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VISCOUNT GREY ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS Viscount Greys latest utterance on a league of nations represents the matured thought of a student of international affairs whose whole course in the incidents which culminated iu the war that devas ¬ tates the world today marked him as a man sincerly desiring of honorable enduring world peace peaceThat That ideal condition was rendered impossible of attainment by the ambitions and acts of one na ¬ tion which for generations has plotted to win a dominant place among the Powers that should make all other nations subservient to her and dependent on her tolerance for their existence The plan was based on the possession of overwhelming military force which was supplemented by a campaign of cunning intrigue whose ramifications we are only now beginning to understand and as long as it was harbored by its authors and tolerated by other na ¬ tions its menace hung like a thunder cloud over the pacific peoples of the world worldThat That it shall be forever impossible for such a de ¬ sign to be seriously contemplated by responsible rulers in the future is the object of the enemies of Germany in the war today and the attainment of that object presupposes the establishment of some means by which the reign of law may be made permanent The form that shall be taken by the instruments which must be forged to assure this reign of law this permanence of civilization uiiim perilled by the barburious strivings of dynasties eager to suppress liberty constitutes a subject re ¬ quiring the deepest reliection on the part of those to whom tiie direction of world affairs is confided confidedEvery Every domestic and international political rela ¬ tionship throughout the earth has already been pro ¬ foundly altered by the war The struggle to vic ¬ tory of the cause of justice will still further mod ¬ ify our preconceived notions of national duty Un ¬ der these cirmustances such products of experience and wisdom as Viscount Greys essay command the closest scrutiny from those who are unwilling to accept all his conclusions as well as from those who indorse his attitude and in this country where we have already forged and are now tempering the weapon of victory we must give thought to the morrow in which we shall be the guardians of earthwide peace New York Sun
