Readers do not, perhaps, carry all the terms of the League of Nations in their head, and may be interested to know what Article X, on which President Wilson takes his stand, enjoins. Here it is:—
The members" of the League undertake to respect and preserve s: against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political dependence of all members of the League: In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression, the Council shall advise upon the—means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Obviously this is the one clause with which the League if it is to have real efficiency cannot dispense. Also obviously, if Congress is to be allowed to sit down and discuss any and every case of the article's application, and retain absolute freedom for' America to join, or not join, in enforcing it as she pleases, the League is no real League.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.