The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-26
OPPOSES RULE
OF WORLD BY
Great POWERS
Little Nations Have Saved
Cause of Peace, Ohio
Notable Declares.
POINTS OUT FAILURES
Real Accomplishment Is
!. Record to Date at Geneva,
He Says.
POINTS OUT FAILURES
CBy scripps-Howard Alliance)

CLEVELAND, o., Oct. 26.-New-
ton D. Baker, Secretary Of War
during the World war and one Of
Americas leading advocates of the
present League Of Nations, took
sharp issue today with the organ
ization of a new league as proposed
by Ralph Blumenfeld, editor of the
London Express, by an agreement
between the United States and
Great Britain.
This new league would be a
league of the big nations, which
would undertake to keep the little
ones in order. He characterized the
present league as "a germ-carry-
ing talking machine" ineffective by
its endorsements.
Baker outlined his views Tor the
ScrippS Howard newspapers.
"I share Mr.. BlumenfeldS teellng
that sympathetic cooperation be-
tween the United States and the
British empire is essential TO
maintenance of world peace. What
ever temporary differences or feel
ing or interest there may be be-
tween the British and ourselves, our
deepest feeling and our strongest
interests will urge us to such cooper
alton. but from all the rest Mr..
Blumenfeld says, dissent.
Praises Small Nations
"He seems to be tired of the
League of Nations because it has not
been run by Great Britain and the
United States, and he is tired also
of the League of Nations because
they talk lot at Geneva.
"Now, of course, the fact about
the League of Nations is that it and
the peace of the world have peeu
saved by the small nations. Japar,
Czecho-Slovakia, Greece, Sweden
Norway and Belgium have been rep
resented at the league by statesmen
of supreme ability and the con-
tributionS made to the preservation
of world peace by men like, BranV
ing Nansen, and Benes have beeu
as important as those made by any
body with the solitary exceptions Oh
Lord Robert Cecil and Genera
SmutZ.
"The little nations have quite
justified their right to be members
of the league. AS a matter OF fact,
there are just three ways TO Try to
keep peace in the world.
Three Roads to Peace
some: an imposed peace by which:
a. strong nation or several strong
nations impose peace on the resi- u
the world. Alexander the Greas
and the Caesars both tried this and
failed Mr.. Blumenfeld wants 10
trv it again on somewhat broader
hasis but with the same inevitable
seeds of failure. ~,
"Two: A balance Of power. Eu-
rome tried this up to 1914, when the
whole thing collapsed into the
World war. Nobody wants TO Try
this again.
'eThree: A concerted peace on a
democratic basis, in which all ma
tions have a chance to talk TO tneH
hearts content about all their IN
terests, prejudices and crank loeaS'
as Mr.. Blumenfeld calls them.
Bring Out the Poison
eff this leads to poisonous talk, as
Mr.. Blumenfeld says it does, 1t VIII
he far better to bring the poison
ont into the sunshine than to leave
It ranking in some tuppeny little
II have great confidence in the
wisdom, both of the British and
ourselves, but I do not believe we
are wise enough or certain enough
in our wisdom to govern the rest OF
the world without it's consent.
"As a matter of fact, the League
of Nations is growing stronger every
day and that talk in Geneva of
which I have heard a very great
deal seems to me to be curative
rather than dangerous"