Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-10 | Page 4 | A Flop in the Test

A Flop Flop- in theT the Test est sf 1 1 S every everyday day as news comes comes from tt ft Geneva concerning the thO undertaking of the League Lague- of Nations to make go good d in a a crisis discover discover discover dis dis- cover cover ab abundant new new to v vindicate di ate those I who fought entry into the league lea by bythe by the United St States tes Against the record of its minor successes in dealing with relatively unimportant Ut int international rna rna- tion l disagreements it is now only adding to the record of its its' gross failures in s 's solving issues of real al moment to th the thO world La Lack k of confidence d dence nc in nits its p potency must grow grow as it t flo flops flos s whenever whenever whenever when when- ever it must face a real test The league was born of mingled despair and arid hope bope The endt f the World war Jound the peo- peo pl pie of the world sick of war They Ther were not notI I- I sure that a it had not wr wrecked ked civilization they t were were sure that a new war would do so beyond y J dispute They evol evolved th the league a as as' j their safe- safe guard But i it was curs cursed from the start The i diplomats m ts at Paris were not the men to fashion a new world Lloyds Lloydj George had just just- w won wan n an election on a hang the kaiser program Cleme Clemenceau was Vengeful l determined to see sec Germany crushed Wilso Wilson was visionary and arbitrary These Jr shaped the league They tied lied d i it up with th a te treaty that l h w was WS unmistakably nm s aka lr un unjust st st. fl What Viat at tt t happ happened ned pEter after r that was as' as only 0 too naf natural I. I America solemnly wash washed d her er hands of of thc th the whole performance France began began- energetically to use the i league gue as an instrument nt to insure her own victory over Germany Engl England d contributed contributed contributed contrib contrib- t the tIie for former fox fox- or ormer many pious phrases sat at tight tig on mer German Gernan colonies and sabotaged the naval disarmament conferences It It beca became evident after after a while that a stream could rise no high higher rth than n its source The source of the league was was the jealous s and watchful watch watchful watch watch- ful fut nationalism of th the gr great at powers Tp make the league a working affair involved risks Mankind Mankind Mankind Man Man- kind in general refused to take the risk So the the- first first- when l league ague d demonstrated i its impotence impotence- Japan marched into Manchuria later when I y set Ethiopia Th The fault is a fault all ll civilized peoples esmust must share We Ww were re not ready to bring a new new- world order into existence