Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-12-24
THE COLLAPSE OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
By GEORGE B. LOCKWOOD

American entry into the League Of Nations was sue
cessfuly obstruced by American public opinion In its
behalf the most powerful pressure eXerted The same
highly organized and heavily financed forces which have
since been persistenty seeking to involve the United
States III the political and economic system of Europe,
enlisted IN their behalf many of the educational and re
gous leaders Of the country American implication in
the European system advocated in the of peace
and justice. But the driving force behind this movement
from the beginning has been codblooded financial in
tenaionaism Its purposes stated in the preamble
to the covenant: the removal of trade barriers and the
creation Of equal economic opportunity among nations
This and is project of world leveng America was
to be brought to the general world level in wealth and in
standards Of wages and living in order that American
capital that had been drawn abroad thru demands
might be safeguarded thru increased ability OF Eu
rope pay its debts, tho that sovency created
at the sacrifice of the we-beng and the peace Of the
American people.
Joined with the financial nternationasts in this mov-
ment internationasts of another sort Advocates
of European political deas of the European doctrine OF
the master state and the slave subject of
the universal employer and dictator; such theorists are
natural ant-nationaists and believers in the sacrifice
of America to so-caed world interests
Foes of the League Of Nations in this country declared
that while continent in which peace is the nat
ural order Europe because of its multiplied naonaitie
and its age-old hareds and rval11es is continent IN
which war is an inevitable development. They insist
ed that the peace Of this nation should not be made de-
pendent on the peace of the world. They declared that
the acceptance of Article XVI of the covenant of the
League would commit this country to whenever the
European powers should decide and that the youth Of
America could and would under this covenant, if i'll
meant anything at all be conscrpted to fight wars with
the origin and purpose Of which America had nothing to
do
Full confirmation Of this has been given by two crises
which have tested the value of the League First Soviet
Russia after signing the Kellogg treaty renouncng war
as an instrument Of national policy, invaded China in
1929 and by the Of armies forced that weak republic
to it's knees in dispute Russian railway running
for hundreds of miles Chinese soil Despite an APP
peal by China the League did nohing among all the sig
natories Of the Kellogg treaty. only the United States
and Roumania made any protest in behalf Of the pact thus
nsolently tramped upon In the making of this protest
President Hoover received support whatever from the
elements in this country which procaming the kel
logg pact as cure for war Encouraged by this prece
dent Japan has proceeded to do what Soviet Russia
did, in violation Of the Washington agreement the Kel
ogg pact which nsncere credulous pacifiss have
been telling us outlawed and ended and the League
covenant
IF the League of nations covenant more than a
scrap of paper the League would have been forced under
article XVI to blockade Japan, which is act of war
this should fall it would be the duty of the League