We all perfectly understand and sympathize with the haunting fears
of France, but if the League is to succeed new and larger methods of security must entirely supersede the old ones. It is for this that men who are intent upon saving our civilization must work. All that can be done now—but we hope it will be done with the utmost enthusiasm and conviction—is that Great Britain, France, and Italy should carry on and set to the world an example of toleration and co-operation. If there is- no failure in this respect America will certainly come in, and when America has come in success will be assured. We do not say that the League in its present form will remain. Possibly less ambitious but more practical machinery will take its place, but at all events the only principle which can make civilization safe will triumph.
