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.Lit ... ..-..ft. .-- ft' n,Ktl,.j 2!. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 1, 1920. LEAGUE WORLD HOPE OF PEACE, SAYS BALFOUR future Dark If Reservations Are Made Would Kill Fruits of Allied Victory. By RT. HON. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR. lord Pmlrtmit PHry ConnoU, n-Prhm Minuter, x-Forelm Mlnliter, ex- Peaoe (From Hte ArntUttce Tf Speech.) London. Jan. 31. The league of nations hat had many critics, but I am not aware that, among the mul titude of criticisms that have been offered, and suggestion makes its ap pearance for finding a substitute for that organization which we desire to see entrusted. I admit, with the great ta.k of preserving the peace of the world. Those who criticize the league of nations have no substitute for the league of nations. They are prepared, it seems, for the civilized world to go on in the future, as it has gone on in the past, oscillating between those scenes of violence and sanguinary disturbance and the in toivals in which great and ambitious nations file up their armaments for a new effort. To me such an ideal arrears to be absolutely intolerable, nd I am not prepared, seriously, to discuss with any man what the fu ture of the international relations should be unless he is prepared eith er to accept in some form or another tl" league of nations, or to tell me v.bTf substitute he proposes for it. Tbere are those who think that the horrors of the last five years v.ilj cure mankind for an indefinite series of fenerations from any repe tition of those abominations. Well. I think it is true that not in my life time, at all events, will mankind willingly plunge again into the abyss from which they have been with such difficulty extricate. But, after all, we have to think not merely of the next few years. We have to cast cur eyes forward and think of the fate of those who are now young and the fate of their children, and, again, of their children. Memories are Short. The weight of misfortune once thrown aside is apt soon to be for gotten, and you may depend upon !t that if we let the critical moment pass, if we permit the instant at which all mankind is conscious of wha it is that war means,- we shall have vasted one of the greatest op portunities that heaven ever gave mankind. Critics Say Impracticable. But we are told that the project, however well meaning, or however beneficial, however consistent with all that is great in mortality, has this one fatal disadvantage. They tell you it is imoracticable. "Human nature," say these critics, "never changes. The world has always suffered from wars. What has been will be; the future must resemble the past, and war, which we have never succeeded in escaping hitherto, will dog our footstep? to the end of time." i AH that I ask these critics of the league of nations is that, if they can find no substitute for the machinery which we propose, they will at all events, throw themselves into the task of making it work if they can, and that they will go forward in a ' spirit of hopefulness and faith con scious of the difficulties, recognizing all the obstacles in their path, and will nevertheless say: "That is the path which we must pursue." Two Conditions Necessary. But there are two conditions at least which must be fulfilled if the league of nations is to be a success. The league of nations provides the machinery, but machinery without motive power, a body without a soul, is utterly useless, and behind the machinery, if the league of nations is to do all that it ought to do, must be the motive power derived' from the wills of the peoples of the world, and their action must, be founded on the common conscience. That is the first condition. Another con dition is that all the powers, and more especially the great powers, on whose action so much in the near fu ture must inevitably depend, should take an equal share of the burden, which I do not for a moment deny that the league of nations is going to throw upon them. If the de scription I have given of what the league of nations may be has the slightest truth in it, do you suppose results so tremendous can be at tained without some risk and some effort? Of course they cannot, and all the great nations responsible for this great undertaking should ac cept the same risk and be prepared to make the same effort.. If one of. us begins to make reser vations I confess that I think the future of the league of nations is dark indeed, for the reservations that one great nation makes will be copied Inevitably by others. The vhn1 tense of eaualitv of effort will be thrown aside; solidarity will be dissolved. Great statesmen will look more and more to the narrower in terests which influence public opin ion More and more they will turn their eyes away from that common object which all must pursue in com mon, and for wnicn all must De pre pared to make the same sacrifice, Therefore, I venture to say to any friends of mine in any country who are considering their responsibility at this great moment of the world's historv that they ought clearly to understand that unless they are pre pared to bear an equal share in an aual task, they are threatening with ultimate dissolution the whole of that new system which all of us, in common with the great nations, must sincerely desire to see work effectually. 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