The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
BIND U. S.-ENGLISH
TIES, PAPER URGES
London "Times" Calls Will.
sons Visit One Of Greatest
Events in History.
SHOWS NEED OF UNITY
League of Nations Plan
Founded on Peace, Wins
Praise.
Special Gable Despatch to THE Sun from the
London Times Service.

Special Gable Despatch to THE Sun from the
London Times Service.
Copyright. 1918; all rights reserved.
LONDON, Dec. ga Times editorial
on Wilson's visit appears on Tuesday
because when next the Times appears
1t will be late, and better hospitality
two days in advance than one day be-
hind"
The editorial says: Wilson's ar
rival Is by common consent one Of the
greatest events in our own and Amer
lean history. Wilson is the first Amer
lean President who has visited us, and
though America has always sent one
OF her best to be Ambassador here, an
Ambassador after all always is the
servant OF the Government. President
Wilson is a servant to none but the
American people and is coming to see
us to talk things over with TeaderI Of
politics. He bears the mandate Of d.
rector Immediately greater than any
predecessor.
Most Critical Period.
Moreover he comes at one Of the
most critical periods in our history.
We have won the war. thanks in no
small measure to American assistance
and price and peace will not be won
either in this country or the world
unless II IL a peace based on a warm
active friendship between the great
English speaking nations. II there
be Englishmen who does not realize
how much this issue transcends ali
others and how vital our friendship
with the United States Is to- all the
causes we have at heart, we will have
patience with them, as since our
statesmen. American and British
have the power to remake the destinies
Of the English speaking people and
remould them for the future as they
might have been moulded II the tive
nations\ had parted. not in anger. but
in amity and good fellowship. That
is the biggest issue in our politics, for
our two nations and for the rest OF
the world.
"Supposing one had to define in q
single sentence the work which has &c
bedone at the Paris conference. should
We not say It was to clothes the ideas
our common humanity informs Is law
We are attempting to turn the aspira-
lions OF international Jurisprudence
into q genuine operative international
law. Except there is active good fell
lowship between England and Amer
lea the thing simply cannot be done
A league Of nations is the ideael OF
the English speaking peoples, and
their concurrence is necessary II It is
to become an operative reality. A
league OF nations is only another form
Of the conception a cncert Powers
about which so typical an English
statesman as Gladstone used to wax
eloquent
Concert of Powers.
THE concert Of powers broke down
because it was a concert OF an ambi-
tious but not definite political oonsti.
tuition. The proposed League of Ma.
lions is old concert endowed for the
first time with a conscience with 6
constitutional programme, with the
rules laid down by law backed up by
physical force definitely working fol
ends. not of ambition, but for happi
ness and progress among the peoples
II President Wilson has a great popu.
lar following In Europe II is because
he has expressed this ideal future fol
international relations with the great
est ciearness and force.
The best law in the world is apt t.
become a dead letter without enforce.
ment by a league of nations, however
powerful the moral sanction behind It
Wen still beace men on both land ant
sea. So far as there Is a difference Of
opinion between this country ant
America on what is called the freedom
OF the seas. 1t is due mainly to oul
anxiety, living as we do on an island
go much nearer than the United State!
to the danger zone. to make sure thai
the future law of the sea Is backed b.
sufficient force"