The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-07

fixed. Those of the Eastern are and not con
sidered final To assume that Germany and the new
Slavic states we'll those of the Balkan Peninsula
will acquesce in their status is out of the ques
ton virulent nationalsm which domination as II
the of Germany is to be suppressed by treaties
the moral opinions of mankind. unless backed BY
overwhelming force.
superstate advocates insist that here they are
practical They propose first disarmament. except fo
international police second the use OF the economic
boycott to bring rebeous nations to time, third the use
of force last resort.
But the has shown that modern war is Target,
matter OF material equipment and that there no dis
arming industrial nation that desires in Its heart
play the game The nation that is supplied will
the necessary machine tools into production
munitions almost overnight. A fleet of commercial air
planes be transformed into bombers. Poison
really in its earliest stages of development wher
the ended. The United States at once discontinued
promising Investigations that being conducted init
effective gases. Suppose Germany should go OF
with such Investigations The United States at worl
aerial bomb Suppose Germany should continue
and perfect an aerial bomb
Disarmament is simply dream. No matter what con
dons the Allies impose Germany could be ready to gh
again within decade II she so desired.
The economic boycott would be useful against the
smaller powers. The United States might well emplo.
against Mexico instance should the need arise
But economic boycott could be used against
full nation ready to make good its rights by force.
AS to the of international force. it is eviden
that anything beyond the force that the Entente
international vigilance committee. is ready te
is mpracticabe An all inclusive League of Nations
would include too peoples of different ideals
cur own for America to trust with handling inter
national police force.
OF course is said there are to be no more secret
arrangements within the league. Such suggestion
of the sort to make experienced their hair
There are secret arrangements in the United States
Senate Proceedings Of regular British cabinet meetings
must be reported to the sovereign So when ministers
do not wish to the sovereign they hold
instead Of meeting. There secret arrangements
wherever human beings get together to do business
Germany admitted to a League of Nations would
soon have German group ready support her designs
All eastern Europe is fertile field for such combinations
If powerful force put at the command of German
group, the mischief done might be ncalculable
The United States could not possibly afford to be
long to such league. 1t would be trap war;
strument fashioned for the of the INSCRIPTIONS.
Does that mean that no progress be made toward
lasting peace founded on justice? BY means.
Out of the stress of the last four years has come
real League of Nations founded association in com
mon cause This league is not but the
of men. 1t is an Entente, understanding and not
formal alliance 1t presents united front to the world
the champion of liberty justice because it plans no
Injustice and the safety of it's members bound up
seeing that they defended against such aggression
that of Germany.
Quite possibly, result of the association of the
war; the United States. Britain France might
to arbrae all disputes, has been suggested AS to
how far this could eventually extended time
alone would show. But the growth would gradual and
normal. and thus effective. AS H. H. Powers
that remarkable book 1.-THE Great Peace" "The world
will not be united motley assembage of dscordan
Wills divergent cultures and differing Developments all
oy the magic of an agreement and mechanical proceed
ure The union will come by gradual capitalization
around congenial center"
The world already has wonderful illustration of
the workings of such development the British en-
pre- which is really league of nations. with formal
bonds holding it together Indeed, of its citizens
General Smuts has remarked that the empire
shed by eason OF its loose organization and that
would not stand qualification into rigid So Can
ada refusing to bind itself help the mother
country sent out its men by the hundred thousand
the need came The empires bonds are in the hearts
Of its people.
In similar fashion might working arrangement
agreement about the powers that have been
brought together in the fight for freedom
ire trustees Tor peace In large share Of the
lay Incidentally their rusteeship will effective only
30 long as they are able to back it with force
In some such plan this lies hope of progress
io' IN formal league which seeks mechanically after
me RUSSIAN system to impose form the world for
which 1t is not ready Real American liberalism is on the
'de OF practical progress toward the peace of Justice
IS not on the side OF the dangerously impractical and the
visionary.
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