Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-31

for all practical purposes-by the Rhineland
treaty of mutual guarantee between France and
Germany and between Belgium and Germany,
which is guaranteed by England and Italy 1t is
stated that Germany and Belgium and also Ger.
many and France mutually undertake that they
will in no attack or invade each other or
resort to against each other" 1t is further
stated that: Germany and Belgium and Germany
and France undertake to settle by peaceful means
and in the manner laid down herein all questions
of every kind which may arise between them and
which it may not be possible to settle by the
normal methods of diplomacy; any question with
regard to which the parties in conflict as to
their respective rights shall be submitted to
judicial decision, and the parties undertake to
comply with such decision"
And this, be it remembered only six months
after the election of Won Hindenburg as President
of the reich had been hailed throughout Europe
as the beginning of the Nationalist policy of
revenge! And on top of this Germany to become
a member of the League of Nations
Moreover, this is but beginning. There are
also an arbitration treaty between Germany and
France; an arbitration treaty between Germany
and Belgium; arbitration treaty between
Germany and Poland an arbitration treaty be-
tween Germany and Czechoslovakia There are
also agreements between France and roland and
France and Czechoslovakia. Each CT the four
arbitration treaties opens with change of names)
like this "All disputes of every kind between
Germany and Czechosovakia with regard to
which the parties in conflict as to their
respective rights and which it may not be possible
to settle amicably by the normal methods of
diplomacy shall be submitted for decision either
to arbitral tribunal or to the Permanent
Court of International Justice"
The truly momenteus Importance of these
treaties is clearly shown by the attitude of those
whose wishes run to the contrary. The German
Nationalist, for example, excaim i'll Indignation
of ho baS for
a real peace these treaties but another STEP
further toward the subjugation of Germany to
the allies; the only hope is that it will be
possible to prevent our entering the League of
Nations"
Red Russia, to which European concord is
anathema, is, of course, furious. 1t charges the
Germans with treachery in abandoning the
Rapallo treaty, calls Germany "Englands political
TOOL sees a new war against Soviet Russia"
and declares the new arrangement "fu of the
seed of future international conflicts. 1t is sig
nificant in this connection that the anti
Bolshevik newspapers published outside Russia
are quick to point out that Soviet Russia is now
isolated in Europe and that this is body blow
to the Third International and its domination
over Russia.
This new era Of concord in Europe is not due
to any spiritual regeneration of the nations. The
instinct of selfpreServatiOn, strong in nations as
in men, is the secret of it. Quit fighting, reduce
ornaments, go to work and help one another
that is what the nations of Europe have to do
to prosper-and even to survive And they know
it, 1t has taken them seven years to find it out.
But they know it now.
Two generations ago, when "The Hub claimed
to be the center from which all American culture
radiated wit raised a nationwide laugh with
this joke, Boston is not much place as
state of mind" The same idea can be applied
here in all seriousness. The signing of the
Locarno pacts in London by the representatives
of the seven signatory nations significant of
state of mind. That state of mind was sort
of mental disarmament. The signing of the
treaties the fxation of a mind for peace.