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Show 1 HE GENEVA FAILURE In l r He of the fact tba'. the !.ou gu ot Nations met and iu'journed withf. ut getting Germany into the organization, and even it everyone h.isi ,"ctie tome to .try to foget about 't Iht time being, discussion of the situation seems to be as prolific us evei. 'he principal fact that sea. ds out jf tho whole mess from tvi Aun.ii Cui: point of view, Is that every Ai:i-" Ai:i-" iio'i ought to be than'icul thai ve eix rot members of the League whn .he March, session wp . held I'l'ere can be little doubt that lit li".iguij members are aravitating "oacfc to the balance of p -wer sys-Loiu sys-Loiu The intriguing that went oa buck and forth at Geneva is abun-dmn abun-dmn pioof of this. If the Uni ed S'ates were in the Leag ; . of Nations Na-tions we would have been oinpelle to take some part in this, to fav-'r one combination or other ijerman delegates claims,! th.-.i at 'orno they were givai, to :.n-dcrs'.hnd :.n-dcrs'.hnd that Germany vj ..in i;er ln'o flit- council "as is" without the iutrndi c'lon of other oie-.iMrs at liie !- mc time, which they charri'--teriitd a "breach of faith " France on t. other hand maintained that ;'.Ke hud no such understanding av: t ;.t ' eland, as an ally of rian-x-. i: terested in the Locarno pact, with much at stake, ought '.. i bu in the council as a permanent mi-'nber. It was on this rock that the council coun-cil split. True it was Briz.' which Anally broke up the meetiug but nobody no-body seriously believes that Brazil acted on her own accord, 'i iu kindliness kind-liness with which she has been treated by the European poweis since is to say the least significant But if the United States has been iu the league we would have had to do one thing or anothnr. AV,- would have had to stand by Frame and insist in-sist on the admission of Poland to the council or to adopt tu l"rman view that she was thrt victim of a breach of faith and should have gone into the Council :iu e But Fiance and Germany were no! stand ing aione. There wer.i other i:aUor.c supporting each viewpoint :ind in making our decision w w ould have oii'ended one group of po-v,:s or another. an-other. And the politic il questions involved were question"; iu which we have no concern. The United States i.: a nation apart. We have drawn o.ir ciii.-ti! from all countries in Tv'iope, and it is peculiarly necessary that wo refrain re-frain in taking sides z f. lroly European Eu-ropean questions. |