Aug. be Serajeyo, Liege, Versaill Locarno, Lausanne—those nam guide to'an epitome of the world-travail which, for many began lon this day of August. eighteen: years ago, The process of emerg-Jing fromthe mighty clash of nations in the field, to the not Jess awe-inspiring task of conciliation in a state of peace, has been and still is burdensome, How many of those who held in their hands the keys to success have passed from the scene! Wilson and Clemenceau are now lonly memories of Versaill [Stresemann and Briand, clasping hands across the table in Down ing Street, can no longer speak Locarno, Joffre and Fock, French and Haig, with othe fare shadows too. A new gene tion has grown up with little more than hearsay knowledge of the tragedy and of the policies which made it inevitable. On it nevertheless falls the responsibility of turning the lessons to account. There have been, a learning and an unlearning during these eighteen years. The play of reaction and counterreaction has led into error and, happily, out again. The groping after truth or the reality of Peace continues. Desperate fear lof a recurrence of catastrophe has led to desperate expedients, based on grim fallacies, for weaning mankind from the wat-weapon, Yesterday a correspondent rightly drew attention to one of these expedients—the {of propaganda designed to stigmatise war but involving a misuse of the time factor lof the struggle. The recent Disarma ment failure at Geneva has, a8 noted last week, pointed the danger of dealing with effects land Teaving the causes untouch-
Too many people believe that, surrendering opinions on th historical versions of pre-war levants, a general movement toward peace can be developed. Harping on old grievances is nly inimical to reconciliation.
ven more unsatisfactory is the idea that peace can be cemented loy deliberate abandonment of ithe teaching of facts, In due Jcourse, when the years of the Great War can be viewed by historians, free from personal associations with the conflict, the spurious judgments which, Ihave been so current of late will
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