New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-03
Bryce Declares
Covenant. Seed
OF Future w ars
Treaties League Framed
Have Evoked Nothing but
Censure in Europe, Wis
count Assures Institute
Vienna Congress Adler
Statesmen of 1914 knew q,
Least What They We're
Doing and Gave Ii Effect

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Aug. q
sown in Europe by the deliberations
and findings of the Versailles confer
ence, Viscount James Bryce told the
institute of Politics at Williams Col
lege to-day in his second lecture en-
international Relations of the Old
World States" Discussing the franz
ing of treaties by the representatives
OF the victorious powers, he said:
Their work has received in Europe
nothing but censure. Comparing the
treaties they framed with those which
were made by the Congress al Vienna in
1814-15, European critics observe that
the men ofVienna, Alexander and Met
ternich, Talleyrand and Hardenberg and
Castelereagh, may have had bad princi-
pies and employed despotic methods and
mlsconceived the interests OF their
peoples, but they at least knew what
they were doing, and gave effect to
their principles. Their work bestowed
upon Europe a tolerable peace which
lasted for more than thirty years.
But there is no one Of the treaties of
1919-1920 which is not now already
admitted to need amendment, while
some are seen to lead straight to fu-
ture wars.
cone hears people say The sort Of
peace that these negotiators have
given US is as bad as was the war
The negotiators at Paris differed in
their principles and ideals, and at least
some Of them do not seem to have
believed in the principles they pro-
fessed.
Political Viewpoint Charged
European critics have suggested
that some of them may have thought
they must play down to their own
celebrates and regard not what ought
to be done but what would help IN
their next electoral campaigns. fopu-
lar prejudices, popular passions AMI
cupidities had to be humored or graft
fed. Moreover, and this is an excuse
which must not be lightly brushed
aside, the task before them was one of
unprecedented difficulty. New states
/ had to be created, territories redis-
| tributed, indemnities secured. and all
on scale incomparably greater than
any international congress ever be-
fore had attempted.i
Taking up the position in which the
European countries find themselves as
the result of the peace treaty, Lord
| Bryce said:
Germany, which though reduced in
area is still Germany and continues to
call herself the Reich (the realm)
albeit now republic instead of a
onarchy-Germany s still the most
populous of European countries after
Russia, with highly educated and in
| dustrious inhabitants and great pro
ductive industries. Between her land
France the ancestral antagonism,. dat
/ ing back to the days of Louis XIN's
aggressions, is now more bitter thar
ever and seems likely to last in France
as long as the generation lives which
remem bers the devastations wrought
in 1917 by the retiring German army
and in Germany as long as her govern
ment continues to pay immense sums
in reparation for the losses in the
war by France.
"This war has shown one unprece-
denied feature, painful in the pros
pect it opens. The victors bear as
much resentment against Che van