PUBLIC LAW OF EUROPE
PEACE TREATY THE KEYSTONE. (Sun Special.) LONDON, January 10. “To-day is the fifth aninversary of the Treaty of Versailles,” says the Manchester Guardian in a leading article. “The Treaty is still the keystone of the arch of the public law of Europe. If treaties of peace are generally harsh, this one is no exception, but, unlike other treaties, if it contains the bane, it also contains the antidote. “The main function of the League of Nations is to repair faults of omission and commission made by the architects of peace. As faults develop the work of the League becomes more arduous and more necessary. In time, no doubt, the public law of Europe will be fashioned by the League, and the law fashioned by peace treaties wil be forgotten, except in text books and by historians. “We are still a long way from that, but there is little doubt of the steady growth of moral pressure exercised by the League over even the strongest nation when its policy runs counter to world opinion.”
The Manchester Guardian points out that Afghanistan, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Mexico, Turkey, the United States and the Soviets are the only nations now outside the League.
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Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 7
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