The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-06
WILL THE LEAGUE
 OF NATIONS FAIL 9 LORD ROBE


mense power that the League will simultaneously apply against it.
 weapon is the immediate and universal boycott and blockade which the Covenant ordains against aggressors, and in which the the rest of the world will take part.
 The experience of war has taught most governments to realize clearly than the pub lie does what overwhelming powerful it is and l have the greatest confidence in it's restraining force.
 In all this have assumed that the League O Nations will shortly include every civilized State This believe to be essential condition of success There certain difficulties is true, in the way of immediately admitting late enc mics, and Germany in particular. But we must not allow resentment to blind expedien- 
 Admission League is from one point of view privilege; and from another it is The of the can never be safe while any powerful State States remain the outside. So long that affairs continues it will be threatened with the danger of being than alliance.
 While there is little reason to fear though caused by the criminal a m State, there is danger which is serious, more subtle than this I mean the danger League of Nations should perish of neglect; lest the should forget the lesson it has so many tears. and lose the impulse O international cooperation which has brought it thus far along the road.
 Much in constitution League guard against this danger The Governments sgnatory thereto bind themselves O work actively together in many important spheres: are amongst others conditions of labor;s the white international transit questions; ton disease.
 The duties imposed upon by the Treaty Peace will also serve in some degree to keep the League before the of the world, and to lessen the danger that it may be murdered by the selfish apathy Of the governments and by the forgetfull- of private citizens.
 League Nations is a government of change citizenship, it is the expression of the feeling that has spread like wildfre the world in these last that citizen duty to kind opposed to but supplementary to the duty he to his own country.
 If, danger is over, 1nSpT lat die, what is the alternative?
 of will begin again and the old poison of secrecy and intrigue will begin work afresh.
 We be walking helpless hopeless the brink of the precipce even more terrible than which have narrowly escaped. And. the decsion-I it agairs-rests with the pie with the Governments
 Only the finn resolve of the and women who O the ordinary work of the world can breathe the Covenant of Paris a living soul
 meyer happen again was the deter 1nination often unspoken, but often, openly expressed of the who fought and won the war Their consolation facing death the belief that in doing they bringing broadcast an of it.
 If we can keep alive the spirit which the war and created the League I believe that between peoples will become forever unthink able will have been fulfilled And if be question that humanly speaking will destroy European civil ization.
 That is the choice before The League of Nations or Chaos Once that is realized one ask: .ryVI League fail?"
 must think will succeed Let each of see that as far him or her lies it's success Is assured