Show 1 i The Truth About the Treaty I I i I j A NOTHER foot five foot shelf of books has been 4 f suggested It will be made up entirely o 0 of volumes under the general title The Truth About the Peace Treaty c The suggestion tion is not b b br except that the e shelf ought bugh io to be capable of extension to to toan an I indefinite length judging by the rapidity with which the peace treaty literature is coming S from the presses Dur During ng the treaty negotiations and nd for some someS sometime sometime S time me after the world vas was led to fo believe that the 1 only m men n who w kne-w what was going on m n at Paris aris were the big four four Wilson Wilson George Clemenceau I and Orlando Nearly ev everybody else disclaimed all responsibility for foJ the famous us document t on the grou ground d that all Ot of the important deci decisions ions upon which it was based were arrived arnved at in big four secrecy S Now it seems as though thought despite the much f a advertised secrecy about everybody who wa was it Lf or near Paris in those hectic days days' considers consider hi him him- m- m self elf qualified to tell the truth about the treaty treat i S Naturally each one has a different truth i to tell depending on his nationality and what he lie wants to prove Having read all of the f truths up P to 10 now we feel that we know less ss ab about ut what S really happened than before we read ai any nY of them I Inc Incidentally dentally it is to be noted that the four men who really know what the truth is have not taken k n their pens in hand to tell it If and when they do it will be worth reading which is more than can be said of most of the thet t truths by self-appointed self truth tellers Probably the most worth while of the truths is s the latest one by Andre Tardieu who acc according according accord accord- rd- rd ing to his book was in the big four holy of holies holiest t several times J But about the best that can be said of his Truth ruth About the Treaty is that it is Js not ot as 2 a and inadequate quate as the others f r rP P t fl-vi fl c |