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Show PERPETUAL PEACE Everyone is in favor of making war impossible between France and America, if it can be done. Everyone is likewise in favor of making war impossible between every other nation and A.merica if this can be done too . Proposals have recently been forwarded for a treaty of perpetual perpet-ual peace between Uucle Sam and France . Both nations are of course willing to have eternal peace but there is still some question as to how the matter can be satisfactorily and effectively worked out. From our standpoint there are some little things that have to be taken care of the Monroe Doctorine for instance . And the French have their commitments, too . For example, the French nation is a member of the League of Nations . And as the Washington Wash-ington Post recently pointed out, France is therefore honor bound by treaty to join other nations' in making war on the United States whenever the United States refuses to do what they tell it to do . Of course there is no apparent danger now that Uncle Sam will run afoul of the league or its court and come in for a general chastisement. chastise-ment. But if the league, at suggestion of certain members should ever take us to task about the Monroe Doctorine, or the immigration question or one half dozen other things, just what would France as a loyal member of the league, do about it if she were at the same time never to use force against the United States? It can of course be said that these are pujely hypothetic problems, prob-lems, but hypothetical problems have a habit of becoming real ones now and then and it is always best to have an understanding in advance. ad-vance. , |