Mr. Balfour, who followed Mr. Boner Law, commended President Wilson's
demand for some kind of a League of Nations, and his desire to establish it when Germany has been defeat.d. But Mr. Balfour urged with great force that a territorial rearrangement of Europe must precede a League of Nations if it is not to perpetuate old wrongs and promote new wars. Russia, Poland, the non-Germans in Austria, the Balkans, and the peoples in Turkey must be freed from alien rule, so that the League may have a clean slate to work upon. Mr. Balfour pointed the moral of the Bulgarian collapse by saying that we shall not be satisfied with pious professions from Germany or with supeificial ohanges in her despotic, system. Germany must learn in defeat to abandon her dreams of world-dominion before she can be admitted to a league of civilized nations. The Allies are fighting for civilization itself—something far bigger than mere national aims--and the vig.i00 is not yet won.
