Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22
LEAGUE FOR PEACE
DECLARED FUTILE
James M. Beck Asserts Al
lance of Nations Would
: End Only in Dispute.
ACADEMY ENDS SESSIONS

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. April 21.-James
NJ Beck, former assistant attorney
general of the United States. address
ing the closing session tonight of the
american Academy of Political and
Social Science, declared that any
league TO enforce peace is futile, be-
cause any such alliance of nations
sooner or later would tend to break
up into groups and the result would
be worse than a dispute solely be-
tween two nations.
= The general topic of tonights ses-
seion. presided over by United States
Senator John Sharp Williams of Mis-
sissippi. was Americas participation
in a league for the maintenance of a
Just and durable peace"
ANY suggestion of peace is founded
more or less on the theory of the sur
yival of the fittest." Mr.. Beck said:
peace of the world must be founded
on justice and often justice is enforced
by force
: Mr.. Beck said there could never be
peace in the world whee there was. in
peace in the world where there was in
nor victor will feel thoroughly salts
fed. he said.
Terms q. S. Stand Academic.
Quoting statistics to show that only
one out of every 10000 men militarily
affected in the United States had Of
Tered his services to the country since
President Wilson's request of Congress
to declare the existence of a state of
war, Mr. Beck termed as academic
America's interest in the worlds great
est war.
America is ready to march through
Hades If she can assist in permanent
peace founded on right and justice. in
the opinion of Oscar 5. Straus, chair
man of the public service commission
New York, speaking at today's session
The general topics were The Prob
lens of a Durable Peace" and The
Rights of Small Nations"
= I'VE are confronted with two condi-
,tions, Utopia and Hades," said Mr..
STRAUSS. "and since the war we have
learned that there is way to Utopia
Through Hades."
:. Oswald G. Willard. publisher of the
New York Evening Post. voiced plea
for the need of detailed declaration
of American policy toward Haiti and
seanto Domingo.
THE question before u.s.. he said.
srfs whether we are really going to set
ourselves down to the task OF govern
ing well. according to the highest
American tradition. these peoples who
have no desire whatever to be governed
by us and prefer to be governed poorly
by themselves, so long as they may
have self-government and independence
rather than be governed by outsiders
whose culture and point of view in
avery fundamental thing are so alien"
!" The Balkan Problem.
No solution under current conception
Of international relations can bring
permanent peace over the disposition Of
Constantinople. its waterways and the
Balkan rail routes. according to Talcott
Williams, Columbia University.
!. 'Tf the Teutonic league carried out the
chief purpose of this war and secured
control Of these straits and ways Russia
would bide its time" he said. IF Russia
wins Constantinople the Teutonic league
and the Balkans will bide their time. Con-
Siict must appear again and again over
his issue unless federated control. in
which all these lands share. is estab-
lIshed."
z Mr. Williams declared that in interna-
donal democracy lies the peace OF the
all