GENERAL SMUTS THE PROMISE OF LIFE
"This Treaty is simply the liquidation of the war situation in tho world," says General Smuts in a very fine niessagh. "The promise of the new iife, the victory'of the great human ideals, for which tho peoples have shed their blood and their treasure, without stint, the fulfilment ot their aspirations towards a new international order, and a fairer, tetter world,_ are not written in this Treaty, and will not he written in treaties. 'Not in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, hut in spirit and in truth,' as tlie Great Master said, must tho foundations of tho new order be laid. "A new heart must be given, .not only to our enemies, but atso to us; a contrite spirit for the woes which have overwhelmed • tho world; a spirit of pity, mejcy, and forgiveness for the sins and wrongs which we have suffered. "A new spirit of generosity and humanity, born in the hearts of the peoples in tliis great hour of common suffering and sorrow, can alone head the wounds which have been inflicted on tho My of Christendom. "And this new spirit amon* the peoples will bo tho solvent for the problems which the statesmen had found too hard at the Conference."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 7
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210GENERAL SMUTS THE PROMISE OF LIFE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 7
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