New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-03
Wilson and Hughes
Favor Peace I.eague,
Says Bryce.
SHOWS VALUE
OF NEUTRAL'S AID
Conflict in Vain Unless
Future Is Assured,
Says Ex-Envoy.
IBy Cable 70 The Tribune.l

London, Oct. with the aid or the
United States there is real hope that
after the war an international alliance
may be created. Such a move would be
warmly welcomed in Britain.
This is the opinion expressed by
Viscount Bryce, former Ambassador to
the United States, in an article in The
Manchester Guardian" which will ap-
pear tomorrow.
Viscount Bryce says many schemes
for such a union of the nations have
been secretly framed in England, but
they had never received publicity be-
cause the national mind was too alb
sorbed with the conduct of the war.
mo words are needed" he says, ITO
emphasize the significance of these
declarations by the standard bearers
of the two great American parties.
The creation of some international al
lance embracing all the peace loving
nations could hardly succeed without
the cooperation of the greatest OF all
neutral nations. With that coopera-
tion, difficult as the effort TO construct
such scheme will be, there is at least
real hope of success.
Largely in vain will this war have
bech fought and all these suferlngs
endured If the peoples of the world
are TO fall back into a state OF perma-
nent alarm, suspicion and hostility,
each weighed down by frightful bur-
den OF armaments. Let US hope the
profrered help of America will Ell,
courage the statesmen of Europe and
draw from them a responsive note"
"Now, however," Mr.. Bryce adds,
"when victory seems TO be coming into
sight, and when We know that both we
and our allies are absolutely united IN
our resolve to prosecute 1t until that
victory is complete, the reasons Tor re-
serve may soon disappear"
Discussing American opinion on the
war. Viscount Bryce points out that
both President Wilson and Charles L.
Hughes have indorsed the plan for
league of nations.
Sees Sympathy for Allies.
1.-TWO things are quite clear. One
is that the vast majority of those
Americans who have any opinion at
all-for. of course, there are many
among recent immigrants who can
hardly be AS yet called Americans-ar
in sympathy with the Allies and wish
them victory.
Hardly any native Americans vent
ure to come forward as advocates OF
Germany. Her defence is left almost
entirely TO men of German blood ana
chiefly to those who have themselves
come recently from Europe and still
feel themselves to be Germans rather
than Americans.
"The second thing that has become
clear is that the United States IS not
now likely to enter the war. The only
event that can be contemplated as cal
culated TO draw j, in would be re-
sumption by the German government
of that ruthless policy in warfare by
submarines which sank the Lusltania,
the Falaba and the Sussex. Such con
duct. of course BY no means Impossible
there is nothing one can call impos-
sible TO a German government driven
to fury by failures at least improo-
able"
Quotes DIR. Elliot.
Lord Bryce refers to many persons,
particularly in the Atlantic coast cities,
who hold that America ought 10 inter-
vene and refers to the "illustrious eX-
president Of Harvard University
Charles W. Eliot, and points out why
at is not the view of the American
nation as a whole" In the course of
his recital Of the reasons for this at
titude Bryce remarks:
at has been the fundamental prin-
ciple of American policy from the time
of Washington to avoid all interming-
ling in intrigues and schemes and dis
sensions in the alliances and in the
wars of the Old World Very possibly
Washington, could he have lived to see
the present situation, would have disre-
garded his own doctrine in the inter
ests not only Of the world at large, but
of the future security of America it.