In graphic fashion he decries the policy of: frenzied rearmament now carried to extremes by nearly all governments. He traces the present day urge for the possession of more and more death-dealing devices back to the days of 1919 when the "iniquity ous" Treaty of Versailles was forced "upon the vanquished by the victorious nations, a treaty that is now reaping the harvest which always follows those who seek vengeance, He gives many concrete examples of how the terms of this treaty have been broken time and time again by the countries that framed them and still remain signatories of the agreement. This state of affairs, he affirms, is mainly responsible for prevailing tense conditions in Burope today:
... Had these treaties been fair and equitable, such as many previous conquerors "would have, Imposed, - we Would not have seen' the uprising of dictatorships or the economic chaos which Europe is now experiencing The Europe which rejected German friendship. when offered by Chert, Streseman and Bruning, Das now been forced to cancel millions of pounds of Reparations claims. ha* seen the Rhineland reoccupied and fortified
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