"A FINE ACHIEVEMENT."

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9539, 3 March 1919, Page 5

"A FINE ACHIEVEMENT."

*■ GERMANY'S FUTURE

(Itweived March 3, 3p-m-) LONDON, March. "2

'IV "Observer's" Paris correspondent says :—The ContVrence achieved somotfung really fine in securing an assent to the draff convention, tor the League of Nations. With academic debates and indecision in all other directions, n great effort has been made to atone for the absence of a- general European policy, and to present us with the first scheme of a new world before fester. , Nothing vsubstantial vnli be attained so lows as we are in the dark concernino- the future of Germany and l.x,uss ia Germany us certain to endorse any conditions we now try to enforce on'her but within a decade she wU be able to tear up the treaty unless we liot only make her harmless, but- see ■that the treaty is compatible with the -.necessities ■of her futiu-o development, iff is far more important to us that Germany should be n Federative State from winch Prussian ism is PXcUidwl, -than that her border* run slightly tiiore east or more west..