The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-05
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARGEN-
 TINE REVOLT

Representative of the Argentine republic withdrew from the League of Nations because of the refusal of the assembly of the league to give decent consideration to the views of this member-nation. The Argentine re- public is the most important govern ment in the western hemisphere, next only to the United States and pos isbly Brazil
 The chief organ of the movement to shove the league down the throats of the American people, the New York World, proceeds to abuse the Tevolting republic. The World says, in part: "No league of nations is possible, if every member is free to bluff and bluster, to enforce it's will upon others"
 No league of nations is possible, so far as this republic is concerned which is free, by any process, to en- force it's will upon the American pe0- pie. The Argentine episode proves how weak are the bonds which hold together the component parts of the new world government. No very ser ious problem has as yet been before the league for decision. When the time arrives that the league must make important decisions, the nations displeased with the verdict of a ma jority will be found following the ex- ample of the Argentine republic. The pretense that what the great powers which dominate the .1eagle council are seeking Is the establishment of ex. act justice in international relation ships, rather than the achievement of national advantage, is preposterous in the light of history. AS the league attempts to function, the untenability of the pretense that this attempted merger of nations Is a guarantee of world peace rather than a chronic cause of controversy and conflict, will increasingly become apparent.
 Young and growing nations like Brazil and the Argentine republic would not long be satisfied with a po- sition of inferiority in a world parlia- ment. Delaware and Rhode Island could not be brought into the union without an arrangement for state rep resentation which gave them equal the more populous states of the un- ion. It was inevitable that nations like the Argentine would chafe under tn arrangement whereby they held seats only in the secondary chamber of the world government. On the other hand it is inconceiVable that the United States would care to be bound by the decisions of world government in which the less import ant and less advanced nations of the world would have the same power in legislation affecting the American pSoplS dS OuI OWA ISpuUllC WOulu have.
 The only common ground upon which nations actually interested iI world peace and international equity can stand is to be found in league of justice,-a world court, rather thar a league of force,-a world parlia ment. The most elemental knowl edge of the fundamental characteris tics of nations would convince anyone not mere theorist and dreamer that this Is true. The first demonstration of this unalterable fact Is had in the refusal of the Argentine republic tt accept subordinate position in the league scheme. Quite evidently tht argument upon which the Argentine government entered the league was that the league covenant would be al tared to give larger influence to the smaller powers. But when that larg CT power is conferred, the scheme would become objectionable to more powerful, less dependent, nations.
 The withdrawal of the Argentine representatives from the league is an incident vastly more significant than the proponents of the scheme ot