Arizona republican., 1919-02-16

against the will of the law of nations, but at the same time each state should be strong enough to contribute to the force that will enable the league of nations to impose it's will. There has been unanimity upon all these points.
 There are one or two upon which l wish particularly to insist, because they are connected with dangers that may be of special moment to some of us, dangers that may arise not equal for all.
 There are special dangers for coun- tries like France, Belgium, Serbia and the new states that are in the stage of formation in central Europe. It is necessary to give them special guaran- tees, and this has been recognized by the committee when it says that special account must be taken of the geo. graphical situation of and the mode of application to, of each state in the scale of armaments. Where the frontiers are more exposed, it must be possible to have stronger systems of defense and, possibly, also greater armaments.
 This is all right; but there is no doubt that it will put on the shoulders of the nations that happen to be in that difficult position. a special bur
 
 peaceful competition that is the life of the world.
 And here again two practical ques tlons must be put. To give all na- tons necessary security the principle Of the limitation of armaments must not only be executed, but executed very fast. It has been said and no one has said it more forcefully than President | NIlSnn-fh1t a war of material; that in such a war as the one we have just seen. and such as we hope never to see in the future what has triumphed has been science | turned into barbarism
 Control War Industries Now it is necessary for us to con ! trol the war industries all over the world. The nations who are the con tracting parties of the covenant, pledge themselves mutually to com municate to each other full informa ton about their armaments and their means of production. This is very good plan. with which I am particular ] ly satisfied.
 | At the same time I proposed all amendment which l thing I ought to mention ! thought it would be neces- sary to institute a permanent organi- zation for purposes of inspection, and | this amendment was not at the mo- ment embodied in the text. We have accepted the text as it is before you, and we now mention that amendment. l IL is because as the whole scheme is going to be discussed by the whole l world, II is better that all the points that have given occasion for important observations should be mentioned.
 Here is second point. Take a state that violates the international coven- ant. That state is believed to be in state of war against all the member.
 or the league who are supposed tC
 compel it 10 execute its obligations
 But war is not something that can pro-
 ceed at once, especially when the oues-
 ton is how to bring together forces
 belonging to states which are very
 different from each other. and may be
 at the four corners of the world. , Each nation will have to wait ir
 order to act until a certain procedure is gone through, and until for eacf particular nation vote has been taker by its parliament-and so on. This means time and delay. And supposing that there is on the part O. , the aggressor a will to precipitate { situation, then we must provide fo the possibility. For this purpose. i would be desirable to have all tn, means of resistance studied. and con
 certed action prepared before the oc casion arises. This would be the bes check against any i'll design. If the would-be aggressor know
 that resistance is fully prepared agains any action such as he contemplates
 then he will be restrained. Whereas on the other hand, he knows that n 2 such preparation exists and that sud : den action on his part would encoun . ter prepared and well thought -ou . resistance, perhaps he would not b ' restrained and it would he extreHel . dangerous.
 Should Have Means to Prevent
 IT you do not wish to see the ter Q rible ordeal through which the worl II has passed renewed in the future. V Y ought to have a permanent organ niza n tion to prepare the military and nava
 means of execution and make ther % ready in case of emergency. e This has been objected to by som o of the members of the committee, be a cause it involved some difficult con 0 stitutional problems. This is why " = have agreed to the text without tha d amendment, but we think the prin