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Industry Outlaws War

of details to be worked out point by
point.
Once satisfied that there is no mis-
understanding en- the issue itself, the
SignatorieS can then proceed to build
up those alternatives for war which are
necessary if war is to be eliminated as
an instrument of national policy anG
concentrate upon whatever instrument
of policy they find most suitable T.
every issue of international adiustmey
in the future.
The two clauses of the pact of Paris
furnish sufficient basis for the pro-
gressiye development of both policies
and instruments of international settle
mcnt because the first article renounceS
the no longer pertinent instrument o.
policy. which is war, and the SeconG
calls for pacific means of settlement
instead. This marks in terms of policy
if not of institutions, the methods o.
the future which must be worked on,
among the highly civilized nations.
Mr.. Kellogg'S statement of general
policy, while leaving the application Of
it where it ought to be-in the hand
of future trations-furnishes q
directive for policy which has behind
1t the weight of precedent in American
history so great as to make it seem at
/ first mere commonplace statement OF
American ideals. But now these ideals
are stated in treaty form. With the
reciprocal obligation upon the civilized
world We pass at last from the field of
morals into that of practical affairs, and
the attitudes of governments are to BE-
measured henceforth by common stand
ards agreed to beforehand.
+ Such an agreement is not by itself
/ pRNn rnkn D.
world. GUARANTEES call for closer CO.
| operation, such as is embodied in the
covenant of the League or the treatic7
of Locarno. But while the guaranty OF
peace is not provided in any formal
terms, the statement of the direction
and intent of Americas foreign policv
is an informal guaranty which, when
subscribed to Severally by all the othe"
nations. will serve to strengthen every
existing safeguard and to point the wav
to their improvement and extension.
In terms of the long perspectives of
history. the 10 years since the World
War are more significant than those
Of the war itself. for in this decade
the world has come to grips at last
with problem much more vital than
the readjuStment of European empires.
The way is slowly opening before us BY
WHICH TIE LelQ OF international AFFAIRS
will be opened up to the same kind of
political action as is used within the
state to insure both progress and the
maintenance of rights.
Intelligence on March.
1t will not open all at once: 1t will
open first when nations interests run
together; but the thing which makes
these interests develop is the very thing
which has changed the nature of war
Science, in its control of the forces of
nature. is breaking down the world-old
barriers of time and space and making
lis interested in the maintenance of
peace between other nations. The flu
ture will increase this process. nothing
can stop It; craftsmanship is blind II it
resorts to the barbaric instruments of
the pest when the new forces are at
the disposal Of nationS-forces that
work more nightly for peace than all
the longings or hopes Of men them
aelves. Fer 1t is intelligence which is
on the march, and sooner or later u
will substitute for the passing armistlce
Of nations an enduring peace. 4