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which sounds, but is not, quite different. And whoknows but that the President forgot that anotherpart of the Treaty provides that for this purposethe Council of the League must be unanimous.

Instead of giving Danzig to Poland, the Treaty -establishes Danzig as a "Free" City, but includesthis "Free" City within the Polish Customs frontier,entrusts to Poland the control of the river andrailway system, and provides that £ 'the PolishGovernment shall undertake the conduct of theforeign relations of the Free City of Danzig as wellas the diplomatic protection of citizens of that citywhen abroad."

In placing the river system of Germany underforeign control, the Treaty speaks of declaring inter-national those " river systems which naturally providemore than one State with access to the sea, withor without transhipment from one vessel to another."

Such instances could be multiplied. The honestand intelligible purpose of French policy, to limit thepopulation of Germany and weaken her economicsystem, is clothed, for the President's sake, in theaugust language of freedom and international equality.

But perhaps the most decisive moment, in thedisintegration of the President's moral positionand the clouding of his mind, was when at last,to the dismay of his advisers, he allowed him-self to be persuaded that the expenditure of theAllied Governments on pensions and separation