President Roosevelt, in interpret-Ing the trends of policy in the world side his own country, is probably.
at all surprised that his remarks have been. received with some as-perily. Indeed his reference to the Atting of the shoe indicated a readiness to meet rejoinders. Yet he has done a service in drawing attention to the plain implications of the sabre-rattling to the sound of which national morale has been invited to recovery. At the moment the world witnessing an interesting exposure of the futility of the armed argument in conflict with the commonsense of free nations. A good deal of latitude hag been allowed to the exponents of that argument, partly as the re-ult of a healthy reaction against the sometimes over-unciuous claims made by extreme partisans. of the League and partly out of the vietion thet precipitate opposit might accentuate the evil. Now it evident that the League's basic pri ples are stronger than the League itself and President Roosevelt has a lively sense of the significance of that discovery, especially in, clation fo the pressure of economic. focis, Danger in the future lies not so much the possibility that the Presidant's dictum will fail to find acceptance fas in the risk that that acceptance may not be treated in a proper spirit tolerance. In. voicing the view of civilization, the nations assembled at Geneva have to guard. themselves against vindictiveness and against any expression of moral superiority. These considerations are particularly pertinent just now when the travail of the Ttalisn people—whatever wrong their leaders" policy may have} wrought—deserves no less sympathy than the admitted grievances of
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