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of the treaty of peace were the main reasons for the chaos which
followed, and was bound to follow, the World War.  Then Welles placed
himself fully and entirely on Germany's side with regard to the tearing
up of the dictated Treaty of Versailles by solemnly declaring:
 
 
"We ought to have learned during the years since the Treaty of
Versailles that a permanent peace cannot be founded on feeings of
revenge, that millions of human beings cannot be forced to face a
hopeless future, that they cannot be expected to devote their whole
life to the task of making reparations for the alleged or real misdeeds
or mistakes of the leaders of an earlier generation in their
fatherland.  Men and women forced into such a situation always have
taken, and always will take, the first opportunity to free themselves
from such intolerable servitude.
 
 
"I think that/the primary and fundamental cause of ills from which the
world suffers today is that the injustices and wrong distribution of
territory after the World War have never been rectified or redressed.
And these causes are obviously not only of a political but also of an
economic and financial nature."
 
 
"Now