The Washington times., 1935-09-07
EX-ENV0Y SEES
LEAGUE RULED
BYPAC|F|STS

when it was founded in 1919.
They can't believe that its
judgement is likely to be impair
tial. They realize that the
league is concerned only with
preventing war, not with remOv'
ing the cause of war. This be-
ing the case, the Italians re-
fused to go to Geneva, as the
pacifists wished, merely to stand
in the dock. Nor could they
rely on the league to obtain
satisfaction in their demands on
Abyssinia.
"It would have been different
IL the league had developed rs
its founder intended that 1t
should. When the league was
created, we Italians were full OF
hope and confidence, perhaps
because, as the French say 'One
believes so easily that which he
hopes We were tired Of war
and suffering. We were disap-
pointed at the outcome Of the
conference, which had worked
In an unfavOrable atmosphere.
AMERICANS WISE
$50 it happened that most Of
us were inclined to agree with
President Wilson, who, realiz-
ing the formulas agreed upon
were unsatisfactory, exclaimed:
Never mind! The League will
put that right
$50 the League of Nations
was launched on the tranquil
waters of Lake Leman, to put
right the troubles of the world.
At the time we were much as
tonished that the American ma
tion would have none Of it. Now
we realize that they were wise
in their generation.
History is a continual re-
vision of existing situations. II
this were not so, the United
States would still be British
colony; Canada and Louisiana
would still be French, and Italy
would have remained a geo
graphical expression. In the
past any such revision could
only be operated by means OF
wars. The League of Nations
was created in order to effect
ther revision pacifically, though
the Covenant did not exclude
the possibility Of war. Article
XIX reads:
"'The Assembly may from
time to time advise the recon
eideration by members Of the
League of treaties which have
become inapplicable and the
consideration of international
conditions whose continuance
might endanger the peace of the
world
"This is the article on which
Italy might have based an ap"
neal to the League in the mat
ter of the AbysSinian dispute.
She did not do SO because, IN
recent years, it has been proved
time and again, that the expan-
SiOnists and revisiOnistS states
can obtain no sympathy at Ge'
neva, where the pacifist ele'
ments, who live in a FOOLS para
disc of their own, cannot bring
themselves to read the Coyen-
ant beyond Articles K and XVI.
They cannot rid themselves OF
the preconceived notion that all
expansion must be immoral per
Sc.
CHANGES FACE
"This is the spirit that has
been prevalent at Geneva dur
ing recent years. 1t is not the
spirit that was prevalent at
Paris in 1919 among the League
founders and adherents.
president Wilson intended
that the League of Nations
should represent an application
to international politics, of the
liberal principle, as opposed to
the conservative. In internal
politics, the liberal principle Is
that which favOrs concessions in
order to prevent revolution. In
international politics, the same
principle favOrS concessions in
order to prevent wars. 1t i'm"
plies q necessary adaptation OF
political thought to a world that
is ever changing, under the pres
sure of demOgraphic, economic
and social forces.
"It is not fair to the founders
of the League still to speak Of
it as if it were really today
what President Wilson imagined
1t might become-a separate en-
tity, distinct from its compO-
nent parts, with a council, not
of delegates each uphOlding
national interests, but Of mag
istrates', concerned only with the
administration of justice among
the powers.
"Today, the policy Of the
council can only be that which
is imposed on it by its more
important members, and the
League itself has been called
the astral body of Great Brit
ain.
ALL MUST WAIT
'PacifiSts at all costs have
done more harm to the League
than any of its avOwed oppOn-
ents, for they have placed a
veto on any reviSionist policy,
and they have turned the
League into q contemporary
Holy Alliance.
at would be wrong to be
unduIy pessimistic. The ideals