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Show SELF-GOVERNING PEOPLES Thepost-belluntof mcwcles W ' which1 alT men now hope, of which even . those who do not .live, in' democracies dream, must be a union of peoples and , riot a union between sovereign states "A League of Nations will not do. i No1 contract between sovereignties as such would-endure; nor would itf at any time have 'any' 'real power, ,The democracies of the world the really self ' governing '-peoples-must abandon all efforts to" restore re-store the status quo ante; they must do what our forbears did.in.1787- they.must draft a new charter, under which the democracies of the world shall 'preserve their integrity as our States da under our Federal Charter but in cub3cribing to that charter they must qualify their sovereignty as our States did in entering the Union. All other plans are makeshifts make-shifts and will fail. Sovereignty as we practice it, however great its service may have been in the past, is now a relic of barbarism. There must be ,of course, final authority, a supreme expression of sovereignty, that , we call the consent of the governed, but ..there, can ultimately be only one such center o authority in this: little' world if wars, even worst than this are to be avoidedReview of Reviews. ' " . R There are now four times as many vessels ves-sels in nayal, service as a year ago. The estimated pay of officers andmeh in the . Navyfor thefirst year of war "was $125,000,000. . V ; " C |
