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...feel that one thing is outstanding,--the League is growing in influence and gaining in confidence all the time. The Third Assembly was much more successful in actual results achieved than either of the first two. Lord Robert Cecil's Disarmament scheme, or, more accurately, Reduction through a Pact of Mutual Guarantees, to be presented next year; a definite agreement by four great League members to get Austria on her feet; the sending of Nansen to Constantinople to care for the Greek refugees; and work on mandates and minorities were the main business...
...confidence. Now that stumbling block to international harmony has been done away with, but the Conference failed to touch the fundamentals of war. The present Four-Power Treaty is good, but only a step forward. It is good because it represents an advance in numbers over the previous pact. Four is better than two. The 53 members of the League of Nations is infinitely more to the good, and it the whole world could come in it would be the final perfection of the scheme. The more nations who join the better...
...would have much the effect of a great approving public referendum on the work of the conference, and the influence of immediate ratification on other countries can hardly be over-estimated. On the other hand a long drawn-out discussion would have a tendency to destroy confidence in the pact. With this in view it behooves the Administration to force the issue, in order that the country may present to the world an appearance of undivided support of the conference...
...each for England and America, and 300,000 for Japan, and the ten-year naval holiday, are accomplished. This is perhaps the most important treaty; in addition, that limiting the use of submarines as commerce destroyers, the Four-power Pacific Treaty, the General Far Eastern agreement, the Chinese Tariff Pact, and the Shantung Treaty, all go far towards eliminating causes of friction and future war. Fourteen resolutions, ten declarations of national policy, and two treaties yet to be ratified complete the list of accomplishments...
...Treaty. There car be no hope for peace in Europe, economic or physical, until these two questions are satisfactorily adjusted. Germany's attitude is rebellious; the first of January, on which date by the Spa agreement--an agreement indulgently granting more time than was allowed in the Versailles pact--Germany was to have been disarmed, finds her still bristling with soldiers masquerading as ponce and civic guards. Although such trickery is not dangerous at present, it will soon become so if allowed to continue unchecked. The fact that Marshal Foch has planned within the last two weeks a line...