THE TREATY AND THE FOURTEEN POINTS. By B. G. de
Montmorency.
The literature of the peace treaties is considerable, and Mr. de Montmorency has added to it a curious example. It is by no means the " very remarkable book " his publisher asserts it to be, but merely a competent examination of the familiar question of whether the peace treaty terms correspond with or contravene the Fourteen Points of President Wilson which the Germans accepted with their eyes open as a condition–. the fundamental condition—of the Armistice in 1918. The odd feature about the volume Versailles (Methuen, 5s.) is that, while it ostensibly sets out to convict the Allies of gross breaches of faith, its author in fact concedes that on point after point the treaty terms are open to no just objection. Repays. tions are no longer a live issue since Lausanne, but on dis. armament, the indirect prohibition of the Ansehhiss and the clean sweep of the German colonies Mr. de Montmorency makes a case that demands consideration against the treaty. It does no harm to be reminded periodically that the Fourteen Points were its agreed basis.
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