Evening star., 1925-06-19
Security Treaty Is Considered
AS Achievement Toward Peace

remarks that there is and can be
no such security as that which
grows out of friendship between peo-
Piles, and it is not impossible for even
the French and Germans to be
friends
A compliment to Germany is OBJ
served by the Louisville Herald in the
character of the arrangement. The
Herald does not recall a prior in.
stance of the victors getting together
SO soon after the conclusion of a war
in which all their objectives were won
to insure themselves against the ag.
Sression of the vanquished." Uncer-
tainty, however, as to whether Ger
many Will agree to the proposals is
expressed by the Buffalo News. "It
would mean" the News states. "aban-
donment of the hope she has held to
regain DanZig, Posen and Silesia, in
return for which the Rhineland would
be freed The Lynchburg News
Jubilation,' and is of the opinion that
Germany is not to be expected to
overlook the opportunity for further
bargaining" The News continues:
80, while hopeful of successful COM
pletion of the negotiations and of re-
suits expected to flow from 1t, the
world is content to wait without un.
due excitement for the unfolding of
the negotiations
The position of the United States is
a matter for discussion in some news
papers. Europeans gradually are ar
irving at the decision" says the Fort
Worth Telegram. ito dismiss
from their consideration all prospects
of help from America in establishing
future peace. If this involves a slower
and less efficient process than would
have been possible with the United
States cooperating fully, it cannot be
helped. The tragedy of Americas,
aloofness is that the great resources
of America, pre-eminently the greatest
Of all nations, have not been used to
anything like their capacity for the
greatest of all causes" In similar
vein the Knoxville Sentinel declares:
IF the new pact should be realized in
all its conditions, the United States
will be more lonesome than ever in
it's isolation from the association of
nations that have. pooled their en-.
deavors and plighted their faith to the
purpose Of preserving the peace of the
world" On the other hand, the Pitts
burgh Chronicle asks:
have with this purely European ar
rangement? It's value will depend
wholly on the good faith of the sign
ers." In reply to this the Springfield
(Ohio) News asserts ''it is not to be
said that the United States has no in
terest in the undertaking, for the rea-
son that the problem is one of purely
European concern"
The News cites the fact that the
World War involved this country as
deeply as if there were no ocean to
separate" and finds cause for congrat-
ulation in this country that the Euro
pean nations ''are turning to the
League of Nations as the bedrock of
their building" The Utica Observer.
Dispatch also remarks that the way
out Is the League of Nations" The
Morgantown New Dominion says that
"the pact is linked with the League of
Nations covenant" AS to the inf1u.
ence of Germany. however. the San
Francisco Bulletin holds that ICON.
summation of the pact would mean
more for the peace of Europe than
German membership in the league
without the four-power treaty"
The effect upon future armaments is