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The Inimical Influence of the Versailles Treaty
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There would then have resulted a different Treaty. For
it would be improper, in the broad view, to seek to explain the
Nazist accession to power without ascriging the major causation
to the Versailles Treaty, It was this or Hitler's misrepresen-
tation of it, which had rallied the crowds to his "cause." The
other factors I have noted were s ome of them so important that the
absence of any one of them might have saved the Republic and the
world's peace. Yet the influences flowing from the mischievous,
because incompetent, Versailles Treaty were so inimical: to the
success of the Republic, and to the promotion of the cause of peace,
that a higher and more alert statesmanship was needed to clear the
path than that which was exhibited amongst the Victor-Powers The
bad influence of the Treaty had been shown, needless to say, other-
wise and often before; but it was shown in a fateful manifestation
in the year 1928. This has not previously been emphasized; but in
reality it is to this date we should go back in seeking explanation
of the failure of the Weimar Republic. In that year its evolution
was deflected the wrong way; and because of the Treaty
Just preceding that date the Government had been constituted
of a coalition of the Catholic Centrum with the Right. This was,
under German party conditions, a wholly normal and necessary situa-
tion. Stresemann had said with truth: "In Germany nothing zan be
done without the Centrum. It is interesting to note that it was
this Centre-Right Coalition, not any "socialist government", which
had placed on the German statute-book the Unemployment Insurance
Law, upon the administration of which the Republican System, un-
fortunately, was destined ere long to founder.
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