VERSAILLES TREATY
AN INSTRUMENT OF VENGEANCE. SPEECH BY SIR lAN HAMILTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright'. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, October 1. General Sir lan Hamilton, at a war memorial unveiling ceremony at Cambuslang, «aid that peace was the last thing the makers of the Treaties of Versailles and Sevres thought about. They aimed at punishment. “When you seek rash payments for the blood of those you lost.” said Sir lan, ‘ money turns into scraps of dirty paper stamped with mocking promises. Had we truly aimed at peace, we might have inflicted a mortal wound on. war. We must aee the present crisis through as one man, and then remove our troops from the Rhine. The Grand Fleet is well able to take charge of our interests in Germany. Next, we must make a real League of Nations, and ask the League as its feist task to flood the powder magazine by revising the Treaty of VesaHles.”
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Southland Times, Issue 19654, 3 October 1922, Page 5
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