Show I- I 4 Getting Down to Business 1 arc are that delegates at nt the peace conference con con- JL ference will tackle their problems with new deter deter- determination with the view ie of preparing a preliminary peace leac treaty in the next two weeks It has bits been announced 1 that the French and American viewpoints in it 1 Paris are arc united and that the various arious committees at nt L. L work fork on the great problems of peace have been urged to tc I speed their work We e can reach roach but one conclusion from this turn turu ol of affairs and that is is' that a a. temporary peace at least i ito is islo to lo be established before the League of Nations plan 1 final action Undoubtedly the new nev course wile will wil I e receive c general commendation because it will ill result in it I partial s solution lution of or problems which have been sidetracked L in iii the thc interest of the League of Nations Nation I It lt is now nearly four months since the armistice was i signed and nail the world is yet et uncertain as to its future m peace Tho Tue League of or Nations has been offered as fiS th the i key to the situation but this in itself fails t to settle the momentous problems of or the thc wold war A As Asa a it would seem scorn that the thc past has hns voted to tc toa a 1 consideration of the future rather than of fIre or-fIre present The rhe new determination to speed deliberations ns i is bound to aid in righting th these thc e positions serving ser ps as is it ii does docs to encourage an ef rt for peace before world re Ie fo formation The problems of war arc are to be bc settled in ir inthe inthe the peace conference The Tue settlement is to tobe be bc made before be be- fore the establishment of world ideals is possible Par For this lea reason On it is encouraging to note that the thc th peael conference i is about to function in field Even a temporary peace treaty is to be preferred L to lo the present chaotic state and we arc are not to forget that delays in in the formulation of Jh the peace treaty work to te the advantage of Germany The peace treaty also cannot canS can not fail to throw more light on the League of f Nations which is is probably the biggest thing before the world I today commanding mature and deliberate consideration and and should have the light of the experience of the peace conference as related to the settlement of the war |