The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
DISARMAMENT NEXT, i
SAYS LLOYD GEORGE,
British Premier Warns That
League Is Useless II Force
Continues.
PEACE TO BE MODERATE
Many Prominent Men Express
Their Views on
,. Situation.

MANCHESTER, March 2s.--In a special
edition to-day on the question Of
League Of Nations, the Gudrdtun prints
articles from many prominent statesmen,
including Lord Haldane. former Secre-
tary OF State for War; viscount Bryce,
formerly Ambassador to the United
States; Albert Thomas. the French So
cialist leader. and Premier Lloyd George.
The Premier In his message says:
II am very glad to hear that the Man
chester Guardian is devoting a special
number to the League Of Nations. Moth
ing Is more important than that public
opinion should inform itself on this sub
tect. All our hopes of saving the world
from repetition Of the unfathomable
cataclysm of 1914 centre upon our work.
ing out practical means by which the ma
tons of the earth can conduct the COM
mon affairs of the world in friendly CO.
operation instead Of Jealous rivalry. The
League OF Nations represents the great.
est attempt which ever has been made to
substitute reason and justice for force
and intrigue as the governing principle
OF international relations.
League Must he Supported.
The principle OF League Of Nations
has been accepted. but the league will
prove fruitless II II Is to be no more than
a new piece Of international organization.
What matters Is that the units which
make UP this organization shall be in
spired by q real determination to work
In close harmony together for the better
ment and. liberty Of mankind. Nations
must not let themselves believe that In
having drawn UP paper constitution the
peace Of the world has been made secure
II they allow themselves to be misled by
this policy, they will only be reawakend
by new war. They have TO see that the
League of Nations 10 made an effective
instrument for the solution OF every in
ternational problem by their own read
mess to make sacrifices in its behalf
THE United States and Great Britain.
who have taken such a leading and hon.
orable part in promoting this benificent
scheme. must give a practical demonstra-
ton OF their belief in It.
Disarmament IL an essential condi-
ton OF success. We cannot expect the
nations ravaged by the war to trust
their desolated lands to the protection
Of the league II its advocates hesitate to
show any confidence themselves in its
guardianship. To set up a Society Of
peoples of the earth, while at the same
time increasing the armies and navies to
insure effective fratricide. Is to make
mockery OF a great IDEAL"
Where Opposition Is Greatest.
Commenting upon the opposition to
the League of Nations the Guordtan
says It La perhaps not realized by Cd.
ponents OF the scheme that the most for
midable opposition to II. the fundamental
opposition Of principle. comes precisely
from the quarter and the party to which
they themselves are most irreconcilab bly,
opposed.
"A League Of Nations" the Guardian
continues. based on national fellowship
and cooperation, may appear to them
an unattainable ideal which therefore is
to be attacked and derided as standing
in the way OF the more practical ar
rangements of frankly self-regardins
nationalism resting on force. But the
extremists OF the other camp object to
the league not because II allows too
little to the conception Of national In
terests or rights. but because Il recog-
nizes the nation at all. To the Boil
shevist the nation Is nothing. He has
no interest in It or regard for It, He
would abolish national boundaries alto
cooperation Of nations but in the destruc-
ton Of nationality; not in the preven-
ton OF war but IN making class war :
not In the freedom OF separate peoples
but in their subsection to a particular
social order.
That is perhaps the logical alterna-
tive to League of Nations such as is
now our purpose to establish. But It 10
disastrous alternative. Let us see that
the true ideal suffers nothing through
our default"
Views of viscount Bryce.
Viscount Bryce says:
TO leave things where they were
before the outbreak OF the war would
be the most deplorabis confession OF
human weakness and the most dismal
surrender OF human hopes that has
ever yet been seen. We must there
fore. earnestly desire that the Ameri-
can people, who have begun to realize
that they cannot stand aloof from the
dangers and trials OF the old world,
will support. President Wilson by CIV
ing their adhesion. Perhaps subject
TO certain amendments In details-to
the scheme which has been framed in
the interest Of all mankind. and which
can hardly succeed without the COOP
Grafton of their own great free and
powerful Republic"
Baron Buckmaster, formerly Lord
High Chancellor. comments upon the
speed with which the League generally
has been accepted, hs says.
Few Of those who took part in this
movement In it's earlier stages could
ever have believed that in so short a
space OF time 30 great n TRANSFORMED ton
OF opinion would have been obtained.
The stern logic Of events Is going to
drive those who are reluctant, along
with those who are willing. still fur
Their along the road.
Humanity In faced not merely with