KEEP THE WORLD’S PEACE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7920, 18 August 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

KEEP THE WORLD’S PEACE.

<r K « FOR THE LEAGUE ' nations. (HAKI.ES PILLEV: fhtf'il Article On The ()f Future Warfare. inu-i national so rich in has liecoinc a bv- ( jnvfntions" are a synonym \ f a |un* of the loftiest hur'K|„. object of open derision, ft,. lanl-s Huns, bi>t i»y ■ j,. N who in the name of ■j,o« n compelled to draw the noteworthy that with the* lJLuiu in full view, with the , t .oleum treaties in dust nl'. pi dent Wilson can ta ; k l** i a “ League of Nations,'’ U| .ad tli*‘ aspirations of the into the channels if rwxiM.n of a corpse is not a Jrt.rpi '• for mundane powers, jj, t..-k w tli which President * i j,|, ,1 >;-:p!es in two contiiigalvanise dead oonpv bonds, t" clotho Lj s - jmd “ understandings,'' of diplomacy, with jug fort e of 'haw. E. ~f the world’s present misa,. .iiniiiied up in a pregnant *j 1( n.itions had become a law -Jr- -. Strong governments -tti with their tongues in A.. w II knowing that in the n-.rgpncy, in the moment of Limitv. the sword would prove than the pen. iw nal law was an academic ( , u! ,r.ot international, and it Its enactments were It s- ;ilde to compel respect of a railway oomL by-law * of an urban council. I • nals In Ino power B otfrml is for contempt of lntorn.itional disagreements, refill eonsequerces, were jt idjii'ted than any other {human altercation, im had foreseen the dilemma, id public just’Ye forged fit. m which was to replace tho lint ri ional vendetta, had J it. j« welled with good injiiit it had no Made. M«n----1 no effective substitute tom hand of private vengeance » “laws," but there were no ton were “courts,” hut there rap'll n. In given eases a Tight ho empanelled, but it MtT to comped the attendance wry witnesses, to unearth Vr<knc<*- no power to hale the ,to the dock. tho Kaiser appeared “in shinw" at successive crises in tho t'Kiiiep . there was no moans he the House of Hohenzolleirn a disturbance of the peace, jr.-caring despot talked of [jaunts,” first with France Kami afterwards with Great iifo were no means of bringalprit to trial for criminal sepius* the law of nations. When i -fizi d Kiao-chao under a poni. nt with China, there was (midi tin- theft. When at a iffxtron.e delicacy the same Foyer dispatched a gunboat. to wn was no jurisdiction to arnel menace to her peaceable t! .n Central Europe oast law bio tlu* winds and embarked I'oiispii acy for the overthrow «■ Britain, France, and Rus*>pirioiis and unprepared, to i i. I on behalf of Freedom—fitfully belonging to tlie armin’the civilised world. 'jken two years and a half to ini lf. f tive “ League of Ni-w-o-non to tlio Hun. To w nbl almost certainly W' I if the Grand Alliance, in- ? I’nitcd States of America, ■ forme.! operation when Geri" felon Btroke is to n golden “ might have been” speculation for the &CTOIK SACRED TASK. ► L reap the rich harvest r.f b? uf suffering, if our galls am not to have died in vain, ■iation- of the world’s free»b* la’d broad and deep and lk..m the subterranean intri»pi? of Nations must endure ad me ans to enforce its de■tipcll the observance, by na■and 'mall, of the ncknow- | list ice upon wtocst mankind depends, fcproblem, that confronts the ffrory nation who have not b>ir larger allegiance to huTorbe’ar? it insoluble is n lit despair. Sooner or later *** it or perish, mtion, the world must have Court, an intemaIBailev »o do justice between t'. to | reserve the world or■t iritv for good hehnv|fomiw>n wealth of nations. ■ vital need is satisfied we 'and'* no advance upon the toned futility of The Hague, i ta«k i waits the victors in b struggle. Theirs to refie ' boon of peace to war- ►: to ensure ns far as politibfe 'an. that the rattle of ■1 the rack of the rifle shall * disturb the symphonies of *E\"I THE I'IK ST STEP. ■d, i e coming victory of 1 die initial triumph of the "I Nations, should go ■f the great dreams of “ a tot M.ui, a Fedorati'>n of the lthc.l- great ideals to lie nt*bt is the first step? pk oi Nations, triumphant mn-t- compel ditfeirma-jb-ing ill iK>edfiil force to to its imperative doffi'torious Allies mu«t ron■[do*vn their arms only in ;• fr.vn.l and foes. The ex- _ tlii- Central Powers 1 , the wf iM-ldi. -t scheme of armed the world has seen, will ■ nif l ll, ‘ opportunity for the into K.ncrete terms of an *” through weary years of Jitim, of pence, a- a- salient **»irld settlement, let the U, l that the manufacture r “It'dl bo removed from .“dR. internationally con- I f fmi la ted. and confined ‘fv»r. «t limits -which in a i the menace of “big £l*t b-i deemed necessary I , I trade routes and' the _ •yont . »•>.. |n combination Jor.e, uon id lui.,m ore than . flic first symptom of Then let 'the Inter- . niib- permanto august judgment nations be referred. | iHarlks PILLEY.