Show l 1 Where Now 2 Italy going on to wh what t it b believes to be WITH vy complete victory in Africa in spite of or League of Nations sanctions many individuals point to the league as a monumental flop As if to give finality to opinion they point to th the other major failure the failure the case of There seem to be really promising possibilities for collective action to prevent or quickly terminate ter ter- ter minate wars nevertheless They rest on the recognition recognition rec rec- of facts developed by experiment and the will to take appropriate action based on those facts even to discarding some basic theories theories the the- ories ones and substituting others fro from which in time factual contradictions and confirmations will arise to fo point the way to such perfection as as human human hu hu- hu man minds can create The theory of collective ac action ion for peace holds hope for fOI the world Its roots ar are in morality morality morality moral moral- ity from wh which ch a legal structure may be built The theory of the balance of po power er stands di discredited dis discredited dis- dis credited by history In no aspect is it moral Its claim to to legality Scan can an only be sustained sustained on the theory that might makes right Europe in particular needs a league that will work It may take many years to erect such sucha a structure Very largely it must be built by the cut and try method Out of the leagues league's failures its greatest strength may come The important thing for European statesmen to have before them is that it is not too late to talk peace If they will recognize accomplished facts the facts the success success suc sue cess of the Italian conquest and the actuality of the remilitarization of the Rhineland and and start from there with a clean slate there opens a vast possibility of of r reshaping shaping the badly battered league as conceived by Woodrow Wilson In the light of Europe's post war wa history reVision revision revision re re- re- re vision of the Ver Versailles treaty y must be a part of the effort The inevitable has been postponed until the whole of the old world stands exposed to to the very real danger of catastrophic war ar The 1 injustices of the dictated peace must be wiped I out boundaries must be reconsidered colonial questions must be reviewed the war debts issue and the economics of postwar Europe must be opened to an entirely new approach The nations nations nations na na- na- na of Europe must by collective action work workout out a modus on that basis before the themore more permanent instrumentality for preserving t peace can be cr created Mostly they a are e all mad madat at ut t one another ready to launch ships and put soldiers in march to gain their point In that I It frame of mind they cannot undertake to reshape the league When that task is approached a complete rev reversal of theory with respect for sanctions j may spell spen the difference between success and failure for the league Utah's Senator Thomas pointed this out last week in an address before the American Institute of Law Instead of instant determination of the aggressor as in the Italo- Italo Ethiopian case why not attempt to restrain all violence violence violence-by by imposing sanctions or utilizing any other weapons in the hands of the league against both sides in conflict until conflict until a decision can be made as to which is th the aggressor Our L own neutrality law accepts this theory as as' as both legal egal and expedient for application against our own wp citizens and moral because it condemns war as immoral Sanctions as now set up in the league covenant failed to stop Italy Humanity everywhere outside Europe has a amoral moral right to demand that Europe put her ho house hose se in order This humanity i is s without implements im im- im- im with which to fa enforce the demand but until it receives compliance the whole of civilization civili civili- tion faces the direful threat of extin extinction tion |