If this were done, we believe that America would ultimately
join the association. That accomplished, we do not care liow small and' how indefinite would be the obligations of each member to the others. The League would then be what it so lamentably fails to be to-day, the real. meeting-place of the nations, the great clearing-house into which all their international diffi- culties and frictions would naturally go. - The League is the greatest and most ambitious experiment of modern times, and the quickest way to kill it is to bind it down with the chains of formulae and documents. If it suc- ceeds, it will succeed by a spirit of international good will, and not by any written document. But this does not mean that -we wish to see nothing done to check the lamentable growth of armaments in Europe.
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