Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be