New Britain herald., 1921-08-02
VERSAILLES TREATY
 IS BREEDER OF WAR
ViSCount Bryce Says Pact Is Not
 Favored in Europe

r. s., IaIUl0u Ill EuIUpG
 ITS PEACE AS BAD AS WAR; British Statesmen, Speaking at wil.
 Hams College Institute of Politics
 Says This is View Taken in Old
 World.
 WiI1iamstown. Mass, Aug. 2.-The seeds of future wars have been sown in Europe by the deliberations and findings of the Versailles conference Viscount Bryce told the institute of politics at Williams college today in his second lecture on "International relations of the ola world states, discussing the framing of treaties by the representatives Of the victorious | powers he said
 l Severely Criticized Their work has received in Eu- rope nothing but censure Compar ing the treaties they framed with those which were made by the Con gress at Vienna in 1814-15, European critics observe that the men of Vien- na, Alexander, Matternich, Tallyrand and Hardenberg and Castlereach, l may have had bad principles and en- | ployed despoic methods and mis- | conceived the interests of their peo- ! pies. but they at least knew what they were doing, and gave effect to ! their principles. Their work be- slowed upon Europe tolerable peace which lasted more, than 30 years But there is no one of the treaties of l919-2O which is not now already ad- nhitued to need amendment, while some are seen to lead straight to fu- ture wars.
 As Bad as War.
 'One hears people say the sort of peace that these negotiators have given us is as bad as was the war. The negotiations at Paris differed in their principles and ideals and some at least of them do not seem to have believed in the principles they pro- fessed.''
 'l European critics have suggested that some of them may have thought they must play down to their own electorates and regard not what ought to be done, but also what would help in their next electoral campaigns. Popular prejudices, popular passions and cupidities had to be huDored or gratif1ed. Moreover, and this is an excuse which must not be lightly
 brushed aside the task before them, Il was one of unprecedented4 difficulty. New states had to be created, terri tories redistributed, 1ndemnities se- lcured and all on g. sca1a incompar- | h %N>~ $+ -J congress ever before had attempted .
 Situation in Europe . Taking up the position in which
 the European countries find them.
 selves as result of the peace treaty
 Lord Bryce said
 Germany, which though reduced in area is still Germany and contin- ues to call herself the Reich (the realn) albeit now republic instead ot : a monarchy-Germany is still the : most populous of European countries after Russia, with highly educated
 and industrious inhabitants and great productive industries. Between hel
 and France the ancestral antagonism dating back to the days of Louis
 XIV's aggressions is now more bitter than ever and seems likely to last ir
 France as long as the generation lives
 which remembers the devastations lwrought in 1917 by the retiring Ger
 man army and in Germany as long
 as her government continues to pay
 immense sums in reparation for the
 losses in the war by France. [ Hard Feelings Everywhere.
 ''This war has shown one unprece- dented feature, painful in the pros | F.
 much resentment against the van quished as the vanquished do against the victors. There is no blacker cloud, pregnant with future storm : hanging over Europe now than that which darkens the banks of the , Rhine. Not even after Jena in 1906 ; not even after Gravelotte and Sedar and the equalization of Paris in 1871 has the prospect of reconcilement be- : tween two neighboring peoples seemed so distant"
 s Austria and Italy. g Of Austria and Italys aspirations n in regard to Tyrol the speaker said 0 'Italy had of course no historica l title whatever to the purely Germanit h |region she sought to acquire. How. s ever, the prlnclple ol ndtioHd1iIy Wal . lin this case thrown overheard by the allied powers and a quarter of a mil ,. lion of German Tyrolesie countrymer d of the heroic Andreas Hofer who hat e led their forefathers in gallant re s sistance when Napoleon turned then e over to Bavaria in 1895, were de s livered up to Italy as if they hat
 been so many cattle. The British ant
 French governments defended thei
 faction by pleading secret treaty the. Ihad made with Italy in 1915, whel n they were endeavoring to induce he D to enter the war on their side. l l. was a promise that ought never t. e have been made. is