The Washington times., 1921-12-03

SHhHSoo oiiuiIbs LIT. JOnn DcWeys COtii-
ments upon theae changes of front
and hints at some profound disingen-
uousness on the part Of the British.
But the reasons for these fluctuations
lie on the surface Of things. They are
TO be found In the European situation.
Britain. secure In Europe. unthreat-
ened on her Mediterranean routes, can
play the part Of strong supporter of
American ideals In China. She seems
indeed willing and anxious to do SO
In spite of her past.
Peace Commission =, eded.
But threatened In Europe, she can
do nothing Of the sort. She can not
extend an arm to help shield China.
while a knife is held at her throat.
SO the Pacific Is entangled with the
Mediterranean and the coasts of
France and 1t becomes plain that a
peace commission for Europe is a
third necessary consequence Of this
conference. II this conference is to
count as success.
Suppose now that this present con-
ference produces the first two COM
missions i have sketched and gives
way to a second conference with All
ampler representation Of the Euro
pean powers, which will direct It's
attention mainly to the reinsurance
and disarmament of France and Ger
many ana Britain, a Secondd Confer
ence whose findings may be finally
embod'ct In this third commission ]
have suggested, and suppose further
that an International Debt and Cur
rency conference presently gets to
effective work, surely we may claim
that the promised Association of
Nations is well on it's way toward
crystaliza ton.
Simply and naturally. step by step.
the President - the United States will
have become the official sumnfoner OF
a rudimentary World Parliament. BY
the time that stage is reached, a series
Of important questions of detailed or.
sanization will have arisen. Each
executive commission. as the success
sive conferences bring these Commits
sions into being, will require in Us
several spheres agents, officials, a
secretariat. a home for its archives. "a
budget.
These conferences cannot go on
meeting without the development of
such living and continuing body II
world administration. through the
commissions they must needs create.
Presumably, that body of commissions
Will grow up. mainly. in and about
Washington. IL IL does, IL will be the
most amazing addition to Congress con-
ceiveble. II will be the voluntary ami
gradual aggregation Of a sort of loose
World Empire round the monument
Of George Washington.
But do not see that all these COM
missions and parliaments needd sit In
Washington or that IL is desirable
that they should. A world commission
Tor land disarmament might function
In Paris or Rome. a world commission
for finance in Now York or London.
And meanwhile at Geneva, or in
Vienna, to which place there Is some
project of removal, the league of
nations, that first concrete realization
OF the American spirit. will be going
on in its owr rather cramped, rather
too strictly d/ined lines. II also will
have thrown out world organizations
I'm connection with health. with such
world interests as the white slave
traffic, and so forth. II will be con-
Quoting European arbitrations and It
will be providing boundary commits
sions' and the like. And somewhere
there will also be sort of world
supreme court getting to work upon
judicial international differences.
Experimental System.
Now this, submit. is the way that
world unity is likely to arise out of
our dreams into reality and this par
tial, dispersed, experimenting way Of
growth In perhaps the only way In
which 1t can come about. 1t Is not
80 splendid and impressive vision
rs that Of some world parliament,
some perfected league, suddenly flash
Ing into being and assuming the lead
ership Of the world. 1t win not be set
up like a pavilion but Il will grow
IKE a tree. But 1t Is a reality and IL
comes. The association Of nations
grows before our eyes.
And meanwhile, there is an Inn
tnense task before teachers and writ
ers, before parents and takers, and
all who instruct and make and change
opinion, and that is the task Of build
ing up a new spirit in the hearts of
men and a new dream in their minds,
the spirit OF fellowship to all men, the
dream of a great world, released for
ever from the obsession of warfare
and international struggle. great
world OF steadily developing unity in
which all races and all kinds Of men
will be free to make their distinctive
to the gathering achieve
ty,ept Of the raca