The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-04
GERMANY MUST bETAKEN INTO LEAGUE OF NATIONS
BY LORD CECIL

The Covenant of the League of Nations is now part of two draft treaties for 1t has inserted t the treaty as well as in he German treaty. We have right to assume that 1t viii
 It was desired by Elizabeth of England. by Henry ". of France, by Alexander of Russia, and by many statesmen and soveregns of the past To that it has been tried and failed is entirely true. Hitherto national sefishness has always been too strong to allow it to be tried It required the horrors of this to convince the peoples of this wrold that nations like men cannot live for them selves alone. easy us, those who have been most closely in touch with the reality of things to picture to ourselves how great that
 devastated districts of France and Belgium tell us something with their hundreds of miles of abominaton desolation. scarcely imagine what is meant by starvation in Russia, in Poland, and even in Germany The mas Armenia Syria a o
 It is said Governments have blundered; it is out of the wants of their fellow
 It be and if such criminals exist they deserve the severest punishment But in the last analysis the these evils is itself. Do not be blinded by poets and historians There been a conspiracy, yet broken down, dwell the glories of battle and cover it's horrors We may say to our critics, What do you propose?" We right What sugges- ton do you maker"
 The Bourbons Diplomacy. do complain of criticism; it shows c;Nee is alive. Some of the critics of the League of Nations are pure reactionaries and still live in the bons of diplomacy-they have learned nothing; they have forgotten nothing
 When I first went to Paris five months ago. there good many of such people, every nationality. But lately their number has de- , creased It is sometimes said that no Frenchmen
  plete mistake.
 I very much struck the other day talking to a lady who had been doing phanthropc work be- hind She Army, and she said she had asked ish, French, and American soldiers about the Lea que, and by far the keenest the French In deed, she said she had met French dier who not adherent to the No there still a reactionaries finger ing n the Chancelores Cabinets Europe. but among the masses of the people their number is insignificant.
 Another class o critics profess themselves fav- o idea of the League, but this remember the White of O Alice-cake other day-cake and cake yesterday, but never cake today.
 So with these Leaguers They point, not with skill, various provisions in the Covenant which they say will interfere with sovereignty, conversely will make the League quite ineffec- tive With breath they protest against the tempt to limit the armaments of independent tons, and with the next they point out that lit tie, anything. will result disarmament clauses of the Covenant They angrily demand that nation shall be over-ruled by the votes of other under the Covenant unanimity is required for a1- most every decision of importance they turn round and How useless then League of Nations will be-" There is plasing such men. The League tons. The Commission represents fourteen separate Powers contained the President of United States the President-elect of Brazil, the Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of France, the Prime Minister of Greece, and several other Min Ministers
 Ireland ably represented-at least, I hope so-by General Shuts and myself.
 do not contend that the Covenant Is perfect
 Miracles longer happen, and it would have been miracle if Covenant assented to by large number of independent powers had been free from faults of compromise. It is and it Is tended to be. finished product. We hope be- ieve that it will and adapt itslef the quirements of its functions. When 1t has been at ua<k- and vs have had experience of its practical