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HE THREAD by which the

THE

peace of Europe hung has been ent 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 nccents of panic to name his pence terms and save Germany from a hideous i sauve qui prut. 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.

FOR 20 years that name "Ver-

Strube in the “Daily Express"

Album Of

A Treaty

Treaty

Nuvul

dgned;

Was

the

of this day is the beginning of a new man Chancellor, epoch!"

February 1933-Japan walks out Franco-Soviet Pact was signed. Ver- of the League over the question of sailles was becoming a sludow. The her invasion of Munchuria.

new European line-up was slowly

1928.

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The Pact of Parls signed.

War renounced by nations as an instrument of national policy.

Viscount Saito, Japanese Prime forming. Minister: "Japan will continue to co-operate in international enter- M. Brland: "A new date in the prises designed to further the wel- history of mankind."

Mr. Cooliage: "A document

civilisation.”-

of

fare of mankind."

October 1933.-Germany icaves

Footnote to 1935 by Hitler:

"Germany will unreservedly rea pect the territorial provisions of the Versailles Treaty."

capital importance in the history of the Disarmament Conference and the 1936.-Germany reoccupied the Rhineland, Denounced the League of Nations,

relevant clauses of the Treaty of Hitler: "We cannot continue to live Versailles. Denounced the Treaty of

Locarno.

1929.-Germany bumps along the under the shadow of the Treaty of bottom of depression; the Versailles, which was built on the

stump hits Wall-street; Britain feels impossible idea that for eternity one the pinch.

reparations. The total is

M. Poincare: "We owe it on our dead to resist any Assaul on the

peace treaties."

Force.

10,-Germany

bitter privations, the blood, the see that the very foundations of war At Lausanne a moratorium is granted to the German Government: "Such dom of the Rhineland will never be

France stood to arms. A wave of alarm

pussed

over Europe. The set of nations were the victors and

Powers met. The League Council 1930.-

-Germany cannot pay her one nation the conquered."

Proposals were made. Counter-

from Berlin. But - 25-March 11-Omcial crea- proposals came scaled down under the Young Plan 1935. Mons of a German le nothing happened. The Rheinland

was armed again.

British Government in a Note: General Goering: "Germany's new The truest tribute paid to our

air ficet is the most modern. In the "This unilateral action must neces- sailles" has been on men's muddied khaki warriors, who en-

The Daily Mall, September 17, world. It has no old ueroplanes, sarily appear to be a threat to Euro

The strength of the German dured so stoically and jovially lips. Here is an extract from 1930:

Air peon security." "A lender of the German Nazi Force is equal to that of Great M. Sarraut, French Premier: "We right to the end of that nightmare The Daily Mail, June 30, 1919:

M. Clemenceau rose in the Hall Party, Adolf Hitler, says, 'Give place, Britain.

faced with a fait accompli have been f

ja no March ordeal of 1914-18, came from Sir of Mirrors: "Signatures are about to you men who have lived too long, to

denounces in its must brutal form. There Philip Gibbs. He wrote, in his be exchanged. They constitute an new-born power, In our camp the military clauses of the Treaty at longer peace in Europe."

Hitler: "It is no uso speaking of Versailles; announces the immediate summing up of the Great Adven-irrevocable engagement to execute stands the Germany of the future."

1029 -The Disarmament Confer- formation of an Army of 600,000 the sanctity of treaties if those trea- tics have been made under the ture, how the British Tommies had loyally and faithfully all the terms

of the treaty."

1954.

mca. ence, to carry out the 13-

The regained free- hated it all, the muck, the ice, the President Wilson: "We are here to years-old treaty, meets at Geneva,

The British Government in a Note menace of guns.

Jost." agony, but stuck it to the end are swept away."

on German reparations. Germany a declaration is a further example of Mr. Lloyd George to his Majesty pays no more. because they were

unilateral action, which, apart from 1938-Hitler Invades Austria. A fighting for King George V.: "The long and ter-

nation proclaimed inde- The Delly Moll, May & 1932: "Dr. the issue of principle, is, calculated something precious to them.

ible war in which the British Em Druning, German Chancellor, made

disappears overnight, We had the Germans down and

Hitler: "Self-respect to what I have

Schuschnigg: "God save Austria!" out in 1918. How comes it that,

Hitler: "What harm have we done given to the German nation. They In 1939, they have once more been

could not go on living under the to any foreign country? Whose in- able to plunge the world into the yielding to overwhelming force the 1933 January 30. Hitler, humiliating depression of the Treaty teresa have we hurt by falling in with the will of the overwhelming holocaust of war. Why has tired Government of the German

Later in 1935, the Anglo-German majority of the Austrian people? and jaded eld Europe, after such publle declares that it is willing to Treaty of Versailles, becomes Ger-

was decaived by Schuschnigg. Be~ and sign the conditions of

trayal is something I will not. catastrophic upheaval 08

the peace

tolerate. AND BEAR IT [Great War, now to gird up its loins

What were those conditions? Main- ly these: again to face another?

Germany lost territory in Eu- rope.

History repeats itself, we are told. But surely aven history needs a longer breather than this?

pire has been engaged with the an impassioned speech to day de Europe to increase uneasiness in pendent by the Treaty of Versalles

German Empire has been brought to manding Germany's right to equal

Her Ebert (German Chancellor):

an end."

Re-

new

The Rhineland was demilitarised. Germany recognised the State of Czecho-Slovakia and the Pollsh Corridor; respected the in- dependence of Austria.

Danzig was made a free Clly, Germany lost her Colonies. Germany was disarmed.

Germany agreed to pay repara-

tions.

Our tragic error, it is now quite evident, is not that we were not kind enough to a beaten enemy. Our mistake was in failing to back France at every stage against Germany's peace treaty evasions and Infractions. Actually, nobody wants to keep Germany down. But sensible people, with Illusions about Teutonic mentality, would certainly havo 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 low and damage caused by the war.

The League of Nailons was co- tablished. The Covenant formed "part of the tresty,

And now see what happened to

First crack in the fabric.

mentality of mediaeval-awaddling 1920. The Senate of the United clothes. They still worship at the states rejected the treaty: refused to nitar of Mars, and sincerely | drag Americs into the League, idollso the ethics, not of Calvary,

but of Thor and Wodin. Germans 1922. The Reparations Commit-

do not now think for themselves. They inhale a

mans propaganda default, and batten upon the Gachbellian husks,

tee declared a German

1923.-French troops occupied They threaten the world with a da

frosh Armaggedon. Britain's 1925.

million stifl unlichened

war

Rubr.

1095 -Locarno patched the un- sound structure of Ver- graves, in acres that are "for ever sailles. Britain, Germany, France. England", reproach us with their drew together in a pact of mutual silent agony of squandered valour security, 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.

Mr. Austin Chamberlain: "It means the dawn of a new era of friendship add good will among nations."

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M. Brland: ...the inauguration of

a new era of peace.? C

Dr. Btreseman: "May Inter genera- Uons have reason to think gratefully

armaments."

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pledged to destroy the of Versailles,"

GRIN

By Lichty

"You simply have to get me a new car, Dad--the cops'all know

this bus and lay for it!"

Mr. Chamberlain: "These events coli for the severest condemnation, und have administered a profound shock to all who are interested in the preservation of

of European peace." September-Hitler demands, and receives, the cession of the Sudeten-

from Czecho-Slovakia. Munich Agreement.

lond

The

The Czech Prime Minister: "We had to choose between a useless fight and sacrifices. The main thing" is Uhat we are remaining ourselves, and we must be united."

Hitler: This is the last territoriai. clalm I have to make in Europe. shall not be interested, in. the Czech State any more, and I can guarantee It. We do not want any Czechs any more."

1939-March. Hiller invades the rump of Czecho- Slovakia; incorporates within the Reich the Czech States of Bohernia and Moravia.

A country set up by the Treaty of Versalles disappears from the map Hider. occupies Memel. A territory formed by the Treaty of Versailles le tree no longer. Hitler says that "Danzig will be German." A Free City established the Treaty of Versailles is

threatene

"Germany" Bays Hitler, overcame the Treaty of Versailles by her own strength. Hatred, malice, and time reason were the Intellectual forebears of the Treaty of Versailles. If were not sat down in black and white, later generations might regard. It as the product of a wild, corrupt fancy"

The League of Nations -la': dond The Treaty of Versaillos is dead."