Although the Western Pact is thus practicallyachieved, the Eastern treaties—the
treaties which have to do with the boundaries between Germany and Poland and Ger- many and Czecho-Slovakia—have yet to be dealt with. It was an admirable arrangement to keep the Western Pact in isolation. Only in that way was it possible to reach so speedy an agreement. The attempt to draw up arbitration treaties about Germany's eastern frontiers may cause many difficulties. Shall these treaties be modelled.on the German-Swiss Arbitration Treaty, which virtually excludes political disputes" from arbitration, or shall they be modelled as nearly as possible upon the Western Pact ? Whatever decisions may be taken we at least have grounds for hoping that the Western Pact Will create a nucleus of safe territory where confidence will steadily grow, and whence the influences of peace and quiet will radiate outwards.
