Apr. 28.
Tae last mail brings a full report, in pamphlet form, of the conferences of delegates of Allied Societies for a League of Nations held in Paris and London last January and March respectively and it must be admitted that these records may cause many people to revise their vie of the League. On one point we are still unrepentant. That the world is even within measurable distance of the day when an international police force can be substituted effectively for private national armaments, we cannot bring ourselves to believe. And when the Conference in Tiondon was asked to resolve that the German fleet and all existing submarines should be handed over to the League as the nucleus of such a force, one reads with some relief that it rejected a scheme which could only have led to disappointment if not to discord. On the other hand, the resolutions generally show a strong practical sense of what can be done to lessen international friction and the chances of warfare.
The resolutions adopted during the eight days' discussion in Paris and the three in London are too numerous to be mentioned in detail. Generally speaking the London Conference revised, elaborated or pruned what was approved in Paris, and the subjects of resolution ranged from the establishment of an international Court of Justice, through improvement of Labour conditions to the care of uncivilized races and the education of peoples in the elements of democratic citizenship. In one important particular the Confer-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.