The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-12-23
AMERICA MUST
not RELAPSE
TO ISOLATION
URGE ENGLISH
Peace Conference Itself Will
be League of Nations, Says
Viscount Crey-U. S. Will
Be Needed.
CHEER WILSON'S VISIT
(By Associated Press)

|
LONDON, Dec. 23.-Viscount Grey.
former secretary Of state for foreign
affairs, has written. at the request Of
the research committee OF the league
| of nations union, an Introductory note
to a pamphlet entitled, THE Peace
Conference and After" After urging
the great opportunity afforded by the
peace conference for taking a practi-
cal step in the direction of forming
league of nations, Viscount Grey
says:
1T is not necessary for the peace
conference to create a league of ma
tions. The conference will initself
be vital beginning of such league.
All that is absolutely necessary is
| that it should not commit suicide, but
keep itself alive by adjourning and
leaving permanent organization in
| stead of dissolving itself and destroy
ing its machinery.
This is not all that is desirable.
but 1t Is all that Is essential. A be-
ginning that has in it vitality and pow
er of growth is better than a more
complete and more attractive creation
that has no life. One is a living theing
the other is piece of furniture.
Must Help Keep Peace.
Two more points l would especially
commend to careful and sympathetic
attention. One is the possibility CT
applying the principle of trusteeship
to those vast tracts, especially Africa,
| where no independent national govern
ment of the native inhabitants can be
,, formed. The other is emphasis on the
earnest advocacy of the part to be
taken bu the United States in helping
to give effect to this principle of trus-
teeship and in the council of the
world. Without the United States any
council or league of nations will soon
be, little better than the old concert
OF Europe which was spoiled invari-
ably by intrigues within it and split
into opposing groups.
1T has required the united efforts
of the allies and the United States to
win the war Of right against wrong
and to make peace. 1t will need the
upnited and continupous, although
peaceful action of all of them to main
tain peace.
1T would be as fatal to the future
of the world for the United States to
relapse into the old idea of strict iso-
lation, as it would be for any power
to revive the German policy of sepa-
rate conquest and domination. 1t is.
l believe, in this spirit and for this
purpose that the people of this coun-
| try desire close and cordial relations
| with the United States. We think the
| people of the United States are con-
| scious of the great and beneficial in
| fluence they exercised on the history
of the world by the part they took
in this war. We cannot believe that
| they will let this influence abate or
die
For World Conservation.
Commenting upon the visit of Presi-
dent Wilson to England, the Daily
Mail says:
I'VE shall give him of our best. 1t
| is with that desire that our people
have learned with especial satisfaction
that the fullest panoply of honor will
be spread to welcome SO notable a
guest. Mr.. Wilson is not coming here
for politics. His visit is for interna-
tional conservation and is to vis!bly
| cement the two English-speaking peo-
pies cradles in whose hands reposes
the new born peace Of the world.
1--WE behold a Christmas of joy and
a moment unexampled in the rugged
history of our race. 1t is the peace
Christmas. Many Of our soldiers are
| back again and our tortured prisoners
are coming home. Gaety at last is
released from bonds of anxiety and
privation and glows like fire in our
hearts, At this season of ALL the
presidents visit is heartening augury
for the world at peace, since it founds
upon rock the solid amity and united
of hn Dr;f; ;.h
democracies"
Few Greater Events.
There are few incidents which can
rival the presidents visit to our capi-
tal," says the Daily Telegraph. Lon.
| greet the man who is at the head of
a vast nation and is himself a fore
most citizen Of the world They rec
ognize in his visit a token of won
derful future and sign and seal of
| that great alliance of the Anglo-Saxon
peoples on both sides of the Atlantic
| which means SO much for the happi-
ness and tranquility of mankind. They
know how valuable will be his advice
and counsel in the future parliament of
peace, for he brings to the discussions
that clarity of judgment and fresh
ness of vision which are so helpful in
an emergency like that with which we
are confronted.
If he does not himself sit at the
| table, for he is not an ambassador.
delegates of the various powers will
have had the advantage OF frequent
consultations with him. President
Wilson's visit marks great turning
point in the history of international
politics and new link binding the
western hemisphere with eastern com
munities Of interest"