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THE WORLD'S CONTROL, "
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the Central Powers But the steady THE HOLY ALLIANCE, 1815- A LEAGUE MOST DE STRONG."
pressure of necessity has already carried
This attempt to revive the mediaeval But, the common sense of practical men
The Allies beyond the mere League stage, breaks away from this proposal to keep and it must ultimately take them beyond ideal of a united Christendom, in the the peace by gossamer. It breaks away
more exclusive dealing with their Allies. Kingdom of God on earth, is peculiarly. in two directions, which are not nearly
The attainment of a unity of military interesting at the present time. It was the [UY B. G. WELLS.]
so opposed as one may think at the first glance. One is to reject and abuse the command has been accompanied by a personal, and sincere work of Alexander L progressive pooling of interests and of Rassia. The Austrian statesman Metter- resources, los conspicuous perhaps, bat nich skilfully praverted it into the machine- We have in the last four years found idea of a League of Nations on the
In matters of food, for the repression of all liberal movementa assumption that the Marburg scheme ex-
mora significant. out the real nature of modern war. The hausts its possibilities (cf. ex-President
have been forced to scrap, first in this rived in a more modern and practical form struggle has differed profoundly from Roosevelt); the other is to put more auth coal, metals, and shipping the Allies of 1948. The ideals of the Tsar wero ro-
Few of us
instance and then in that, the idea that by his successor, Nicholas II., the originator warfare as mankind has hitherto knownFetanco into the profossi.
desire to see, as a prificipal outcome of
they were separate competing entities. of the Peace Conferences at the Hague in it It has become a "monstreus and this world catastrophe, a collection of America gees easy with the bacon that 1900 and 1507.)
In the name of the most holy and in- iliwitable process, a struggle of upcon eminent jurists at The Hague making England may be fed, and England will trollable inventions that makes insati nervous at the forces that will prepare shiver this winter that Italy may not be divisible Trinity, Their Majesties the
the next. What most sensible people able demands upon every human re desire is either a strong Lenge frozen out of the Alliance. While the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia source. It has rapidly abolished nearly Nations or no League of Nations at all: faint-hearted gentlemen of the Weak and the Emperor of Russia, in conse League of Nations movement are assure quence of the great events which have If the beast of modern war is to being us that the nations of the earth are marked the course or the last three years every discrimination between combatant chained, it must have a chain to hold it and non combatant, and it refuses to and not a packthread; and the drift of far too jealous to tolerate the slightest in Europe, and especially of the benefits infringemens of their sovereign rights, which it pleased Divine Providence to tolerate any other activity than" itself.
of the League of these poolings are going on upon a tre bestow upon the States whose Govern Everything goes into it. It has crased Nations is all in the direction of estimendous seale. When at last the German ment, have put their trust and hope in mating what weight of chain is absolute mind is attuned to revolutionary ideas it alone, having become deeply convine- ly necessary and what we must do to and the Hohenzollern incubus is set aside,ed of the necessity of basing the conduct so that a chastened Germany can come to to be adopted by the Fewers in their get that chain
Directly the idea of the League of the Peace Conference with some hope of mutual relations on the sublime truths Nations is released from the limitations being believed
organizations must assume Divine Saviour:
Declare solemnly that the sole object to meet with the approval of Höhen a practically world-wide scope. However Germans. rollern-governed, Germany, it begins to much Englishmen may dislike expand mightily in our minds. It be they must get back to some monetary foot of the present-instrument is to manifest gins to take on a form and an elabora ing in common, even if it is only to secure before the world their resolute deter tion commensurate with the scale of the the economic reinstatement of Belgium.mination to take nother rule for their war. Instead of being a mere delaying And manifestly there must be some conduct, either in the management of upon a desperate and planless their respective States, or in their restraint intervention, and remonstrance upon the resumption of industrial corapetition, political relations with all other Govern- eve of war it enlarges into a project for There must be no scramble for food All ments, than the precepts of this holy A world control of the preparation for such matters involve a control to which religion, precepts of justice, charity and war and for a world anticipation of its the enemy must be a consenting party peace which, far from being solely ap causes. It becomes a scheme for a new These controls are matters that will bot plicable to private life, ought, on the -Out the rast destructiveness of modern
To talk
be settled in a few weeks or months. It contrary, to have a direct influence on. war in progress is not the greatest aspect political order in the world. of these developments. Less striking to of love is to make love, the wise have
is natural to look to sich committees of the decisions of Princes and guide all will "accessarily be their proceeding, being the sole indaus the imagination, but far more portent said; still bruer is it that to organize world control as cas, is what modern war wilt become in armies is to make war. If the League formed at the Peace Conference to restore of strengthening human institutions and preparation. When this war concludes, of Nations is to be a reality in the days the shattered financial and economic order remedying their imperfections... Conse unless it concludes in some absolutely to come, it must have sufficient authority as bodies that may be given a permanencequently, their Majesties have agreed convincing world pacification, it is and power to inquire into restrain, and by treaty, that may be supplemented
Art. I. In accordance with the words manifest that there will Have to be added suppress armamen's on land and sea, permanent world committees to deal with on the following articles to the Army and Navy of our former wherever and whenever any country is health, navigation, emigration, and other
the civil of the Holy Scriptures, which command all men to look on one anothers brothers, iutas, and kept always in a state of the world gets bitten with the passion for general purposes,
That proposition, carries administrative side of a world ingue. acute preparedness, a vast air feet, vast armament. anti-aircraft equipment, a vast exten with it tremendous corollaries, but it The creation of a general sense of the the three contracting monarchs will re
submarine work,
huge constantly ceived of as upon that scale, then most propaganda and eduation and its em indissoluble brotherhood and, regarding developing tank force, a drilled popula sensible men will give the League of bodiment in political forms will, indeed, one other as fellow-countrymen, they tion, and a huge establishment of war Nations a very limited and temperate, be rather the culmination and recognition will lend one another at all times and factories. There will be a constant com- or else an acutely suspicious, attention of a process of human unification already places help aid and succour; consider in full progress than a real new departure ing themselves as fathers in their rela petition of new designs in all these
tions towards their subjects and their in human affairs,
arnes, they will rate their actions in things. We shall have to make and
A world control of armaments implies
THE NEW WORLD-POLICY..
the same spirit of brotherhood which scrap, even if we do not fight. We shall
From being a proposed addendum to inspires themselves to protect religion, indeed be eaten up by armaments, com--and there is no good whatever in pared with which the armaments of 1913 shirking the fact some sort of world human life, in the form of a Court of peace and justice.
Art, IL-Consequently, the sole prin. will seem trivial miniatures. Few ob- council, some sort of pooling of the Jurists, the League of Nations has thus servant people believe that Labour will naval, military, and air forces of the become the outline of a broad and hope-ciple in force either between the said stand the new armed peace for long in world thereon to a degree commensurate ful scheme for the reconstruction of inter- Governments or between their subjects spirit of any country of the world; and Russia with their. strength and will. This is national relationship upon a sound and shall be that of rendering one another has shown what may happen to a popa- going beyond a league this is an ap- enduring basis. It is a new world policy service, of bearing witness by lation atrained beyond its breaking proach to world federation. Mr. Belloc It is a scheme that may inaugurate a new unchangeable goodwill to the mutual point. When a Government goes another declares it amounts to a World State, and happier phase in the troubled history affection by which it is their duty to be Government may take its place, but and the Fabian Research Committee in of mankind. But at every step it demands animated, of regarding one another in It is all cases selely in the light of members when a social system breaks, it is a de its League of Nations project calls it, sacrifices of prepossessions bacle. The nature of the prospect in the Shavian jargon affected by that good clinging to ideals of a world of of one and the same Christian nation; grows so clear that intelligent men of society, a Super-Blate. But the discus. unrestricted Free Trade and laissez faire the three allied Princes looking upon. every party and every type of social presion of the relations between a central if the world controls of the League of themselves only as delegates of Provid possession are coming together upon this control with delegated powers on the one Nations are to come into existence; it fundamental necessity of putting an end hand and of sovereign States thereunder equally unreasonable to dream of schemes eace for the government of three bran- igners, including France, Prussia and Russia, confessing also that not only to war but to the threat of war, on the other, has been one of the chief for a self-contained British Empire, tax ches of the same family, to wit-Austria, There is no party in the political world employments of American publicists for in the United States. We have the Christian nation of which they and
Italy, and the that has not given prominent adherents more than a century, and a European to cease to think Imperially as we have their peoples form part, has really no now to the League of Nations idea writer should go warily among terms had to cease thinking parochially, and we other Sovereign than Him to whom alone they have long since technicalized and have to think now in terms of the peace in right belongs all power, because in. brought to a very keen and cutting edge of the world. The League of Nations Him alone are all the treasures of love, Roughly one may arrange League of The practical man is far less interested points straight to pooling of Empires, knowledge and infinite wisdom, that is, Nations proposals, as they are to be in the exact legal and terminological and it is no good blinking the fact And God, our Divine Baviour Jesus Christ, encountered at the present time, into a value of this counuilor standing con- since it cannot operate in an atmosphere the Word of the Most High, the Word series between two extreme positions ference, or group of committees, or what- tainted by suspicion, the League of of Life. Their Majesties therefore urge On the extreme left is what is practically ever the exact form of world control may Nations demands for its effective opera-their people with the most tender solici defeatist proposal, a mere rehabilita be, to which the plain logic of human tion a change in our diplomatic methods. tude to adopt the sole means of enjoying tion of the Hague Tribunal. It is a necessity is driving mankind, than in The world has become too multitadinous that peace which springs from a good undentandings. Id this conscience and which alone is lasting by timid scheme for delay and arbitration; the way that control will work, the for secret some sort of International Conference is powers it must have, and the means by warming world of half-taught crowds, to meet occasionally; there are to be a which it will keep itself in touch with with its imminent danger from class growing acquaintance with the prin Supreme Court and & Coart of Concilia- the general consciousness of the people hostility and distrust, Governments must ciples and practice of the duties enjoin say plainly what they mean and standed upon mankind in the teachings of the tion, the former to try disputes upon of the world.
Art. III.-All the Powers who are points of international law, the latter The present war has made nothing by their declarations unambiguously. It Divine Saviour. to discuss "non-justiciable differences. more manifest than that the effective may at times be dificult and tedious to No interference with the political con- control of militarism must extend out inform a whole population upon the willing to make a solemn avowal of the not in themselves values of some international situation, sacred principles which have prompted stitution or internal arrangements of to issues that are
but the danger of misconception and the present instruments and recognise any State is contemplated, no organis-military. The development of war, as ed disarmament and control of militar I have already pointed out, has been spasmodic crowd action outweighs the how important it is for the happiness of desire of the expert for an uncriticised the nations, disquieted too long, that isin can therefore ocent; Germany unsteadily abolishing the non-combatant: on. There must be an end to secret these truths should exert henceforth all defeated and unregenerate will, for modern war is a struggle of whole popu-
as affection into this Holy instance, be admitted to such a League lations fighting with all their industrial diplomacy Nations must understand their due infuence on the destinies of
world requires that the very children in ardour on the expression of a few pious senti. and economic strength, and an effective their responsibilities." The welfare of the mankind, will be received with as much ments. This is the scope of the American world control of militarism implies an the elementary schools should be taught Alliance.
Done in triplicate and signed at Paris scheme of Mr. Theodore Marburg, and it effective world control of food supplies the broad outlines of the agreements and has the support in England of such ex- and of the supplies of staple articles treaties that bind their nation into the in the rear of grace 1815 (14) esth Sept. treme Radicals as Mr. Lowes Dickinson generally, of coal, iron, and the like. mosaic of the world's peace. They have to grow up understanding and consenting -if we may call men Radicals who Moreover, a world control of war implies shrink from revolution: We may call a world control of the causes of war, if only on account of the grim alternative these extremists the "Weak Leaguers Modern wars, it has been said, are which the precedent of Russia suggests.
These are the two points upon which and their proposal the "Wear League fundamentally economie; they are strug of Nations. Nothing could be more gles for markets and raw material, and readers are most likely to find difficulty acceptable to German Imperialim nader it is evident, therefore that a world con- in the League of Nations project Your
strange and large, a cloud than the schemes they put for- trol of militarism that does not provide readers are not supposed to be very much becomes world-wide. And when the con- ward. Such League of Nations some substitute for war settlements upon in love with democres they are supposed servative-minded recoil from the novel. would have about as much control these questions will be no better than to cling to the traditions of that less asociations, the
from intense phase of the world's history before responsibilities of the new proposals, then a blue
the restraining a suffocating man neck-ribbon upon sims and activities of a tiger. Herr smashing a window which gives upon the fint French Revolution, when war was we must return to the initial and funda air. A world control of at its highest degrees of specialisation and mental necessity of the car How else Erzberger's scheme does indeed meet fresh these proposals from the German aide. militarism will lead, it will be found; international affain the exclusive concern can you prevent Mars from ting up and There is to be no interference with the to a world control of shipping, and of of a few Courts and great families. And destroying your whole scirl order! If internal affairs of any State and the the world distribution of staples, to re- there is probably no section of the public you do not like thinking et a League of service, and night and day air raids-with five or six Imperial only check upon the good faith of a coun-straint upon tariff wars, and, indeed, to for whom the thought of the Empire has Nations enforcing peace uren the world,
woven into the.
ton bombe sad the like-and the giant try in its disarmament will be the statis a general control of international trade more magic. Family traditions are inter, then think of the deep-sea submarines, the ties supplied by that country to the This is a large order both for the Free prestigeira precious thing to your tanks of the great war of 1935 or there- Bureau at The Hagic. Herr Erzberger Trader and the Tariff Reformer, but it public To some of your readers such a
part of any scheme for an phrase as the pooling of empires may abouts, when at last our Empire has to does not apparently propose any retiro:controlof: warak
sound at first both base and brutal. But, put its back to the wall to defend its indeed, the League of Nations is not a self-contained tariff-protected monopolice
Or of the plange into Bolshevik despair ask
which may be is rather a broadening out of the ides of and so forth, as they think fit. Buch The experienes of the Allies confirma cessation of such an Empire as ours; it the part of Labour under the pressure the alternative to such a war-Morning private enterprise will presumably be this propertion It has been asserted a vast trusteeship among nations until it of armament production, an internal affair, and not figure again and again that even now's League
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