We have dealt so fully elsewhere with , the American desire
for a League to Enforce Peace and the answer, that we will here only point out once more that the Reply speaks of " a League to ensure peace," whereas we think we are right in saying that the American organization under ex-President Taft's scheme has always used the phrase " the League to Enforce Peace." Between the two words there ilk a vast difference. The Allies' Reply goes on to declare that the discussion of future arrangements designed to ensure a lasting peace presupposes a satisfactory settlement of the present conflict. Unfortunately, the Allies judge it impossible to-day to bring about a peace " that shall assure to them the reparation, the restitution, and the guarantees to which they are entitled by the aggression for which the responsibility lies upon the Central Powers." These, they say in effect, are required for a peace that shall permit the establishment upon firm foundations of the future of the nations of Europe. "The Allied nations are fighting to safeguard the inde- pendence of peoples, right, and humanity."
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