Evening star., 1919-04-29
EUR OPE PLACES GREAT TRUST
IN LEAGUE AND u. S. APPROVAL
Believes People of America Will Not
Renounce Machinery Created for
Realization of World Ideals.

spread and spread until it enveloped
America. too.
1t is not American to do this; that
is why it will not be done. Let
short sighted skeptics or cynics OF
, various countries on this side of the
Atlantic have their little day when
they think that the peace of the fu-
ture and every dream of human
brotherhood have, perished together
In the United States Senate. They
have to learn something about
America yet.
only when it becomes a question as
to whether the Senate shall repudiate
the signature of the President of the
United States in the peace treaty will
the real issue arise. Between now
and then much will happen on both
sides of the Atlantic. President Will
sons opponents for the most part are
not against the league of nations in
principle. When the final vote of the
Senate means killing or abolishing
the league. when the issue is naked,
| the verdict perhaps irrevocable. we
shall see.
IF betting on it were compulsory,
we would put all our money on Amer
lean idealism and the forward spirit
of the United States"
View of Lord Robert Cecil.
In. commenting upon the burden that
rests upon the United States, Lord
Robert Cecil who co-operated with
President Wilson and others in draft
ing the league of nations, said:
THE world has left the United
States in position of enormous pow
er: In soma respects comparable to
the position occupied by England aft
er the Napoleonic wars of 1s15-in
some respects even more powerful
with that gigantic power comes re-
sponsibility-a responsibility, If may
say so. to the world at large and to
herself. The peace of Europe and of
the world is not only of European in
terest; it is of American interest as
well. America cannot in these days
aHord to say that she disinterests her
self altogether from what goes on in
Europe without her being untrue to
her responsibilities to the world at
large and to herself as we'll"
Lord Northcliffes London Times de-
clares along the same line:
The powers of the conference are
concerned with Mr.. Wilson as Presi-
dent of the United States and with the
American people. We are anxious tha t
the United States should complete the
work that they began in entering this
war, and while we are grateful for
idS ing GOWN the fpflnelpieS OIL the set
t1eme1t it wuufu be painful anti
climax if America, after formulating
them. should promptly disown all re-
sponsibility for their execution. We
refuse to believe that one party in the
United States seriously contemplates
lame TERMINATION OF the great part
played by America in the war or to
hitch the high hopes for the future
that America from the start has en-
couraged us to form to the fortunes of
one political party. 1t is the Ameri-
can people who will decide this great
issue, and our ease is so good and their
instinct so generous that we are GER
tain we shall not be disappointed. We
are confident that the American peo-
pie will rise to the height of their
own argument and of their great ira
dition of freedom."s
These are but isolated views of
British people. Personally / have en-
countered the same confidence. the
same enunciation of hopes for Ameri-
cas- unself1sh cooperation and guild
ance in the affairs Of the world among
the most lofty and the, most lowly Of
people throughout Italy, Belgium,
England and France.
Their trust Is one in US. Their faith
is supreme.