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With its 80,000 words, presented in less than six months from the armistice the peace treaty is the longest and will probably be concluded in the shortest time of any comparable treaty in modern times. Treaties with which comparison is suggested are those of Westphalia, signed in 1648 after seven years deliberation, those of Utrecht signed in 1713, eighteen months after the preliminaries, and that of Vienna signed June 9, 1815, fourteen months after the first capitulation of Napoleon but while the opposing forces were gathering for the final struggle at Waterloo...
From the military standpoint, comparison with the treaty of Frankfort ending the war of 1870 is suggested. The wrongs committed by Germany at that time are righted. Germany admits defeat and submits to the loss of all her colonies, one-fifth of her territory in Europe and conditions designed to render her militarily helpless in the future. She also admits responsibility for the war and liability to make full reparation. The legal rights of inhabitants in occupied regions and the provisions of international law relating to the apportionment of public debt and the revival of pre-war treaties are recognized...
...comparison with other colleges, the University has the largest registration of any at the American University Union in Paris. Yale comes second and Princeton third, while the others are represented according to their size. A total of 140 colleges are members of the Union, of which one hundred pay an annual assessment to meet the expenses of the establishment. The latest available records show the following registration figures: Harvard, 3168 Yale, 2200 Princeton, 1650 Dartmouth, 550 Amherst, 520 Williams, 450 Brown, 375 Bowdoin...
...fact Senator Knox's speech on March 1 was based essentially on this proposition. President Lowell must show conclusively that no such violations exist, that whatever of sovereignty the United States gives up in taking her share in the responsibilities of the League will be so insignificant in comparison with the ensuing benefits as not to bear discussion. Senator Lodge, however, has an equally difficult task in successfully maintaining that America ought not to forego the Monroe Doctrine and Washington's advice at a moment when the world's problems seem to many more far-reaching than Monroe or Washington...
...chief arguments in favor of the destruction of the ships is that their distribution would increase taxation. We fall to see how this is true. Taxes would be needed only for the upkeep of the ships, a negligible amount in comparison to those required for building and maintaining new ones. And even admitting that the League of Nations will be adopted, each country must keep increasing its naval armament until the "Executive Council shall formulate plans for effecting . . . . . reduction." Most people will agree that the proposed reduction is intended to be gradual, caused by discontinuing to build more ships rather...