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The Economic Consequences of the Peace

CHAPTER VII
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The relations of Central Europe to Russia.
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_The Revision of the Treaty_ Are any constitutional means open to us for altering the Treaty?
President Wilson and General Smuts, who believe that to have secured the Covenant of the League of Nations outweighs much evil in the rest of the Treaty, have indicated that we must look to the League for the gradual evolution of a more tolerable life for Europe.

"There are territorial settlements," General Smuts wrote in his statement on signing the Peace Treaty, "which will need revision.

There are guarantees laid down which we all hope will soon be found out of harmony with the new peaceful temper and unarmed state of our former enemies.

There are punishments foreshadowed over most of which a calmer mood may yet prefer to pass the sponge of oblivion.


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