Great Britain, like so many of the other war weary nations of 1 sought to frame a new ideology peace based not upon a true appre-elation of the realities, of the in-but upon very but no less real hopes borne of the weariness of war anda realization of its futility, The Covenant of the League of, Nations was the instrument setting. forth what it was. then believed could be done. It was not accepted a8 a plan for future experimentation, ut rather as a Decalogue, which, was hoped, it would be possible to impose upon the nations of the world, Soverelgnty, which knows no sanctions, was ignored, oF, if it were pot It was thought that world pub-We' opinion would be sume lent to restrain a recalcitrant nation, Had It been a fact that world opinion could and would operate in the manner it was then thought, the League might have been a greater success than it has been, (That is written advisedly, for the League is not without some meed of success its somewhat variegated history.) But that belief alone was the one fon which the whole fabric of the 'Lengue was bound to fail, Tt is not true now, and may not be unfit humanity has undergone many radical changes In ite charac teristics, that public opinion, no matter how emphatically' expressed, can hope to have any restraining effect upon those who hold that good manners should courtesy to. great ings,
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