Ihe gradual awakening to the truth has been a painful process to thousands. They see tht not only did this war not end war, it is the possible prelude to an era of wars, and those of an_increasingly horrible description. That the Kaiser was not hanged was re-grottable, but could be endured. That the Germans cannot pay for the war is disappointing, but it was never completely believed that they could. That with all our enemies in the dust we should still be continually apprehensive of imminent war is intolerable and hardly to be endured. It was to be expected that men, disillusioned with the mock League of Nations, should look about them for means to prevent war.
What the League of Nations Union is attempting and what is being advocated by other people is worthy of some little attention. The League of Nations Union is an organization to advance the idea embodied in its title. It labours under the heavy disadvantage of a sort of official blessing from the Government, which is a very oppressive handicap to any organization genuinely desirous of abolishing war. Its prime mistake is the claim that the League of Nations is a tremendous success.
Some Startiina 'lRrempns.
True it admits that there are wars going on all over the place, many of them instigated by members of the League, but there ara always plausible reasons for these wars that any sensible person will accept. That the Wrexham Town Council sanctioned the flying of a flag on the local. town hall on January 10, that being the birthday of the League, and that "at Hyde, Cheshire, no public meeting was arranged on the famous 10th but the Major availed himself of the opportunity offered by the Monthly Meeting of the Town Council on that date to remind the Council that this was the first birthday of the League of Nations" can be set against any regrettable omission we stop war, and shows, at any rate, that the League of Nations Union is achieving something.
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