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Show I, LFJCUE WEAK I SAYSJARUER P Without America the League ! of Nations Is Bankrupt: Other Phases 1 ' j ii. 1. 1 M L m i i IBAR International Xewn Berries smrr orrospondeat. LONDON, July :. The league of HH nation ha rothlnjr but costly offl- ClaJfcj comnilMlona and resolutions." "To protect a small state It has no more power than the Society for the I'rotection of Women and Children." It Is now certain that America will never work out in Europe tho WUeon-iiL WUeon-iiL inn covenant." H "Wlthotrt America tho league N ' Th .' .ire l.ut a few of the points made bv Frederick Harrison In an nrticJo written for tho Fort nightly Re- JUL irrlaon Is exceedingly wii kno.wn in England as a thinker and an au-tlior. au-tlior. He Is lght -eight nrs of age, but In uptte of his yearn has an K3 i xtraordlnury vigor of mind and body. Kj Ii. 1901 he was Washington lecturer Chicago now is rlce-preeldont of tb Royal Historical society. As an nnthor he has written Inrjie number It Is not for us to Judge the po- 1 nticai problems and parties within th republic of the I'ntled States." con-jssH con-jssH tmues Harrison "There la much to JB Justify both sides In the deadlock be- I J twecjl president and senate Demo- PrT I i rat and Uepubllcnn it is entirely' s' lor them to settle thinga tn their own j . .i in their own home fe "But see the result of the deadlock i i he oi Id i ound KgS "It Is plain that the covenant and H ih. fourteen points were the Amerl-; Ii can condition on which the republic HH brought Ms enormous weight, its In- gJB exhaustible armies. Its wealth and lis IH inateriul resources Into the war." " - 'i . 'Bui for i hat coven nl B PD tain, France and Italy would have! IV F" their enemies in some form. But thej y ! rms of the American Intervention had entirely transformed the whole situation." The peaci w n II came- had ii) hound up with the American i ri 1 topis I nd rif t3 rac in I urop In Asia were fired with tho passion of elf-aesei Lion al thi call ol the blg-ulB blg-ulB Kost of the entente powers." H Then the domestic quarrel In the H states broke out. It withdrew In ac- H tion and In council. it left its de- H serted comrades in war to deal with the confusion of Europe and to pacify H the furious hopes and hales of races." i H The republic withdrew In action; It H did not withdraw in words Refusing LR to meet in council, refusing men, ' money or goods to its own creation, 1 viz., the league of nations. Haloes not' fl cease to crltlolae, to complain and to Bfl Interfere ho'h officially ami unofficial- B ly in the doings of lis late allies and fl in the execution of Its own treaty H It will not ratify Its own treaty, H yet it condemns the allies who have HH theirs. K9 The president will do nothing, meet H no one. discuss nothing: yet he claims j H to dictate to us his wishes and his I H OUUWrM from his sick room. H "Senators, mayors and the press J HI hark . nd Kt'owl .ihoiit I!rll:'h aitemp'- HV 1 to settle convulsions In the world M which the repuhllc will not tOUOll, i r - Ksfl Rsmuch as it passes by on the other A side HH "And the Journals and even Ini- HHBi portant public men use Ireland. In- dla. Egypt and the sea as counters In HHHH their own parly game. "We well know the necessity of a HHflH good understanding between our peo- HHBj pies, and our public men and press bear Insults and Injuries In silence. M i Bui man ma; falrlj .i.-k Is It an I honorable part of so r'orlous a nation HHEB I to Jeer at tho Good Samarlt&n while UQ I It prefers to 'pass by on the other Hfl I side'?" HBb Referring to Armenia and the re. HHSV I fusal of America to accept the man- 1 ilate for that country, "Harrison o-1 VjHj I ' It was an American president and HrH A i mti- . i. u ho, during Ha HbII l he wat and during the conferences HHRII most passionately pleaded for a league HHlHJj of nations to protect the weak peo-HHlHjl peo-HHlHjl k plea of tho east. The belief of the HHHjrl world) wa.s that whatever other task WBnlfl u,c republic undertook the mandate i L-jkA ( (t! sa-e Armenia would be their ob- HHHI vlous duty." HHl'l ' And now an internal dispute seems AHHb to reject that and every European HHDJJI I cause until after March. 19 21. at car. !S1- . |