To the Editor of the "Nowsu-curua Datty News" was interested in the letter published in your issue today from Imranriat ano Nevrnat, Interesting as it is, as putting forward the point of view of a neutral, and of course controversial, Futher on a side issue that I beg the favour of your courtesy to draw attention.
Whilst' employing the quite unex-optional phraseology, which is indeed commendable, yet your correspondent ces Int to apply the epithet "disgrace-{al" to the Versailles Treaty.
My personal. opinion is that this trealy was an honest and neons unfair attempt to settle, the problems occasioned by" the Great War, not the least of which was to eliminate the possibility of future gression such us Germany unques-Wlonably exercised upon Belgium. Alone in Its financial clauses was the Versailles Treaty a stupid document, by Its intention of giving the Allies a blank cheque on Germany's resources as reparations, However, 1 am not aware that German vilification fof the treaty Is based on these ancial clauses, as they were never in fact fully operative, being nulllled by German astuteness. On the other territorial and armament lauses—the main body of the treaty "Tecan find no complaint.
That the treaty failed in its purpose but too plain today, but the blame {or this is not in my opinion due to any inherent iniquity In the treaty itself, but Is due to quite other causes.
'Yet it must be conceded that the great bulk' of world opinion today Tooks upon the Versailles treaty as an unjust Instrument, a "dictate!" In other words, what three-quarters the world thought. proper and justi-Mable in 1920, nine-tenths of the world now think the reverse. Even in Bngland itself for many years the majority opinion, without " actually knowing much about the matter, has been mesmerized into considering the Versailles Treaty an, unjust imposi-on, This view which has even been propounded by prominent English politicians {s solely the result of the ceaseless German propaganda, Surely this is" the outstanding example of successful propaganda. Tt has indeed eotnpletely obliterated from the public mind earlier Allied propaganda as to German war quilt for the Great Wax hope and trust that this may be fa lesson for our own conduct of Propaganda in this present war, otherwise one can foresee in the future that Germany will succeed in causing the bulk of the uninformed ublic to feel that in carrying out ier aggression upon Poland she was performing an act of public benefit: the future treaty restoring Poland merely a masked Nazi, But if he is German Nazi, he is at a not an "impartial neutral," but at least completely deceived by "erman Nazi friends 05 to all realities.
The realization of this peace progxamme—of which I only approve the admission of the "Anschluss" and the concession of Danzig—means.
(2) The complete and eternal umph of Hiller and "Naztdom "in many, and. with this the fish of Barta ies acai cobleg of Capa etn carrenz ra as ale "tat SaaS wane" "et
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