Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Mockery Is Made by Europe
OF 2O>Year>Old Peace Treaty
Review Finds World Still Unsafe for Democracy
Germany Returns: One Skull, One Koran
and Some Flags
BY A ndrnp Berdine,
Associated Press Staff Writer

ashes of chapter 1871 1t limited her
battleships to 10000 tons, but workmen
are now constructing IS ,O0O- tonners and
26000- tonners. Other workmen are
building feet of submarines, although
chapter 191 forbade Germany to have
any.
Speaking of workmen, the laborers
who were digging bomb refugees in the
London parks few weeks ago might
also have dug into chapter 1873.
The armed forces of Germany must not
include any military or naval air forces"
American Secretary of Interior Ickes,
who refused Germany helium, would
find matter of interest in the same
chapter. mo dirigible shall be
| kept"
American legal lights might wonder
what happened to chapter 227. - THE
allied ano associated powers publicly
arraign William II of Hohenzollern, for
merly German Emperor for a supreme
offense against international morality
and the sanctity Of treaties.
"A special tribunal will be constituted
to try the accused There were to be
five judges appointed by the United
States Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan
Since this is a literary review. with
apologies to the book editor, attention
! should be called to an unusual word in
chapter 23l. You never see it mentioned
any more and most people probably have
forgotten what it means. 1t is spelled
r-e-p-a-r-
The allied and associated govern
ments affirm and Germany accepts the
responsibility of Germany and her allies
Tor causing all the loss and damage to
which the allied and associated govern
ments and their nationals have been sub.
Jected as consequence of the war i'm
posed upon them by the aggression of
Germany and her allies"
Sheaf of Unpaid Bills.
Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau on
Friday may possibly run through his
sheaf OF unpaid bills made out to Ger
many, reread chapter 249 and turn them
lover to some crack collection agency.
There shall be paid by the German gov
eminent the total cost of the allied and
associated governments in occupied Ger
man territory from the date OF the sigma
ture of the armistice of November II.
1918 -
While he is at it, Mr. Morgenthau,
whose Treasury Department has placed
Germany on the United States economic
blacklist on the charge of discriminate
against American commerce, perhaps will
read chapter 274 Germany UNDER
takes to adopt all the necessary legisla-
tive and administrative measures to pro-
tect goods the produce or manufacture of
any one of the allied and associated
powers from all forms of unfair COMPETE
ton in commercial transactions"
The waters of the German Rivers Elbe,
Oder, Niemen and Danube have all but
obliterated the wording of chapter 33l.
making them international rivers under
the management Of international COM
missions, and only the words of Adolf
Hitler making them German rivers now
stand out
Perhaps it is too early to say what
parts of the book will last, but this we
knoWn-that the boundaries of Belgium
and Denmark are still the same. and
that Germany has made restitution Of:
1-One skull.
2-One Koran.
3-The French flags taken in the War
of 1870
Few persons know that skull was the
object OF a special paragraph in the
treaty OF Versailles. 1t said that, within
six months, Germany will hand over to
his Britannia majesty's government the
skull of the Sultan Mkwawa which was
removed from the protectorate of Ger
man East Africa and taken to Germany"
The second item was mentioned in an
other paragraph Germany will re-
store to his Majesty the King of the
Hedjaz the original Koran of the Caliph
Gilman which was removed from Me.
dina by the Turkish authorities and is
stated to have been presented to the ex-
Emperor William H."
In 20 years the dove of peace which
perched on the back of a PROSTATE Ger
many has changed into an airplane
carrying British Prime Minister to beg
German Chancellor to sheath his
sword. You can see why we said some
readers might want to keep it until Fri
DAY, especially since Armistice Day this
year becomes for the first time a national
holiday.