Evening star., 1941-09-02
League Of Nations
Revival Foreseen by
Institute Speaker
Two-Weeks' Session
On World Organization
Opens at American u.

Opening the Institute on World
Organization at American Univer-
sity, attended by distinguished ma
tional and international figures, Ar
thur Sweetser of the League of Ma
tions staff today declared that the
United States, from which the orig
inal idea of the League of Nations
emanated, still owes to the world q
moral debt" to help rebuild the
ideal of international responsible
ity."
The refusal of the United States
Senate to ratify the covenant (ot
the League) shook the League and
the world morale" declared Mr.
Sweetser, more than any single
event until the second World War.
The world and the United States
are paying the price today,
The League is the most human
of creations" he said, conceived by
man, built by man, betrayed by man
And men are today paying the price
of that betrayal They are paying
it on that 1,000-mile front in Russia
in France, in Great Britain, in the
Far East. And we in this country
are paying it too, in the cost of more
ornaments and in the whole up
heaval of our social and political
life
Traces Leagues History.
The speaker stressed the develop
ment of the League of Nations and
its history up to the cataclysm of the
second World War when, he said, "a
small band of devoted officials re-
manned, but the world for the time
forgot them until even Switzerland
began to tremble and the various
parts of the League sought refuge in
freer lands"
The economic and financial de-
partments of the League came to
Princeton, the speaker explained;
the anti-drug officials to Washing
ton, the International Labor Office to
Montreal and even the World Court
from occupied Hague to Switzerland
A new hope is arising, however,
Mr.. SWeetser told the institute, as
evidenced by several developments
He pointed to the Christmas, 1899
statement of Pope Plus: the words
of Acting Secretary of State Welles
in July: Il cannot believe that peo-
piles of good will will not once more
strive to realize the great ideal OF
an association of nations through
which the freedom, the happiness
and the security of all peoples may
be achieved" and the declarations
of Wendell Willkie and the eighth
point of the Roosevelt Churchill
statement.
"On the March Again"
THE world is obviously slowly on
the march again said Mr.. Sweet
ser. 1T is completing the circle back
toward the greatest single idea
which closed the first World War
having first embarked on that idea
only half-heartedly and then aban-
doning it to pass through the most
&dI 1lO1OSouSU III 4bS lllSJOI y.
The institute was opened by DR..
,Ellery C. Stowell of the American
University faculty, who introduced
the speaker. Mrs. Laura Puffer
Morgan, secretary of the institute, is
in charge of arrangements. The in
stitute will run for two weeks.
The first important social func-
ton was a scheduled garden party
this evening at the home of DR.
Paul F. Douglass, president OF
American University, on the campus
Subjects to be discussed at the
various seminars and lectures range
from financial and economic ques-
tions to health and housing prob
lens.
Public Session Tonight.
The first session open to the gen.
eral public will be held at $50 O'Clock
tonight. Carl j. Hambro, president
of the Supervisory Commission and
Assembly of the League, is sched-
uled to speak on The League as
Know It."
Pltman B. Potter, professor at the
Graduate Institute of international
Studies at Geneva, will speak al
the second public meeting at 8:3C
pm. Friday on The League in the
Evolution of International Organ
tzation."
Subjects to be taken up at next
weeks gatherings include minori-
ties, mandates, social questions, in
tellectual cooperation and COM
munications and transit.