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Insensibly the war has become a struggle for establishing popular

government as the universal barricade against the intolerable danger and nuisance of autocracy with all its whims and caprices. The self-governing peoples are the only true " League of Honour," in Mr. Wilson's excellent phrase. We want no " League of Nations " that does not exact a sense of honour as the qualification for ad- mission. Germany may ultimately crave admission to our League, and we hope that in a regenerate state she may do so; but thanks to the United States, we now have a League that will go on, with or without Germany, to exact honest dealing and keep the pm:a of nations.

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