Evening star., 1925-05-10
Only Time Can Prove Hindenburg Sincere
In Desire for Amity, Declares Herriot

wait and see IL in the conflict between the
parties it can continue to hold power.
OF one thing we can be sure: That in the
face Of so many uncertainties France will keep
her sang froid and remain prudent. It In high.
~ important, as was so well emphasized by
NJ. BRAND. that France remain in full accord
with her allies. The intimate entente Of Great
Britain and France seems to me more than
ever the essential condition Of peace.
We are now celebrating In France the cen.
tenary Of the death Of Comte de Saint Simon.
who SO greatly Influenced the movement Of
the social ideas of the nineteenth century. In
1914, at the time OF the celebrated Congress OF
Vienna, this illustrious thinker wrote In col
laboratiop with Augustin Thierry remark.
able book on the REORGANIZATION Of European
Society,"" IN which he laid the first foundation
for the institution that has become the League
OF Nations. In this work the Comte de Saint
Simon proclaimed with energy that the union
Of France and England was the necessary con.
dition Of all peace in Europe.
Just As Sound Now.
These truths just sound in 1925
they were in 1914. wish there existed in
Great Britain profound conviction Of this
there does in France. and hope the United
States will help us maintain our hands clasped
in the interest Of the establishment Of peace.
1t was to this end that worked during my
stay in the foreign ONCE. had the good for
tune to be able to safeguard the accord with
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, and NJ. Aristide
BRAND will. trust, do better still. I ardently
hope he will be able to terminate successfully
the negotiations began for security pact.
Security! France begs for nothing more.
Let nobody imagine she wants always to re-
main on the Rhine. She asks only solid guar.
antees to prevent the return Of terrible events
like those which in 1914 brought her to the
very point of death. We cannot count upon
another miracle Of the Marne.
II France had only obtained the treaties of
guarantee for which she had been led to hope
during the negotiations for the treaty of Ver-
sailles-ah!-she would feel at But un-
happily she is still awaiting these treaties.
Wants Treaty Applied.
France wants only security by the loyal ap-
plication of the treaty of Versailles. To allow
this treaty to be questioned in one or another
part would be madness. 1t would open up a
formidable debate from which war would in
evitably come.
We cannot establish the international mo-
rale for which we working il this morale is
not founded on the integral respect Of treaties.
With her wisdom with her moral authority.
America can greatly help us promote and
achieve the work Of justice which we have un-
dertaken.
As for Germany. what is the gesture, or,
we might say, the criterion by which we will
recognize she sincerely wants peace with US. il
she wants to help us construct for the world
a program of life? The answer is simple be-
lieve. II Germany wants to prove she has q
will to collaborate in the international entente
she must enter the League OF Nations under
the very acceptable coIsditions that have been
offered her. Gpon her entry into the league
depends the solution OF the problem OF security
well as the solution Of the difficulties pend
ing between the allies and ourselves.
believe that only the day when Ger
many commits herself on the question Of her
admission to the League of Nations will we be
able to judge the importance Of the election of
Marshal Won Hindenburg.
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