Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1920 — LEAGUE NEEDS U. S [ARTICLE]

LEAGUE NEEDS U. S

- wv ■ —wf ' St? ’ . Lloyd George Says It Will Fan Unless Backed by America. British Premier Cite* Work Already Done by Organization—Urges Disarmament. London, Dec. 23.—David Lloyd George, the prime minister, presiding at a luncheon given in the house of commons for the British and dominion delegates to the recent League* of Nations assembly In Geneva, declared the league would never achieve real progress until all the nations were represented. There could be no real peace, declared the prime minister, until competition in armaments ceased, and before disarmament was possible all the nations must be in the league, for all must march together. Mr. Lloyd George said he was glad to know that all were doing something. He asserted that if the Geneva assembly had existed In August, 1914. the war would have been impossible. He was sanguine there would be no obstacle to Germany’s admission to the league If* she manifested an intention to fulfill her obligations. There was no use laboring for the association of nations and for the establishment of peace, the prime minister declared, and on the other hand erecting great armaments in order to force other nations into a competition which had more to do starting the late war than almost any other individual, force. * Mr. Lloyd George said the nations could not take the risk of disarmament until every nation, was Included. It could be done only by agreement. Dis-, armament, he declared, was not a thing which could be done secretly and behind closed doors; is must be done in such a way that everyone kn«v, so that the agreement, once arrived at, would be respected. Mr. Lloyd George said all nations must reach a common agreement not to start again disastrous rivalry in armaments, which must Inevitably end •In a clash. -The league has already done much, the prime minister asserted. For one thing, it has raised the status of labor throughout the world, and the labor bureau was doing great things. The league’s most conspicuous work, he said, probably was the establishment of the International court of justice, which would have a very determining effect on international justice in the future. No League of Nations, however, cauld possibly be regarded as complete until the United States was included, Mr. Lloyd Georgy declared.