The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-02

guarantee II absolutely. A few
days before the armistice one OF
army commanders said to a public
man.
we are going to take up our
positions for another winter"
The responsible chief would have
none OF another winter" which he
did not consider essential to the
achievement OF victory. The gov
ernmcnts determined to impose
everything that the coinmander-in-
chief cXactcd but did not feel justi-
fled In demanding more Moreover,
the problem was TO place Germany
In a position In which bhe could
not begin the war again-shc was
not able to begin It again. the prob
lem was to force Germany to sign
the peace-she signed IL. Events
have thus shown that Marshal FoCh
was right. The armistice marked
the capitulation OF the enemy. "a ca
pitulation which was ap uncundi-
tioual surrender.
The work which awaited the
trainers of the pcace was as great
and as unprecedented as the war
which was to be brought to a close.
Great and unprecedented in its
scope; for the first time In history
AfhAAfA1 aho' AFhEAAAH h'f thNs
million men had been modified,
10000, 900 had been wounded and
nearly ten million had died. Moth
ing in the past could compare with
Il. The dead alone outnumbered
all tho armies Of Napoleon. Great
and unprecedented In its complex
ity; nation having fought nation,
there had been brought into play
the Gum total of oil national forces,
agricultural. industrial, CONNER
cial and financial. All these potent
factors OF international life had to
be taken into account In making
the treaty. Read over the great
peace treaties Of the PASTOR the
most part child's play compared to
this Frontier changes limited to a
few fragments OF the map of Eu-
rope. indemnities Of a few mill
lions-the 5000, 600, 900 exacted In
1871 from France were looked
upon at the time as a financial
monstrosity and n gross abuse OF
power; economic clauses In which
the victor imposed upon the VIM
pushed the most favored nation
clause! A peace treaty had certain
classic outlines which were filled
In according to more or less settled
traditions.
The map OF the world had TO be
remadc, and under what conditions
Germany's persistent savagery had
left more ruins in the victorious
countries than the %invasions of the
barbarians had ever made In the
lands they overrun and conquered.
The resources OF all the belligerepts
had been equally exhausted by the
duration OF the struggle. and as the
damages rightly demanded by the
creditors rose, the capacity for pay
ment OF debtors fell. Mr.. Lloyd
George had said In 1918, Germany
shall pay for everything" When the
conference met, II was OF necessity
Obliged to ascertain how much and
In what Germany would
pay. And ways had to be devised to
extend the time OF payment; for 1t
was quite evident a country no mat
ter how rich could not pay hun
dreds of mlllionA In a few months
and no matter now criminal could
not have undergone so prolonged A
strain without diminishing its re-
sources. The execution of the
peace terms thus became not a
matter of months but of years. II
implied a lasting union of the forces
which had won the war. Not the
victors alone but the whole world
had to be given the certainty that
Germany would not repeat her Of
Tense. Tho fundamental aims Of
liberty and justice which for 80
months had furnished the moral
strength and stimulus or the ma