We might find ourselves committed by a vote of the
Assembly to go to war, for instance, with the United States, even though we thought that some Latin Republic of the New World which had secured the sympathy of the League was entirely in the wrong. Further, reckless enthusiasts fail to perceive how easily such a scheme as the Protocol might defeat its own ends by cruelly stereo- typing an existing state of affairs. _ The small nation with a real grievance might, because of its importunity, be branded as' an aggressor. We should then have to look back to the Holy Alliance for any parallel to such tyranny in the name of humanity. The rigorous modifi- cations which the Commissions made in both the Polish proposal for the prohibition of war and the Dutch pro- posal for reviving the Protocol proved that at present grandiose schemes cannot survive a close examination.
