ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the disappointments of the Paris settlement and the various points in mitigation, and turns to the positive advantages to set against the admitted weaknesses of this great international effort. The advantages are: It brought the war to an end, which after all is the first object of a peace treaty. it was followed rapidly by the demobilization of various armies, and disappearance of long-sustained tension and strain in the countries of all the belligerents, the Paris Conference set going the machinery for bringing relief to many starving populations scattered over Europe, and for starting up the economic life of the former belligerent and neutral countries, International Labour Office was destined to do a great work within an important sphere, the Conference had built up a machinery for later international conferences, and especially for the Supreme Control, which produce, treaties drawn up on the same pattern with Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary, and three years later with Turkey.
