Show 0 0 LEAGUE OF OP NATIONS By Mark Sullivan The newest thing in Washington today is quite old To any anyone one who tries to reflect events there is no impression more vivid than the vitality of ot the league of ot nations Every few weeks for three years past it has been buried burled but always either its friends resurrect it or its enemies dig It up for the pleasure of ot renewing their memories of ancient an an- II dent battles by giving it another i kick But of this latter sort 01 ol j thing there has not been very much lately The enemies of the league of nations are rather more apprehensive apprehensive apprehensive about It than they used to tobe tobe tobe be immediately after the election of or 1920 The present resurrection of the league comes through its friends and it is more to the front today than at any time for tor years past Wherever Wilson Democrats come together they are jubilant A good many Republicans are jubilant also The rest are sullenly determined Itla It Itis Itla la is not Senator Poppers Popper's partial re recantation recantation recantation re- re alone that has brought the league back In addition to that there is news that Ireland shortly is going to join the league There is also the judgment of some thoughtful persons that within a reasonable length of time the dispute between France and Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many will be put but up to the league for settlement That would enormously enormously enormously enor enor- enhance the importance and vitality of ot the league and would probably be bo followed by Germany joining g it The unsophisticated may think this is a long distance from Wash Wash- ington but tho the irreconcilable American American Ameri Amerl- can opponents of the league know that much of ot the political capital they were able to make out of opposition opposition opposition to the league was in their appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal to the passions of the German and Irish voters With Germany and Ireland in the league all that would disappear Further than this Washington is every day more and more moro conscious of the tho spread of church activities which demands that our government government government govern govern- ment take affirmative steps toward the league or some equivalent of it The recantation of Senator Pepper IB is next to that of ot Senator Borah Borab a afew afew afew few months ago the most serious defection the tho irreconcilable and isolationists Isolationists isolationists iso Iso- have suffered Buttered Borah and Pepper have gone through the same evolution about the league and essentially essentially essentially es es- neither of ot them is Incon Incon- Both believed ardently Ina in ina ina a league of the right kind Both thought the element or force torce In the league was deeply dangerous Both felt the first Job was to beat the wrong kind of league and beat It so that everyone should understand the element of at force in it t was dead Pepper now announces that if It the league will reorganize Itself so as to I omit the tho element clement of coercive force and remove tho the other obstacles the tho United States should join it I |