The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-01
MUST RIGHT i. WRONGS OF THE
 SMALL PEOPLES
Balfour Lays Down Pre- liminary to Formation of
 League of Nations,
COMPLETE FREEDOM
 IS AN ESSENTIAL
Gives His Support to Ideas Outlined by President
 Wilson in Speech.

London, Monday, Sept. 30 - The wrongs of subordinated peoples must be righted and territories occupied by Germany, since the beginning of the war must have complete freedom before a league of nations can be pos sible and peace secured to the world, said Arthur J. Balfour, British For eign Secretary, at the Guild Hall to- day. He gave his support to the ideas outlined in President Wilson's recent speech in New York.
 "The full magnitude of all the issues before mankind is thoroughly realiz- 1 ed," said MT. Balfour. If we failed l in this crisis not merely to win the war, but to see that such wars do not recur, our task would be but half ac- complished.
 President Wilson's main theme was this: That if the world would make sure that it is going to have peace, it must come to some arrange ment by which indicators or would be malefactors are to be kept in or der by league of nations. The sec ond proposition was that if you are to carry out this great ideal the only time to do it effectually is the moment when peace itself is being forged by the labors of the victorious powers.
 "If you are going to render perma-
 nent German domination over Russia
 especially over western Russia and
 the small peoples along the Baltic if you refuse to redress the wrongs o1
 Poland; if the subordinated people:
 in the Austrian empire are to be lief under the heel of the German ant
 Magyar minorities; if the Balkan!
 again are to be the scene of blood!
 wars and the occasion of hostilitie . among their neighbors; if the Turl
 is to be allowed to resume his blood.
 sway over the territories torn iron
 him; if Italy is not to have restored
 to her and added to her those popu : lations which really make her indeed an Italy redeemed; if Greece is to b
 threatened, as in the past, by tn I demination of the Central Powers; n Serbia is not to be restored after al , her appalling sacrifices and gloriou
 gsllantry; if France is not to resum
 her full place in Western Europe an n if Belgium is not to be restored i Q full measure, if all these evils are nc q potentially to recur, then you mus = do something more than merely. ea V tablish a league of nations.
 f You must put these wrongs righ e before a league of nations can set t l. work. You must give it a clean slat 0 to work upon. Then and there onl e will your league of nations work.
 Therefore, in order to make 0 league of nations possible complet e unity is absolutely necessary. Gel n many can only be a member of ]. league of nations in the Internations -' system, a system recommended by n great country and all-embracin
 peace and that can never take plac IS until Germany, not merely has bee
 obliged to change her profession ( It faith, but until Germany finds herse 5: in. a position where all her dreams Iy world domination are torn to piece
 before her eyes and she is left powel t. ful, prosperous and wealthy, but I T. longer a tyrant who can use the n; to tions which she is in a position to il e. f1uence to serve her won dreams
 world empire. Therefore, I ask yc al to remember how far the financial e KS forts we now are calling upon you le make extend beyond any merely fna-
 cial operation