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This is the theoretical dilemma which may become real at any time--how are the League and the Monroe Doctrine to be reconciled? Many statesmen feel that the League without the United States is doomed to almost certain failure so it may be fairly said that the existence of the League threatens to kill the Monroe Doctrine. This is a situation which the admirers of our "splendid isolation" and the champions of the "American for Americans" idea did not foresee. Nonetheless, it exists. To declare the League jurisdiction inoperative in the Western hemisphere is to deprive its American members...
...heavily. Only when the victorious countries--France. Belgium and Italy--especially France, are alleviated in their burdens, can they in turn reduce their demands from Germany into a fulfillable sum. If this is not done we shall live on in a state of self-deception, led by politicians, not statesmen, under the pressure of militarists who can lead in war but not in peace. We citizens of a defeated land, can do but little to help; we must simply hope that these facts are realized abroad and that statesmen will somewhere spring up and, backed by the majority...
Soundless Guns and Sightless Statesmen...
...engineers have completed a 309 mm. quick-firing, soundless gun. They are working on a model halfway between the French 75 mm., and the German 77 mm. field gun, with a range of ten kilometres, and are trying to make it soundless as well. With soundless guns and sightless statesmen the next war will be even more glorious than the last. -New Republic...
There is indeed menace of many sorts in Europe, and I believe that the greatest menace is not where our newspapers and controlling statesmen teach us to look for it. The most famous and influential anti-war book written in the years before 1914 was written by Mr. Norman Angell. "The Great Illusion" proved conclusively that under modern conditions even the victor in war would lose by war. It proved that thesis conclusively, and yet Europe went to war, and the war not only brought about material prostration that must be long continued, but it left conditions and passions that...