Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

This is just review of a dog-eared
book. A sentimentalist might prefer to
read 1t next Friday, when part of the
world celebrates the goth anniversary of
the armistice.
The volume has 1911 pages and YOU can
get copy for IS cents at the Govern
ment Printing Office. Don't spend any
more Tor 1t, because it was written nearly
20 years ago and is as out date as the
hustle. 1t is
The treaty of Versailles
The book was the work of four political
giants. OF whom two are left alive
Brltlsher Lloyd George and Italian Wit
torlo Orlando. They sought to build out
OF the pages of their book lasting peace
for the world.
Twenty years ago Friday, they believed
that the world had been made safe for
democracy especially France That
Germany was beaten to the ground.
never to be danger again That an
era OF peace and prosperity, good will
among men, had dawned
And today
The 100000 Germans have become
100000. The German strength in the
air is said to equal the combined force
OF Britain and France. Germany has abb
sorbed one nation. Topped a limb from
another, dominates in all Central Eu-
rope.
So it might not he so dull after all to
review book which has been almost as
much discussed-by Adolph Hitler among
others-as any best seller of this century.
League Covenant Set Forth.
Our authors-Woodrow Wilson. Gle
menceau, Lloyd George and Orlando
stated their desire that the armistice
should be replaced by firm, just and
durable peace"
They then set forth the Covenant of
the League of Nations. Two decades have
seen the Nation of Woodrow Wilson,
principal exponent of the League, refuse
to JOIN it. two of the founding nations,
Japan and Italy, leave it. and Germany,
later Joiner, resign The two guns
placed in the Leagues hip pockets-eco
nomlc and military sanctions-haye
been unloaded
The readers attention hobs up at
artlcle-let's call it chapter-27, which
defines the boundaries of Germany.
South, east and west, those boundaries
nave changed since the Germans laid
down their arms 20 years ago. The Saar
Basin adjoining France, Austria and a
portion of Czechoslovakia have been in
corporated in the new reich.
Chapter AZ will give the reader pause
Germany is forbidden to maintain
or construct any Notifications either on
the left bank of the Rhine or on the
right bank to the west of line drawn
5o kllometers to the east of the Rhine"
The reader may recall Hitlers recent
speech in which he said 278,O0O men were
working on the Notifications which would
De completed at the end of the year.
Turn the page to chapter 43 I'm
the area defined above, the maintenance
and the assembly of armed forces. either
permanently or temporary. and military
maneuvers of any kind, as we'll as the
upkeep OF all permanent works for mo-
blllzatlon, are in the same way forbid
den.' Yet, hundreds of thousands of uni
formed men were in the Rhineland in
recent weeks.
Perhaps Herr Kurt Schussnigg, former
chancellor of Austria, now in the CUSTODY
OF the Nazis, will on Friday reread chan
ter 30 -. Germany acknowledges and
will respect strictly the independence of
Austria She agrees that this indie
pendence shall be inalienable. except
with the consent of the Council of the
League Of Nations"
Czech Freedom Recognized.
Eduard Benes, the ex-President of
Czechoslovakia who is coming to the
United States as lecturer, will perhaps
think on Friday of chapter 81 Ger
many recognizes the complete in
dependence of the Czechoslovak state.
Germany hereby recognizes the
frontiers of this state as determined by
the principal allied and associated powers
and the other interested states"
The comment of ships captain pass
Ing on Friday beneath the formidable
guns OF Germany's North Sea Gibraltar
the island of Helgoland, and reading
chapter lis might be interesting. if print
able. The chapter said the Notifications
not rebuilt
With Germany now clamoring for a
return of her colonies, chapter 1l9 is
interesting Germany renounces in
favor of the principal allied and asso-
ciated powers all her rights and titles
OF her oversee possessions"
The million men Chancellor Hitler had
under arms during the Czech crisis or
the $4,000 German soldiers now in the
Sudetenland give point to reading of
chapter $780, 1t limited Germany's army
to 100000 men,
The half-million men now coming up
each year Tor conscript military service
know that chapter l73 no longer has any
effect on them, but it said: Universal
compulsory military service shall be
abolished in Germany"
Germany's armada is rising from the