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SAYS WOMEN CAN
PREVENT ANOTHER
GREAT CONFLICT
Believes Woman Has Unob-
structed Vision Necessary
to Insure Peace Among
Nations,
BY WILLIAM L. MALLARAR
international News Service staff Cor.
respe pdentN

BY WILLIAM L. MALLABAR
international News Service staff Cor
LONDON, Tf sg s1mrbs woman .,
the world wifi Ii, permit another war
Inc women of the world see clearly
.he 1allacies and dangers of the present
li ilian MADE scheme of international re-
tiaiIn1oLs, and women, given the chance,
Il VIII avoid mans international mistakes
ouch is the sermon read to mankind
by Miss Maude Royden, assistant
preacher taa at the City Temple. London.
net, an Oxford university extension lee
turer an editor and leading worker for
.,asi L I'a cause OF equal suffrage and for the
Ieague of nations. AS such she has
leGIured extensively in America.
various members of the international
organization of women which has been
striving to make the league of nations
eI1ectlye have, during recent weeks,
charged that failure of the IMAM made
league to date has been almost wholly
due to man made" mistakes
Inc International News service asked
MISS Royden to clarity this issue, to
explain the reasons for the growing
dissatisfaction of thinking women with
the at least partial failure of the
worlds greatest international expert
ment.
The league of nations is being re-
pudiated by the very people whose one
hope IL mas Deen throughout the black
years of the war;" said Miss Royden
~ is safe to say that many people
retained their vanity and their faith
in the future of humanity during the
war because they believed that the
world would never allow such a horror
again, and that the one object of every
statesman would be to so organize in
ternational relations in the future as
to remove forever the reproach of our
modern civilization-that 1t had no other
of nCt Tri
tive and savage tribe for settling its
intertribal disputes. To these same peo-
pie even the peace of Versaies-un-
workable and unjust as they perceived
many of its clauses to be-stil con-
tanned the promise of better things in
that 1T enshrined the covenant of the
league of nations.
Hope was still possible.
The statesmen of Europe are appar-
emily incapable Of working any machn-
cry except on the old lines. They do
not seem-with very few excetions-
to have the smallest idea what people
mean when they talk of new world,
1T does not surprise them that after
the long comradeship in arms of France,
England and Italy-and shorter but
no less glorious one with America-the
great countries should now be nursing
a growing jealousy and suspicion of one
another.
'We-the people in the street-imag
ined that the brotherhood of the nations
would be realized after the war. Our
governors, on the contrary, see all Eu-
rope split up into little armed camps
or big armed camps-hating each other,
fearing each other, rearing to fight each
other, spending their last farthing on
arms and explosives, while their chill
dren die of starvation, and philanthropy
lists strive to prolong their feeble ex-
istence by huge (but still inadequate)
doles of food and money.
And it seems that this is not at all
a surprising result, or an insufficient
reward for the agonizing suffering of
the war. They make no excuses, they
are not ashamed, they are not sur
prised.
THE allied soldiers won for US the
most complete victory that ever was
won for any, cause by any armles-and
this victory has been used to make Eu-
rope worse hell OF misery than we
dreamed of before it took place. If any
one complains it is because they are
unreasonable.
Some of US are beginning to recall
the dictum of wellington that the next
worst thing to defeat is victory
II am persuaded that someone has
got to get into this thing-this shadow
that we call the league of nations
who has not been trained in the old
ways. Not necessarily someone better,
someone wiser or someone stronger;
Just someone who has not trampled his
rut so deep that he can see over the
top of 1t.
''Women, in short.
There is just one thing to be said
for women in this matter, and that is
that they have none of the traditions
which make it difficult for men to see
, sense.
q u remember reading a book on the
wav business was carried on in the
British houses of parliament AFTER
describing it's merits and defects, us
ridiculous conventions, its pompous
NIL
safe to say not only that this Is to be
carried on but that it is the only pos
chile way Well, well!
"And so men seriously assure you
more, they seriously believe-that 1t IS
the only possibly way to conduct mat
ters in which we are all concerned IN
the profoundest secrecy so as TO create
the maximum of suspicion and unsetue-
ment even when all is well. They begIn
at the wrong end, and draw new IRON
tiers for military purposes, regretting
that alas, the integrity OF nations anu
the principle of self differentiation must
be violated to do so. So, ILL,
women unacCustomed to deal win
children both good and bad, would not,
I thing, have thought of a plan SO IN
renious as to give one child what pc
longed to another and then proV5ue
them with weapons because justice oe-
manded that they should be alloWeo ~
defend themselves from the rage anu
fear thew would certainly feel I'll,
"Today we are violating nationality
everywhere and point out reproachlully
that the world being what 1t is, we
must be allowed our military, trohtlerS
and our crushing armaments!
"Why not make the world dlllerentt
7 suggest that women would nrlhs . new
minds to this job, and believe they
First, that it is beginning at ths
wrong end to create causes of war, ana
then saw we really must be prepared
for war because it is sure to come. +,
second, that terrific victory IN IN
the war to end war hasn't Justl1leo
itself when it leaves the children nun
rrier and the nations more heaVhy
al Third, that the principle of sell
determination isn't satisfactorily YIN
di Tse when 1t is denied to everyone eryytnn
hut the subjects of German aggression,
"Fourth, that a league OF nations Us
which leaves out half the "orld Is 80
HE the "a balance of power that IL
wasn't worth spending 8,OOO'Ooo OF lives
0i' Fifth. that there has got to be
reai league of nations or another war
is inevitable. =, .,,o,,,o, 10 tho world
are not going to permit another war
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