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that the United States, Great Britain,
Holland and Switzerland could pro.
hibit war to all the rest Of the world
tomorrow-if they choose. Between
them they ......
Control the finances of the whole
world. No nations breaking the peace
could hope for any financial help
against their combined boycott. Eng.
land. America and Holland between
them control the greater part OF the
worlds supply of petroleum, Russia
being the only large-scale producer OF
oil in an independent position. England
and America between them control
the worlds supply of cotton and cop
per, Russia again producing compare
lively small quantities of cotton in.
dependently. England and France
and Belgium, IL she adhered. as is
highly probable, control the greater
part of the tropically produced edible
fats. Most of the wool and jute is
controlled by the British empire.
without money. oil, cotton. wool,
rubber, copper, zinc. jute, tin or edible
fats, no war on the modern scale could
be Waged for very long. A very large
proportion Of the meat and wheat of
the world would also be controlled by
this group of peacemakers. Do not let
us involve ourselves in complications
about aggressive powers or who Is to
blame In any war. To do so would
simply be to cloud the ISSUE"
Let us, in short, simply put our
collective foot down and say stop
that war" and it will stop.
X X X X
That is an excellent passage. 1t
should be given out as a dictation
lesson in every school in the English
speaking world. We. just ourselves,
can stop war almost completely.
But who are we?
America, Britain, Holland, Belgium
and Switzerland, with France and
Germany In accord, will be the reply.
But In what form are they to do it?
There the lieutenant commander bog.
giles and remains vague. Because. you
see, there is no way OF getting these
powers together except by getting
them together. and that means a fed.
eral merger Of so much of their in
dependent sovereignty as concerns
their foreign relations. Before we can
have peace these powers must form
league to enforce peace. That means
no tinpot debating society of every
little state, big or little. barbaric or
civilized, strong or feeble, at Geneva.
with no powers worth speaking about,
but a real permanent league and al.
lance of these. the only really war
potent states, q sincere surrender of
independent action on the part of all
OF them for the general good. Well,
not one Of the communities named is
even slightly prepared for such a step.
1t would shock them more than any
declaration OF war could possibly do,
And until the common sense Of these
communities can be raised to the level
OF realizing this they will continue to
drift as they are drifting to another
scattering war catastrophe.
X X X
/ suspect that the author Of this
book before me knows that as we'll
as / do. But there is Hull to con.
slider. What would happen to the
lieutenant commanders majority If he
advocated plainly and simply putting
the empire under a greater league?
l quite realize he cannot afford to
take so grave risk of extinction
and Illustration.
phrase, now popular in America,
seized upon him in the ensuing hest.
tation and was for the moment 1.-THE
only road" Yet 1t is not a road out
or anything like a road. It is Just
another piece of empty fruitless
American 'idealism" utterly worth.
less to the world at large. War is to
be "outlawed." A wonderful word!
Senator Borah finds the phrase suits
his voice. and gather it has the ap-