Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
WILSON HALLS BELGIUM
AS WORLD INSPIRATION
League Of Right" Formed When Heroic Nation
Was Invaded, President Tells Chamber OF
Deputies at Brussels

| of this war. II was league of rights.
and no thoughtful statesman. who let
his thought run into the future, could
wish for moment to slnckcn those
bonds. His first thought would he to
strengthen them and to pcrpetuatc this
combination of the great, governments
of the world for the maintenance OF
justice.
League Child Of War
"Thr league of nations is tho child
Of this great war, for it is the expression
of those permanent resolutions which
grew out of the temporary necessities OF
this great struggle. anG any nation
which declines to adhere to this cove
nant deliberately turns away from the
most telling appeal that has ever been
made to it's conscience aud to its man
hood
"The nation that wishes TO use the
league of nations for its convenience,
and not for the service, Of the rest Of
the world. deliberately chooses to turn
back to those bad days Of selfish con-
test, when every nation thought first
and always of itself, and not OF its
cighbOrs-thought OF its rights and
forgot its duties-thOught of its power
and overlooked its responsibility.
Those bad days. | hope, arc gone,
and the great moral power backed, II
need be. by the great physical power
! of the civilized nations Of the world.
will now stand firm for the maintenance
Of the fin" partnership which we have
thus inaugurated.
"It cannot be otherwise. Perhaps
| the conscience of some Chancclercs
was asleep. and the outrage of Ger
| many awakened il. You cannot see
| one great nation violate every principle
| of right without beginning to know
what the principles of right are and to
| love them. to dcspisc those who violate
| them and to form the firm resolve that
| such a violation shall now be pun
ished and in the future be """ventcd.
Embassy Is Advocated
"Thcse are the feelings with which
IT have come to Belgium, and it has
! been my thought to propose to the
Congress of the United States, as q
recognition and as welcome OF Bel
| GUM into her new status of complete
independence, to raise the mission 0i
the United States Of America to Bel.
GUM to the rank of an embassy, and
send an ambassador. This is the rank
which Belgium enjoys In our esteem
! Why should she not enjoy it in form
! anu III lh't
$50 gentlemen, we turn to the future
Mr.. Hymans has spoken in true terms
OF the necessities that lie ahead of Bel
gium and of many another nation that
! has come through this great war witt
suffering and loss. We have shown Bel
gium. in the forms which he has beer
| generous enough to recite, our friend
| shin in the past. 1t is now our dut!
! to organize our friendship along new
! lines.
THE Belgian people and the Belgian
| leaders need only the tools to restore
their life. Their thoughts are mo-
crushed; their purposes are not OBJ
scured. Their plans are complete anC
their knowledge of what is involved il
industrial revival is complete.
What their friends must do is Il
see that Belgium gets the necessar!
priority with regard to obtaining raw
materials, the necessary priority in OBJ
tanning the means to restore the machin
ery by which she can use these raw
materials, and the credit by which sh
! can bridge over the years which it will
be necessary for her to wait to bcgil
again.
These are not so much tasks fo
governments as they are tasks fO
thoughtful business men and financier
and those who are producers in othe
countries. 1t is a question of shippin,
also. But the shipping of the worI
will be relieved of its burdens of troop
in a comparatively near future an
there will be new bottoms in which t
carry the cargoes, and the cargo.c
ought readily impel the master of tn
ship to steer for Belgian ports.
Solution at Hand
II believe, after having consultc
many times with my very competent ad