Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-10
World Relations Broken.

them.
World Relations Broken.
In all quarters of the world old
established relationships had been
disturbed or broken and affairs
were at loose ends, needing to be
mended or united again, but could
not be made what they were be-
fore. They had to be set right by
applying some uniform principle of
justice or enlightened expediency.
And they could not be adjusted by
merely prescribing in a treaty
what should be done. New states
were to be set up which could not
hope to live through their first
period of weakness without as
sured support blythe great nations
that had consented to their crea-
ton and won for them their indie
pendence. Ill governed colonies
could not be put irp the hands of
governments which were to act as
trustees for their people and not as
their masters if there was to be
no common authority among the
nations to which they we're to be
responsible in the execution of
their trust. Future international
conventions with regard to the
control of waterways, with>regard
to Illicit traffic of many kinds. in
arms or in deadly drugs, or with
Il
varying international administra-
tive arrangements could not be
assured if the treaty were to pro-
vide no permanent common inter-
national agency. If its execution in
such matters was to be left to the
slow and uncertain processes OF
cooperation by ordinary methods
of negotiation.
As to Saar Basin.
II the peace conference itself was
to be the end of cooperative author
ity and common counsel among the
governments to which the world was
looking to enforce justice and give
pledges Of an enduring settlement.
regions like the Saar basin could
not be put under a temporary admin
istrative regime which did not in
volve a transfer of political souer-
eighty and which contemplated q
final determination Of its political
connections by popular vote to be
taken at a distant date; no free city
like Danzig could be created which
was, under elaborate international
guarantees, to accept exceptional OBJ
legations with regard to the use Of
it's port and exceptional relations with
a state Of which it was not to
form a part; properly safeguarded
plebiscites could not be provided for
where populations were at some
future date to make choice what
no certain and uniform method Of
arbitration could be secured for the
settlement Of anticipated difficulties
of final decision with regard to many
matters dealt with in the treaty it.
self; the long-continued supervision
Of the task Of reparation which Ger
many was to undertake to complete
within the next generation might en-
tirely break down; the reconsidera-
ton and revision Of administrative
arrangements and restrictions which
the treaty prescribed but which it
was recognized might not prove Of
lasting advantage or entirely fair II
too long enforced would be imprac-
ticable.
Promises to Labor.
The promises governments were
making to one another about the
way in which labor was to be
dealt with, by law not only, but
in fact as we'll, would remain .
mere humane thesis il there was
to be no common tribunal Of opin-
ion and judgment to which liberal
statesmen could resort for the in
fuences which alone might secure
their redemption. A league OF FREQ
nations had become q practical ne
cessity. Examine the treaty Of
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where throughout its manifold
provisions its trainers have felt
obliged to turn to the League Of
Nations as an indispensable instru-
mentality for the maintenance Of
the new order it has been their
purpose to set up in the world
the world Of civilized men.
That there should be q league
of nations to steady the counsels
and maintain the peaceful UNDER
standings Of the world. to make,
not treaties alone, but the accept
ed principles of international Law
as well, the actual rule Of conduct
among the governments of the
world, had been one Of the agree
ments accepted from the first az
the basis of peace with the central
powers. The statesmen of all the
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