on perfectly that amon ught to be the verdict. of predicision about. far there is a verdict ased upon them by a Connoil which they havë not even s ace of being heard, and in which, even if they should happen to have a rote, the decision resta ultimately and definitely Fie the hands of the Big Fire.U What the League of Nations had been in existence in August, 1914 and if the verdict of the Permanent Council had gone as undoubtedly and with per fect right should have gone against Germany Would it have been Holland's duty, at the behest of the Council, to take up the oudgel to be butch "ered and downtrodden ransacked and plundered as Belgium was to be released with great diffiául.. ty and enormous sacrifice at the end of four yearatoni M. Holland's Bedrality has cost for-military, giperises only one billion florins » 1,000,000. francs), and the
been increased by
has one and
a half bulion not b mention the enormous faerense for all duties and taxes and the general priva tions caused the population dur- ing over four years Certainly. that record is not so bad for a nation of six-million inhabitants!
At the same scale the neutrality, of the United States, with its hundred millions of people, would have cost them. twenty-five billions of florins, ten billions of dollars, for neutrality only, and America's military expenditure for safeguarding that neutrality at the same scale as Holland had to do it would have amounted to 154 florins, or about $65 per capita, or $5,500,000,000.
A LEGEND.
These facts ought to make an end, once and for all, to the legend that Holland has been making money out of the war owing to its neutrality It will take several- years very likely to complete & statistical survey of the accretion of wealth of (some) Dutch citizens, but from the aggregate amount "earned" by these war profiteers the war losses ought to be defäct- ed. And as these have not been sustained by some private people (so that the loss of the one could be outbalanced by the gain of the. other), but by the community as a whole. I am not so, certain that Holland has really made any profit at all
The amount by which the State debt has increased, the 'underfeed- ing, the rationing of everything, the atter lack of all luxury foods, of tea, of coffee and cocoa, of wine and the shortage of milk, cheese and butter in a dairy- producing country like Holland, meatless' months, the
utter
e of fats and pork products ey all tell their own jale, nevertheless, a section of the Bel Kisa and French press continue. their utterly unfounded tale of Holland's pro-German proclivities and of the passage: granted to German trooofer Dutch [ territory during the first days of -the war.
This brings Dutch critics of the Covenant of Nations to a third desideratum, viz, the demand that an international droit, de reponse should incorporated-in the constitution of the League."
President Wilson's statement in submitting the covenant to the plenary session, and which is regarded as an inherent part thereof, in which be said that any litigant had the right of bringing his case before the wider forum of public opinion is often cited in. connection herewith, People confend that as long as; public opinion is being made by a one- sided press, and as long as a vation lacks the right of rectify. ing alander and mis-statements, such public opinion is valueless as being Tarde by a biassed: "judge
Therefore, they claim. The right of answer," which the French law grants to every private citizen who is misrepre sented or victimized by slander in the French press. The nation should not take the night ite subjects enjoy, and as long As there does not exist a well-established right to the effect of misrepresentation to the detriment of a nation or govern ment that can be con
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Clemenceau It is reported from Budapest that M telegraphed the Hungarian Government that the Allies have charged the Commander-in-Chief of the Czecho-Slovak army, " General Pell, to arrange for the evacuation of Czecho- Slovakia. Full compensation will be demanded for unlawful damage. After evacuation the Allies will request the Ramanian armies to evacuate Hungary under similar con- ditions. General Pell was directed concerning cessation of hostilities on June 24 and complete evacuation by June 23. The Hungarian commander, General Von Boehm, declared his readiness to falful the conditions.
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ал interchange of communications hostilities on the Hungarian-Czecho-Slovak front ceased on June 24 although the Magyars are not evacuating occupied territory.
FURTHER PEACE DETAILS.
Berlin, June 2
It is announced that the Ministers Mueller and Bell
at the unanimous request of the Imperial Government have decided to sign the Peace Treaty. "Under the terrible pressure of national distress and the absolute necessity of Snally attaining Peace they are thable to shrink from this last hard sacrifice."
Paris, June 28.
An official message dated June 26 says the three German delegat appointed to sign the Treaty are Herren Mueller, Giesberts and another. The four documents will be signed at Versailles. The Treaty and Protocol will be signed by all concerned, the Rhineland agreement by the Five Great Powert and Germany and the Polish treaty by the Poles, Germans and Five Powers.
The names of the German Peace delegation are officially 'eonfirmed.
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Poland has appealed to the Council of Five for per- mission to use General Haller's army to rid a section of Galicia between Lemberg and the Ukrainian border of organised bands who are plundering the country, murdering and torturing peasants and making it impossible for Polish oficials to establish order. The Ukrainian Government dis- claims: responsibility for the robber bands which make no pretence of, belonging to say Government Consequently the use of General Haller's forces against the outlaws/fa nat a violation of the semistice between Poland and the Petlara Government.
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