Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1920 — THE LEAGUE TO PREVENT WAR [ARTICLE]

THE LEAGUE TO PREVENT WAR

Every member of the league of nations solemnly agrees that it will never go to war without first having done one or another of two things, without either submitting the matter In dispute to arbitration, in which case it promises to lay all the documents and all the pertinent facts before that council; it consents that that council shall publish all documents and all the pertinent facts, so that all the world shall know them; that it shall be allowed six months in which to consider the matter; and that even at the end of the six months, if the decision of the council is not acceptable, it will still not go to war for three months following the rendering of the decision. It is provided in the covenant of the league of nations that any nation that disregards these solemn promises with regard to arbitration and discussion shall be thereby deemed ipso facto to have committed an act of war against the other members of the league and that there shall thereupon follow an absolute exclusion of that nation from communication of any kind with the members of the league. No goods can be shipped in or out; no telegraphic messages can be exchanged; there shall be no communication of any kind between the people of the other nations and the people of that nation. There is not a nation in Europe that can stand that for six months. Germany could have faced the armies of the world more readily than she faced the boycott of the world.