Wat Reatty Harresrp ar Panis. Edit ed by F. M. House and C. S (Hodder and Stoughton. 25: net.)
A number of the American dele. gates to the Peace Conference deseribed its proceedings and results last winter to a series of public audiences in Philadelphia, each speaker taking an aspect of the; larly intimate. These "talks" are subject with which he was partionnow collected under the editorship of two members of the delegation, along with the answers given fo a, number of questions from the audience. They are all very able pieces of exposition, and will go some way to qualify impressions deved from Mr. Lansing, eynes, and other individual mentators. Mr. T. W. Lamont particularly repudiates Mr. Lansing's vompliint that President Wilson gnared his colleagues. "I never saw a man more ready and anxious te ce than he." Mr. C.. Haskins affirms that the atmosphere of the Conference was "grossly misrepresented" by Mr. Keynes, who ¢|has performed me useful economic analy but, "in order to get the indulged in descrip-S'tion of scenes of which he was not)
Interesting light is thrown upon laid down la the Armistice terms appears to have been yf y settled under the guidance of General Smuts, whose judgement waa: "What was spent by the Allied Governments on the soldier himself, or, rather, mechanical apphanoes of war. might, perhaps,|? nat be recoverable from the German {Government under the reservation, jas not being in a plain and direct sense damage to the civilian population, but what was, or is, spent on the citizen before he became a soldier, er after he has ceased to be a soldier, or at any time on his family. represents compensation for damage done to civilians and must: be made good by the German Govment under any fair inter; pretatien of the above reservation.
Colonel House, in his own general review of the Conference, notes several mistakes, such as the reltct-
"ance of the European Allies to put definite figure on the German liability, and the lack of publicity in the negotiations The common authority was undermined, too, by the haty demobilization entered upon by England and America, and the reluctance of every Power but France to have its troops employed for police purposes. When all is tid, however, he claims that there are parts of the Treaty which "mark a distinct advance in international morals, and if they fail of their purpose it will be because of the refusal of the United States to accept the Treaty in good faith and to give it her powerful support." To that refusal he attaches a grave responsibility. "It was a rolfe face for which wa have paid dearly in the world's esteem. If the gallant dead who lie beside their comrades in the fields of France had done likewise at Chateau-Thierry and the Argonne, we could not have reached our high estate. Never before has a nation tossed aside so great a heritage so lightly."
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