MACHINERY OF PEACE SIR, Walter Lippmann is as much of
a prophet as Wilson was: Wi indeed, gave mankind the vision of a world organisation for peace, the structure he set up disregarded the first principles of polit architecture.
Can men learn by their mistakes, or are they so wedded to particular machinery advocated by Wilson (pledges• by sovereign Sta that they will act together in case of need) that they will refuse to list to such prophets as Lippmann, who insist that only by building an organic group of nations, Lnited by common interests and a de cratic way of life, can we provide either for our own security or for peace of the world?
It may, of course, be argued that States will realise their own intern in world peace sufficiently to rush to the assistance of any victim attack, but the facts give no ground for such an assumption. To day, after all the lessons of this war, there are neutrals seeking to ev their obligations under the Covenant. Even America did not come in this war until she was attacked herself, although it was plain that security was bound up with ours. Even Russia did not. On the c trary, she had a pact with the aggressor in the early stages. Nor, put it mildly, did Britain or France exactly rush to help Ch Abyssinia, Spain,. Austria or Czechoslovakia. An organisation, therefor founded on the co-operation of four Great Powers is bound to cra Jeremiah's message was not popular, but Jeremiah was right.—Yo. faithfully, G. E. LEE. 47 Woodland Road, Northfield, Birmingham, 3r.
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