Excerpt from Dispatches: 1919-1921
Paris, May 26. - The reaction to the terms of the Peace Treaty with Germany among the internationally minded here doubtless follows much the same lines as in America. Politico-Social Second Adventists who climbed up on the housetops ready to jump off into the millennium the moment peace was signed naturally are chagrined to discover that they put on their white robes in vain.
A larger group, having held no such high hopes, finds itself embittered by no such disillusionment. Like the hymn writer, they do not ask to see the distant scene - one step is enough for them. They welcome the peace, not as bringing perfection at all, or even all they had hoped for, but at least as bringing progress, and promise of further progress under a growing League of Nations.
Millenniumists of the type of Bullitt, head of the much-discussed mission to Lenine, whose letter of resignation from the staff of the American commission has been published, decry the peace as a patchwork, imperialistic affair; "a peace without security."
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