other powers:
"'Article XLII.-Germany is prohibit
cd from maintaining or constructing for
tifeations either on the left bank of the
Rhine or on the right bank west of a
line running so kilometres to the east of
that river.
"'Article XLIIf.--ln the area defined
above the maintenance and the assembly
of armed forces, either permanently or
temporarily, and military maneuvers of
any kind, as well as the upkeep of all
permanent works for mobilization are in
the same way forbidden.
"'Article XLIV-In case Germany
violates in any manner whatever the
provisions of articles XLII. and XLIII.,
she shall be regarded as committing a
hostile act against the powers signatory
of the present treaty and as calculated
TO disturb the peace of the world
In case these stipulations should not
assure Immediately to France appropri-
ate security and protection, the United
States of America shall be bound to
come Immediately to her aid in case of
any unprovoked act of aggression di-
rected against her by Germany.
Article 1.-THE present treaty,
couched in terms analogous to those of a
treaty concluded on the same date and to
the same end between Great Britain and
the French republic, copy of which is
hereto annexed, will not enter into force
until the moment when the latter is
ratified
Article III.-The present treaty must
be submitted to the council of the society
of nations and must be recognized by
the council, deciding if occasion arise by