The Winslow mail., 1920-02-20

United states may DO to make or mar
+ it. cannot now be the great instru-
ment Of peace and salvation that It
s would have been had it come. into eff
feet half year ago by the prompt
ratification Of the Treaty of Versailles
4 It is the lapse Of time, not Mr.. Lodges
+ reservations, that has taekn away its
first vital Importance. While the
/. Senator's wrangled, while insistence
upon changes and safeguards by some
sincere critics of the League and the
mental and moral pauperism Of some
extreme obstructionists have delayed
ratification, the very evils the cove
nant was intended to avert or cure
/ have sprung up and grown to proper
ltions Of menace and danger. The
devil is unclaimed and is wandering
up and down the face of the earth in
tent upon his old familiar purposes
and contriving new devices to plague
mankind.
Bolshevism rules Russia, practically
uncballenged More than 1OO,OO0,0O0
people are helpless in it's grip; it
threatens Poland; it looks eastward to
Afghanistan and India and has
srangelyparalyzed that strong arm
which Britain at all times in the past
has been prepared to defend her India
Empire; it's busy agents are impu-
IDENTIFY at work in all Western Europe
are visibly and boldly astir in the
UNITED States That is new danger
for civilization which might have been
averted had the League been eStab-
lished in time to cement into a per
manent union the Great Alliance
Now the ties that bound together the
nations that beat down Germany arc
sunderod. separatist tendencies are at
work, each is going its way, they have,
Host tho spirit for any fresh encounter,
even to repel dangerous enemies.
More than that, the nations have re
verted to the earlier policies, to the
old practices which, it was the hope OF
Mr.. Wilson and the statesmen with
whom he was associated at Versailles
would be abandoned made unneces-
sary, when the principles of the Lea
que guided and controlled information
al relations The arrangement now
in contemplation for Turkey spring
from the thought and purpose tha
shaped the Treaty of Berlin in 1878
Peace with honor, oBeaconsfield ano
Salisbury called it, although the worl0
T now sees that it was the fount and
origin OF the great war. We may seek
an earlier precedent, for the arrange
:, ment by which tho Turk is confirmed
in his hold upon European soil would
nave had the approval OF MettoTnich
!. at the Congress Of Vienna. And Italy.
whatever justification her demands
nag find IN history or racial prepon-
srance, set up the old pretext OF
strategic interest as the basis Of her
iDsistence upon control Of both sides
Of the Adriatic. Strategic interest
roctifcation CT frontiers, land hunger.
| al these things we know, they were
the very soul and substance of the
! balance of power idea to which the
principles Of the Lsague stand op
i posed as honest dealings stand op-
lposed to intrigue and spQilatian.
/ The League of Nations, therefore, if
ne Senate graciously permits it te
xist now that viscount Grey has
made it evident that our friends across
i he ocean must have it, on practically
ny terms, fer their own salvation
iii cone too late to accomplish more
han part. Of the inestimable bene-
IS hoped for from its establishment
Z. be geaI League OF Nations will come
SITTER the next war ANY intelligen
talan who sees and understands wha
3 -geing on in the world must fear
nat there will be another war; the
(. world may not be set right until il
eomes.. II it can be ayerted at all, ii
Fill be through the saving force that
emains in the League Of Nations af
ter the mishandling it has received at
Washington, after the delay that has
permitted the evils it was intended to
combat and stamp out to gain such
lheadway The reservations are q
natter in which the country and the
world have yisibly lost interest. The
structure OF the League remains-it is
on that that the nations can build UP
tha safeguards Of liberty, of peace
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