The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-15
ANOTHER WAR WOULD DESTROY
 CIVILIZATION
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tions and among the greatest minds of our time could develop They were small minds, he urged, who would raise technical objections to il now, on the ground that it would cause us to surrender sovereignty He pointed out that there were two years of debate and running political battles before the Constitution of the the same objections were urged against 1t as are being urged against the League of Nations now.
 Mr Coudert, after thanking the Bar Association and the friends he has made in Juneau for the courte sies they had shown him, referring ! to the things The Empire, which he characterized as a splendid product of modern journalism, had said about him, launched into the subject that had been assigned to him-the League of Nations.
 With the eloquence of trained or ator, Mr Coudert presented word pictures of the war; it's horrors, the causes behind it, the progress of the conflict, the history of the organiza tion of the forces which finally ended it, with a vividness born of actua, contact with 1t.
 He said that before July, 1914, the great majority of the people of thu world had believed another great European war would be impossible 1 He said that this had been the gen eral opinion in France and that year before the conflict actually started, the French Chamber of Dep uties passed the three-year-law, re quiring three years of compulsory military service instead of two, by only narrow margin. He says this law, which added 250,000 men to the covering army of France, saved the day by holding the German until the forces which won the Bat tie of the Marne could be organized
 The state of the public mind a that time, the speaker declared showed how lacking of substance is sense of security under conditions that existed before the late war.
 In showing the need for something that will make for the permanent peace of the world, MT. Coudert graphically portrayed the frightful. ness of the war; the agony and tor ture of France and Belgium, the peril of the world and civilization. He | .lo bot on conflict the French soldiers were ready to do and die because thy were making war against war As uuith, the great British statesman had voiced the sentiment of his coun- try when, admitting the terrible cost of conflict, he said the war would : be justified by the results. America had entered the war because years of German atrocity finally convinced her people that freedom and democ- racy were the issues.
 All this terrible struggle would have been in vain. the speaker de- lclared. unless something had come out of it that would make 1t impossible to have another war.
 The need for an organization such as the League of Nations to consider and present the issues to the world in cases of international dispute was shown by the recital of history to show that there would have been nc war in 1914 If there could have been careful consideration of matters in controversy In democracies gov ernment waits on public opinion. the speaker urged. and to move that re
 quires time. He declared that Ger thrown her armies over the Belgian border and into Franco if she had known that 1t meant war with Grea Britain, her great sea power and tre mendous resources. But Englart was not in a position to announce or August or before. and not unti August 4, that she would cast hel . lot with that of France. That wa. because, said he, that Sir Edwart Grey, British Foreign Minister. ant Premier Asquith felt that England
 would have to wait until British npin | ion crystalized, or England would g: into the war a divided people ant
 not capable of doing her best fo humanity. That specialization dit | not take place until the German host | crossed the border into Belgium an' | violated her solemn treaty witl | Great Britain to respect the neu trality of that country.
 | He said 1t was certain that Ger | many would not have made war 1
 she had known that she would hav'
 had to meet the United States an' Italy as well as Great Britain an, France and Russia and all the little