New Britain herald., 1915-03-02
DR. 1RYON OUTLINES 
 PEACE PROSPECTS 
Says Civilization Is Not Ready for
 World Federation and Police.

In his lecture last night before thu 1 Commonwealth club on World Fed
 eration and Police," Dr. James l.
 Iryon of Boston, director of the New
 England department of the American
 Peace society said that world feder
 ation probably is farther away thar l most of Us think and, an 1nternationa l police service is something we are not
 ready for.
 l In regard to the present war, he 1 said that the terms of peace will not 1 be settled according to the judgment l of court of arbitration, but accord l ing to the wishes of the victors, as has always been the case in the past With that as a basis, we may be able to go forward with the general movement toward the federation of the world. The history of the treaty of Vienna will repeat itself, he be- lieved, for the belligerents will work out a settlement by which the nations will be able to live in peace for a few years to come
 AS for the United States, said the speaker. our business is to. draw closer together all of the Amer
 
 feet unity in this hemisphere A dread of the consequence that would follow meddling on the part of the United States in the affairs of Flu rope was implied in his speech and showed itself in his arguments against an international police. Coercion of any sort he believed, would initiate against the whole peace propaganda.
 Burritt Pageant Praised.
 As a substitute for the present in tenslve conception of nationality, Dr. Tryon urged a broader universalism In this connection he praised the principle of the Burritt celebration. The conception of a common broth erhood that was so we'll expressed here," he said, will ultimately be- come the conception of the world and men will say, My fatherland is the fatherland of the world "
 pr. Tryon suggested three possible solutions of present international diff ficulties. First was the preponder- ance of one nation as a great world empire. In such world empire, however, there is no path to peace, only the sign of the skull and bones.
 The solution of a world federation he set aside as dream of the fu- ture, something for which the world is not prepared He reminded his hearers that the schemes for a world federation wese just as excellent and just as plentiful now as in 1915. just after the Napoleonic era
 Balance of Power Solution.
 The solution he regards as most l likely to be adopted is the old bal ance of power alignment of the l powers of Europe. Such an align ment probably would bring about peace, but not permanent peace. As long as there are alliances and counter alliances he said, there can be no peace. This was one of the lessons of the war
 One of the schemes for world fed eration proposed at the close of the era was that of Alexander of Russia, who proposed a United states or Europe. He wanted Rus soa and England to be the centers of this new federation, Austria to be included later, and the other coun- 1 tries of Europe to follow. Later Alexander's ideas changed to that l of a universal federation
 The czar's efforts at universal l Federation were nullifed by his plan for an international police. England 1 was not long in realizing that a CO., ercive international police could be l used as readily in quelling insurrec- tions within states as in forcing an unruly neighbor to keep the peace l As Russia had a large number of such i on her hands at that time, the other parties to the plan re- fused to pull Russia's chestnuts out of the fire.
 Reject Coercive Principle.
 The Hague conference was a re- of the czar's ideas, but the principle of coercion has been left 1 out of the treaties that have been made. pr. Tryon went into a detailed history of the conferences that have | been held at the Hague and the things that have been accomplished. The first conference considered the rules for the regulation and preven- ton of warfare. The second confer ence took up the principle of neu- tral1ty. which has become so vital