South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-28

everyday life, same IL was az the peace tables.
II is really the subconscious rather han the con-
scious mind that harbors the best that a man has
in him. Subconsciousy he is honest with him
SELF but his conscious mind he displays for show,
and bellies ofttimes his own conscience, to keep
inside what seems to him the popular venj to win
applause, or accomplish some selfish purpose.
Europe throughout all the years of its present.
recent-politicaI divisions has played the game
of "ifs" and lands" expecting this, anticipating
that, contemplating all sorts OF dne emergencies,
everybody suspicious of each other, at the Con-
gress of Vienna, the Council of Berlin, the Con-
clave of London even at the conferences at The
Hague, and has quite as consistently gotten exact
ly what was expected, anticipated contemplated,
and so assiduously guarded against.
Accordingly it was easy for the president to
prove quite concluSively that the European du-
plicty, suspicion, and other such inhdelities had
failed, eliminating IN exactly the that the
peace conference had met to settle-and why
copy the old mistakes, the old blmders, or, if you
please the old inhumanites?
\ Nd Europe finally saw the point even though
pro-foreigniSIl IN America Is still blind to 1t.
No wonder Europe stands abashed now at a con-
try trying so hard to repudate so benihcent Cos
pei; so insensible to such truths, promulgated by
its own leadership!
Of course, it wasn't all easy sailing for the
president and his colleagues neither did they al
ways agree. He did not always get all that he
wanted and he sometimes got more than he want
ed. He always took, however, the most that he
could get, but never losing sight of the one funda-
mental fact that it to be a peace of conn
dence, not of suspicion; that IT was useless to pro-
mitigate set of peace understandings, expecting
to maintain world harmony, when at the very
foundation of those Understandings was net
work of secret intrigues and pwposeful misunder-
standings.
The cases of Fme and Shantung are IN point.
The conditions were the same; only different.
Both were claimed under secret ntrigues entered
into with France and England at the convention
Of London Shantumg was left to Japan on her
honor pedng the ful6llment of certain obligations
and Fiwne withheld from Italy due to certain
obligations due the Jugo-Slavs-pending their
fulhllment by Italy.
In the case of Shantmg the honor of Japan is
at stake and IN that of Fiune IL Is the honor of
the League of Nations and similarly throughout,
the Paris treaty and League covenant follow the
patent truth that it is folly to anticipate harmony
as the outgrowth of injustice, or promote freedom
and comfy by enShackHng people with distrust
and slavery.
You know how you feel about it when you dis
cover that some deceiver has put something over
ON YOU while pretending the opposite. You pro-
coed to get even. You want to fight, or if that Is
inexpedent-you are mprepared,-yOu Try to
make UP for it some other way.
Criss-cross secret diplomacy; mdeThanded
cunning, damnable intrigue, sufficient for the
day." well, that Is what drove Germany mad
when she could longer keep UP the pace
could no longer get by with her part In it,-and
made of her the international bandit that she be-
came. Germany thought she was prepsred-and
thereupon the entente allies called In Italy and
Japan and INDUCED some more cunning
HIS Is to be changed. The cards are to be
i laid on the table hencefoTth- international
questions are going to be debated IN interna-
6onal forum The world Is going to know what
is going on. Confidence is going to take the place
of suspicion-becaBe there Is to be an end to
that secrecy upon which suspicion thrives.
And question once debated, and unanimous
conclusion reached the whole world Is gong 10
take hand IN ito enforce the decree. Scarcely
anyone will want to go up against the whole
world Even Germany never would have done II
could she have foreseen the league OF nations
which finally rose against her.
The League is the worlds salvation, greater
deterrent than war itself, indispensable to the
maintenance of those confidential relations which
the new irlternatonalism demandS-a confidence
based upon public knowledge, publicity, and ex-
posuue of every attempt to evade it.
Which means a new state of international mind
and that Is enough; a new trend of international
thought,-and after all that IS about all that Is
necessary.
1t is just as easy to be honest Is to be dishon-
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