hood." OTHER SPEAKERS peace in Central Asia.' And as for Liberty, Democracy, and BrotherEurope, anything has any day been possible while St. Petersburg and Vienna were reaching each for the other's throat over Balkan hills and plains. For forty years there has not been a British foreign secretary who has not gone to bed at night with the knowledge hammering in upon his brain that the morning light might show the seething cauldron of the Balkans boiling over and spilling its hell-broth over half the world. In world-business short views are false views. The short view of the Russian revolution is the false view. A righteous settlement of Balkan questions becomes more probable by reason of the break-down of Imperial Russia. "And the third ground of hope is the new and nobler spirit which we may well believe is at work in our modern world. Of this new spirit the United States is trustee. America has been called into existence and led until this hour first to safeguard and then to spread Liberty upon the earth. In association with the Entente nations America has broken the power of Germany and tumbled the throne of the Kaiser to the dust. To this extent and no farther its mission is accomplished. The mission the United States has yet to accomplish is greater. Its unaccomplished mission will remain unaccomplished, except as the world agrees to set up a World Court for the judicial settlement of international disputes. For the unaccomplished mission of the United States is the re-creation of the society of nations on the basis of Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, former Minister to Denmark, spoke of the rape of Schleswig-Holstein in 1864, comparable to that of Alsace-LorThe character of raine in 1871. diplomacy to be met at the Peace Conference would not be new. Its intricacies might be illustrated by a proposition submitted to him by a group of Danes, who sought to have the United States exchange Mindanoa in the Philippines for Greenland, which in turn could be exchanged with Germany for Schleswig. Germany's national aspirations are not lost; she has been defeated in a military sense but is to be reckoned with commercially and economically. Henry Morgenthau, former Ambassador to Turkey, felt that the small nations might take secondary place at the Peace Conference which appears to bring out chiefly the materialistic interests of the Great Powers. Europe was discovering that the United States was the real idealistic power. The need is that we stand up as pro-Americans in this international crisis. Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack, president of The World's Court League, referred to the patriotic attitude of the league in winning the war, and pledged the continued active service of membership and magazine to the League of Nation ideals. Dr. Albert Shaw, president of the National Advisory Board of the World's Court League, emphasized the unity of nations which won the war on so high a moral plane. Moral unity backed by altruistic rather than imperialistic public opinion must characterize the peace to be secured. Peace must be a moral victory too. Dr. Talcott Williams in presenting and approving the cablegram sent to President Wilson suggested that probably Mr. Wilson was in a sense the loneliest man in the world at this time of clashing international interests. APPRECIATION OF THE WORLD COURT From the Chairman of the Committee on Mr. Frank Chapin Bray, Editor, World Court Magazine. Dear Sir: Just a line to convey to you my impression of the strong growth in the character of THE WORLD COURT MAGAZINE. It is to-day a periodical which cannot be neglected. Not only is the subject-matter well chosen but it is also well done and highly important. The need for such a magazine is unmistakable not only now but for years to come. We must not think that with the adjournment of the Peace Conference our efforts to secure better international organization will come to an end. We have got to get the treaty ratified when it comes back. We have got to convince the United States Senate that the people of this country want a league of nations. Besides this, the long task and the permanent task will be to develop public opinion in favor of generous and decent behavior toward other nations and in favor of the settlement of interna Count Romanones, Premier of Spain, says: "Our feelings toward America are most friendly and most cordial. Public opinion throughout Spain is favorable to the maintenance of the best relations with America, and the feeling is that we must do our utmost to make them closer. Both the Government and the country are entirely agreed on President Wilson's fourteen points, and are especially in accord concerning a League of Nations, which wholly agrees with Spanish ideals. Indeed, Spain does not wish to be the last to enter such a league." tional disputes by means other than war. THEODORE MARBBURG. From the Secretary of The Church Peace Dear Dr. Dutton:-I am very glad to have FREDERICK LYNCH. 70 Fifth Ave., New York. China will support President Wilson's plan for a League of Nations. Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Tcheng Loh sent this message: "The policy which you have espoused to form a League of Nations in order to maintain the cause of justice for all countries, whether big or small, as well as to maintain the permanent peace of the world, is one of the greatest importance. 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THE WAR AND THE NEW AMERICA THE In World Court Magazine Sent Postpaid on Receipt of Price Address: WORLD COURT MAGAZINE, Educational Bldg., 2 W. 13th St., New York Vol. V, No. 2. Published monthly, $2 a year, by The World's Court League, Inc., Entered as second-class matter, July 31, 1915, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under TABLE OF CONTENTS, FEBRUARY, 1919 BIRTH OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS . Text of the Decision to Establish a League-President Wilson's Speech- Lloyd George Against "Organized Savagery"-Signor Orlando Hails Birthday of the Right of Peoples-M. Bourgeois Sees a Dream Becoming By Frederick R. Coudert |