The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-08-18
EUROPES FAINT FAITH IN THE
TREATY AND LEAGUE


1t was only few short months ago
that the Democratic orators were de-
nouncing the Senate for refusing to rat
ify the Versailles treaty and the pro-lea-
que newspapers were telling us that fail
ure to swallow the pact in its entirety
would everlastingly disgrace us in the
eyes of the world. Now that the new Re-
publican administration has definitely
rejected the treaty, principally for the
tieason that it is impossible entirely to
unscramble it from the league, and
through the State Department is nego-
tiating separate peace with Germany,
it must surprise the league proponents
to find that the United States and the
world at large seems to be accepting the
new conditions with remarkable calm
ness and fortitude.
A few months ago they told us a re-
lection Of the league meant DESERVING our
associates in the World War, the end of
the hope for permanent peace and the
everlasting humiliation Of the United
States, Yet We find that our country not
only 10 not Asgfaced, but is leading the
great powers into a conference which
bids fair to take. the first genuine step
for world disarmament. ~ aExzss-.-
Moreover, Ia Europe they are paying
no attention to the league in fact, are en-
deavoring to settle their problems entire
ly outside of it. And they have not de-
nounced us and are not holding us in dis
grace for rejecting the league ridden
treaty. -~-p qo g -n
The latest evidence of the European
sentiment is furnished by Viscount jam
es Bryce, the distinguished Briton. who
is now a visitor in the United States.
Surely Viscount Bryce is a representa-
tive and leading citizen not alone of En-
gland, but of Europe.
This is what he had to say Of the YER
sailles pact and its authors last week in
an address at the Institute of Politics in
Williams College.
"Their work has received in Europe
nothing but censure. Comparing the
treaties they framed with those which
We're made by the congress at Vienna in
l814-15, the European critics observe
that the men of Vienna, Alexander and
Metternich, Talleyrand, may have had
bad principles and employed despotic me-
thods and misconceived the interests of
their peoples, but they, at least. knew
what they were doing, and gave effect
to their principles. as
'Their work bestowed upon Europe
q tolerable peace which lasted for more
than thirty years. But there is no one of
the treaties of 19l9-1920 which is not al
ready admitted to need amendment,
while. some are seen to lead straight to
the future wars.
zone hears people saw the sort of
peace that these negotiations have given
us Is rs bad as was the war The nego-
tiators at Paris differed in their princi-
ples and ideals, and some at least of them
do not seen to have believed in the prin-
ciples they protested.
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 elector-
al campaigns. Popular prejudices, popular
passions and CAPABILITIES had to be humor-
ed or gratified
Moreover, and this is an excuse which
must not be lightly brushed aside, the
task before them was one of unpreced-
ented difficulty. New states had to be
created territories redistributed, indem-