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Squandered Graves
THE THREAD by which the
pence of Europe hung has [been cut through by the sabre, long rattled, in the volatile hand of a naturalised German gentle- man called Adolf Hitler,
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hand, on the veteran Generalissimo Foch, beseeching him in accents of panic to name his peace terms. and save Germany from a hideous jsanve qui peut, The British War Office confidently told us that there would be no more European wars for sixty years!
THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING (OFFICIAL)
Snapshot
Twenty-five years ago the Archduke Franz Fer- dinand was assassinated at Serajevo.
Twenty years ago the Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
Sixty-eight years ago, in 1871, the German Em-
pire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
of the treaty."
Strube in the “Daily Express”
Album Of
A Treaty
of this day as the beginning of a new epack!"
War
WIL
Naval man Chancellor.
'Teuty
signed; the February 1033.-Japan walks out Franco-Soviet Poet was signed. Ver- of the League over the question or suilles was becoming a shadow. The 1928. The Pact of Paris signed, her vision of Manchuria.
new European line-up was slowly renounced by 15 Viscount Salto, Japanese Prime forming. nations as an instrument of national Minister: "Japan' will continue to Footnote to 1935 by Hitler: policy.
cu-operate in international enter- "Germany will unreservedly res- history of mankind."
M. Briand: "A new date in the prises designed to further the wel- pect the territorial provisions of
fare of mankind.”
the Versailles Treaty." Mr. Coolloge: “A
October 1933-Germany cuves
civilisution."
the pinch.
document o
Germany bumps along the
Versailles, which was built on the
capital importance in the history of the Disarmament Conference and the 1936.
Qg -Germany reoccupied the League of Nations.
Rhineland. Denounced the Hitler: "We cannot continue to live Versailles. Denounced the Treaty of relevant clauses of the Treaty of 1929.
bottom of depression; the under the shadow of the Treaty of Locarno. slump hits Wall-street; Britain feels impossible idea that for eternity on alarin
France stood to arms. A wave of set of nations were the victors and powers met.
passed over Europe. The 1930.
The League Council -Germany · cannot pay her one nation the conquered.”
inet. Proposals were made. Counter- reparations. The total is
March 11-Offlefal erra- Proposals came from Berlin. But sealed down under the Young Pan. 1935.
tion of 2
German Air nothing happened. The Rheinland Force.
was armed again. General Goering: "Germany's new
British
Government in a Note:
M. Paincare: "We owe 11 on 2825*
prace treaties."
Great
The truest tribute paid to our FOR 20 years that name "Ver- dead to resist any assault on the muddied khaki warriors, who en- sailles" has been on men's The Daily Mail, September 17, air Beet is the most modern in the "This unilateral action must neces world. It has no old acroplanes, surlly appear to be a threat to Euro- dured so stoically and jovially lips. Here is an extract from 1930:
"A leader of the German Na Force is equal
The strength of the Garman Air Peon security, right to the end of that nightmare | The Daily Mail, June 30, 1919:
to that of
M. Sarrout, French Premier: "We M. Clemenceau rose in the Hali Party, Adolf Hitler, says, “Give place, Britain."
have been faced with a falt accompli ordeal of 1914-18, came from Sir of Mirrors: "Signatures are about to you men who have lived too long, to Morch 16.Germany
denounces in its most brutal form. There is no Philip Gibbs. He wrote, In his be exchanged, They constitute an
new-born power. In our camp the military clauses of the Treaty of longer peace in Europe." summing up of the Great Adven- irrevocable engagement to execute stands the Germany of the future.” Versailles; announces the immediate Hiller: "It is no use speaking of ture, how the British Tommies had loyalty and faithfully all the terms 1899 –The Disarmament Confer formation of an Army of 500,000, the sanctity of treaties if those trea- tles have been made under the hated it all, the muck, the lee; the President Wilson; "We are here to years-old treaty, meets at Geneva,
ence, to carry out the 13- men.
The British Government, in a Note menace of guns. The regained free- bitter privations, the blood, the see that the very foundations of war At Lausanne a moratorium is granted to the German Government: "Suck dom of the Rhineland will never be
endar swept away?"
German reparations, Germany a declaration is a further example of Mr. Lloyd George to his Majesty King
The Daily Mail, May 9, 1932: "Dr. the issue of principle, is calculated pendent by the Treaty of Versailles unilateral action, which, apart from 1938-Hutter invades Austria. A George V. "The long and ter rible war in which the British Em- Bruning, German Chancellor, made
to increase uneasiness in disappears overnight. pire has Germ
Schuschnigg: "God save Austria!” Hiter: "Self-respect is what I have
Hitler: "What harm have we done given to the German nation. They "Yielding to overwhelming force the 1933. pledged to destroy the of Versailles."
could not go on ving under the to any foreign country? Whose in- 30. Hitler, humiliating depression of the Treaty with the will of the overwhelming terests have we hurt by falling in Government of thes German Ne-
ngony, but stuck it to the because they were fighting something precious to thent.
for
We had the Germans down and out in 1918. How comes it that, in 1939, they have once more becn
able to plunge the world into the holocaust of war. Why has tired and jaded old Europe, after such a catastrophic upheaval o the Great War, now to gird up its loins Jagain to face another?
History repeats itself, we are told. But surely even history needs a longer breather than this?
an
חם
pays no more,
Empire has been brought to manding Germany's right to equal
armaments." Herr Ebert (German Chancellor):
been engaged with the an impassioned speech to-day de- Europe; **
—January
lost."
notion proclaimed inde-
Public declares that it is willing to Treaty of Versailles, becomes Ger- Later in 1935, the Anglo-German majority of the Austrian prople? I
accept and sign the conditions of peace.
What were those conditions? Main- GRIN AND BEAR IT
ly these:
Germany tost territory in Eu- горе
The Rhineland was demilitarised. Germany recognised the now State of Czecho-Slovakia and the Polish Corridor; respected the In- dependence of Austria.
Danzig was made free City. Germany lost her Colonies.
Germany was disarmed.
·
Germany agreed to pay repara- Hons.
Our tragic error, it is now quite evident, is not that we were not kind enough to a beaten enemy. Our mistake was in falling to back France at every stage against Germany's peace treaty evasiona and infractions. Actually, nobody wants to keep Germany down. But sensible people, with Illusions about Teutonic mentality, would certainly have kept her dis- armed. Every page of history Hitler, has written since he came to power has shown that Germany the Treaty as the years passed. has not yet advanced beyond the
no
Germany accepted responsibility for the loss and damage caused by the war.
The League of Nations was es- iablished. The Covenant formed part of the treaty,
And now see what happened to
mentality of mediaeval swaddling 1920.
-First crack in the fabric. The Senate of the United
clothes, They still worship at the States rejected the treaty: refused to altar of Mars, and sincerelydrag America into the League. idolise the ethics, not of Calvary,
but of Thor and Wodin. Germans 1922-The Reparations Commit-
do not now think for themselves.
They inhale a mass propaganda default. and batten upon the Goebbelllan huska.
They threaten the world with a
declared a German
1923. French troops occupied
the Ituhr,
fresh Armaggodon Britain's 1925. -Locarno patched the un-
war
sound structure of Ver-|
million stili unlichonod graves, in acres that are "for oversailles. Britain, Germany, France, England", reproach us with, their drew together in a pact of mutual allent agony of squandered valour and endurance,
The gods have made Hitler mad enough to plunge the world into war. Let us pray they hope to destroy him and what he stands
for.
security,
Mr. Austin Chamberlalu: "It means the dawn of a new era of friendship good will among nations."
M. Brand: "...the inauguration of
a new era of peace.” .
Dr. Streseman: "May later genera
have reason to think gratefully
"You simply have to get me
By Lichty
"Did—the cops all know
was deceived by Schuschnigg. Be-
tolerate."
trayal is something I will not
Mr. Chamberlain These events call for the severeat, condemnation, and have administered a profound shock to all who are interested in the preservation of European peace."
September-Hitler demands, and receives, the ceision of the Sudeten- from Czecho-Slovakia, The Munich Agreement
Jand
The Czech Prime Minister: "We had to choose between a useless fight and sacrifices. The main thing fa that we are remaining ourselves, and we must be united"
Hitler; "This is
his is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe. Į shall not be interested in the Czech State any more, and I can guarantee It. We do not want any. Czechs any
1939March. Hitler Invades
As the rump of Czecho- Slovakin incorporates within the Relch the Czech States of Bohemia and Moravia.com
A country sựt up, by the Treaty of Versailles disappears from the map. Hiller occuples Memel. A territory formed by the Treaty of Versailles is free no longer. Hitler says that
will
bo German." A Free City, established by the
the Treaty of
"Dandig
Versailles le thres
"Germany," says
"overesme" the Treaty of
"by her own trength. Hatred, malice, and une reason were the Intellectunt forebears of the Treaty:; ófi Varaallles. It it were not set down in black and white, later generations might regard it as the product of a wild, corrupt
¡¡The Long The
of Nations is dend. Aller le dénd,