AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Seeman:m."1
Sta,—in the excellent article in the Spectator of November 20th, entitled "The Fickle Greeks," you use this telling sentence: "But he who wills the end must will the means." And I think this applies with great force to the short articles which lead the same number of the Spectator on " The Leagno of Nations." I think that no sane man can fail to agree with you that some application of the underlying principles in the idea of the League of Nations must be made to this war-spent world if our civilization is to be saved. This is the basic and cardinal truth; but the end being willed, we must needs will the means, and much ground must be cleared before the founda- tions of the edifice can be safely laid.
You in Europe have to stay the Bolsheviks and their insidious propaganda, which cares no more for civilization than did Attila. And what does the Sinn Fein care for civilization? I leave you and Mr. Lloyd George to answer that question. Great ideals must fall on willing oars to be made into living facts. Is France really ready for euch ideals instead of the pound of flesh? You may smile when I say that this United States of ours—with all its faults the nation most responsive to high ideals—is now the most ready to translate these ideals, not, perhaps, as a League of Nations, but as a "grouping" to cease wars into facts. We here have conquered our great domestic danger—the peril of a dictatorship—and I think we will be found quite ready to help whenever the domestic con- ditions of other nations permit them really to work with free
and open minds.—I am, Sir, &e., CLEMMIT B. NEWBOLD. 511 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
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