Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-04
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS--.
WHAT 1T REALLY MEANS
By JOSIAH II. REED.

| armament and maintain it's reduction g.?
How are you going to regulate the
question of how much armament a ma =
tlon shall have? OF course, every
body must concede that the armament
we are are especially interested in is
Germany's armament, and we are go
ing 10 sec to it that that is quite as
low as domestic safety shall require
Ito use that expression.
Now, are we just going to leave
that in the treaty and make no pro-
vision for enforcing that requirement
or keeping that requirement maintain
ed and fulfiled?s Is that the way we
are going to deal with Germany, as
Stunning that Germany unites with Ger
man Austria and makes n very consid-
cradle power, retaining her military
spirit, if7she does; or are we going to
create an agency that shall see to it
that this. is an effective covenant?
You have got to divide the Balk-
ans. You know what experience has
been With the Balkans. To fix those
boundaries and expect peaceful con-
dition and absence of jealousy and
friction is like tying four cats togeth-
or and leaving them alone. 1t is not
possible. These are the governments
that we are to create. We have said
so in our fourteen points, and the
other nations have acquiesced to that
extent.
Now | Just want to ask the simple
question, that it seems to me can be
answered with mathematical accuracy
III we create those governments and
leave them alone and 90 away with
out organizing the league of nations
TO help them on as we helped Cuba,
nave we made for war or have we
made for peace? You carve them out
of the cd dominions, you create the
Jeal0usies, you crea e the resentments
with the old dopin'ons and it is not
possible to maintain those purposes
and carry them out unless you do have
a league of nations that shall remain
together with n police force of very
considerable size to see to it that these
children of ours-for that is what they
are-shall shiny on their own Sides
| haven't heard suggestion Of an
answer to that. You can't apply this
treaty, which must be as long as the
moral law, unless you have a court
authorized by your league of nations
to interpret it. You can't have these
nations get on in friendly way unless
YOU have committee of Cancellation
to reconcile the differences that can
not be settled on principles of law
You can't have conference of the
powers like this and establish all these
governments and all these rights of
access to the sea that we see In the
fourteen points and in other addresses
unless you have in the action of the
congress of nations new definitions of
international law and almost codifir |
cation of 1t, because you are going into
the question Of the seas and the free i
dom of the seas and all that that
means.
'In other words, this treaty is i'm
possible of execution--it is worth |
nothing but the paper it is written on |
unless you continue an arrangement
between the powers that in effect con-
stitutes a league of nations to enforce
peace of half the world, in middle
Europe, all eastern Europe, Asia Min
or and Africa. Having done that, the
step to the rest of the world is easy.
1t has only to introduce the same obli-
cations inter sese that you impose by
a treaty on the other half of the
world That Is what league of ma
tions is, and I dent see that the par
ties can any more escape Il than n