The Prime Minister spoke on the League of Nations at
a luncheon given on Wednesday, December 22nd, to the Canadian delegates returning from Geneva. He said that the League had begun well, but that it would not achieve its real purpose until it included all nations. Germany would, he hoped, try to carry out the Peace Treaty, and then no one would object to her admission. America's presence was essential, because disarmament could not begin until all nations were agreed upon it. " You cannot have Britain and France doing it, and America not doing it." All nations must agree that they will not start again this pernicious and disastrous rivalry in arnup ments, which will inevitably end in another clash unless it is arrested." Sir George Foster, in reply, said that the delegates from forty-two nations who went to Geneva--'-and who added six nations to their number—learned to know one another, and that this result alone justified the meeting.
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