To-day is the fourteenth anniversary of the official end of the Great War, August 31, 1921, Actual hee ities "had, of' course, ended—on November 11, 1918, but from then on number of treaties had to be negotiated between the victors and. the various allies of the vanquished. Thus while the Treaty of Versuilles was signed on June 28, 1919, to come into force on January 10, 1920, the Treaty of Trianon between the Allied and Associated Powers and Hungary was not concluded unfit June 4, 1920, actually coming into force on July 26, 1921, Other details had to be cleared up and it was not until more than a month later that the great struggle finally came to an end. A Great deal fad been done during those years between the Armistice and the conclusion of peace, Some of the achievements of that period have been already rendered of no effect, while others are at this moment in danger of being swept away. Yet would be idle to suggest that noth-Ing has been accomplished. In some directions it has been conclusively proved that ce-operation between nations was possible, especially in connection with sociological matters, and though on graver issues it is still apparently impossible to attain com plete understanding, there is still some slight room for hope thet wiser counsels may in the long fun and bring about that closer interna-Nional understanding without which there can never be any real' possibility of a permanent peace.
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