El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-29
League OF Nations
And Foreign Policy
LEAVES FROM AN
OVERSEAS NOTEBOOK

The Oversees Notebook" contains a
great variety Of material. including war
Observations and travel narrative In Eu-
rope. and general comrnentary- Il Is in
tended TO publish portion Of the Notes"
daily during several months. Publication
began October Z5. 1920.
During the period covered BY the notes
here reprinted the writer was IN Germany
with the American army Of occupation.
Sources OF Information Of the outside
world were necessarlly meaEer-
The Notes make no pratenoe at being
a discussion Of the league Of nations or OF
the treaty. They may have no value
whatevers but II they 40 possess any value
Dc Is perhaps as much by reason OF the
dates they bear. as anything else. They
NAV have some girnlficalce as indicating
how one mind was being made Up. during
the progress Of the discussions and the
conference IN circumstance free from
the effects OF American political discus
sion and the partisan atmosphere in
The Notes" on the subject are re-
printed without change or comment. the
. dates being given Excerpts from the
Notes" VIII be given here day by day.
8 April. 1s1s-RadIo suggests that
league Of nations may fail. I should
like 10 see il fail for the present, be
indefinitely postponed. and 8 mills
tary peace imposed on Germany at
once. We have no business settling
all these European problems and
70 sit in and see that our own inter
ests were not endangered We are
meddling with a most dangerous pol
icy. The American people would not
favor IL il they knew and had time to
consider.
q April. 191s-Perhaps the worst
feature about the league OF nations
is the blanket guaranty OF the in
tegrity and Independence, territorial
&
Of every country or nation on the
map OF the world 1t is a proposition
hi0lOgicslly wrong morally contrary
to principles OF progress, and politi-
caliy most inexpedient and unWise.
25 April. 191q-Lord Reading. Brit
fish ambassador TO the United States.
says The conviction has become
I general that never again shall the
sword be drawn 70 settle matters
/ Compare this with 1000 homicides an
nually IN Texas, and with our shame
full course in Mexico, and with Britain
in South Africa and in Ireland
May. 1919-The Monroe doctrine, in
part, is a fetish that would willingly
give Up and IN part It Is made inutile
] by new conditions The Monroe doc
trine is a minor matter in the league
7 OF nations question. Il Is not that
4 6
I No one. so far as I have read. yet
seems to have touched the real kerr
mel Of the thing. I do not favor the
League OF nations IN its present form
lit IS dangerous and unWise for the
I United States and Il viii not guaran-
I tee peace for long People do not 90
| into the fundamentals OF human ma
ture-- 1t is another attempt TO make
the world over by passing a law
! May. 191e-Dangerous stuff, this
I futernatioualist fad 10 analogy with
/ the United States itself, for the Unit
l ed States IS homogeneous, or at least
we pride ourselves that IL IS 50, while
I the world would not be the gamer ID
I national and racial divisions were
I thrown down. We are putting our
7 selves against natural laws as in
sistent as gravity
May, 1919-Fredericlr Adams Woods
/ lecturer on biology at the Massachu-
sets Institute OF Technology, writ
ling on CaiEula and heredity. says
! Power viii seek to mate with power
and the majority OF mankind VIII re-
main as an eNploitable mass" II IS
. scientifically true. and viii be true n
ths league OF nations
Nay. 1eIe-Real patriotism and ma
Z tionalism are consistent with uni
versal Interest, wide education. in
! ternational viewpoint, and intelligent
altruism.-Compare with relations Of
I family TO the state.-Denounce the In
I ternationalism OF today, which IS Z
dangerous in Wilson and his group a.
Z in Socialist groups.
I fFurther excerpts from the Notes
viii appear tomorrow