A world in perplexity . plomats as Talleyrand, Met-ternich, Castlereagh, von Humboldt, and von Nessel-rode. This congress concluded its work the ninth dayof June, 1815, and these illustrious sovereigns andstatesmen returned to their several kingdoms to con-tinue fighting as nations have always fought, and asthey are still fighting today. How strange, how sad,how humiliating it is that the efforts of the thousandsof noble men and women who have given their bestand highest endeavors to prevent war and to promotepeace, have met with so little success! * If Europe could exhibit so broad and libera
A world in perplexity . plomats as Talleyrand, Met-ternich, Castlereagh, von Humboldt, and von Nessel-rode. This congress concluded its work the ninth dayof June, 1815, and these illustrious sovereigns andstatesmen returned to their several kingdoms to con-tinue fighting as nations have always fought, and asthey are still fighting today. How strange, how sad,how humiliating it is that the efforts of the thousandsof noble men and women who have given their bestand highest endeavors to prevent war and to promotepeace, have met with so little success! * If Europe could exhibit so broad and liberal astatesmanship a century ago, why should not the in-tervening century, so full of progress in all the otheressentials of civilization, have produced a statesman-ship that would have bound the nations of Europe,through their mutual interests, so closely together thatthe war of 1914 would not have been possible? Thisquestion may be pondered long, but in vain. The gunsof 1914, 1915, 1916 have given a frightful demonstra-. Vai7i Efforts for Peace 63 tion that statesmanship and diplomacy were impotentin 1914. That impotence was a result of separate andselfish national development.— A Conclusive Peace/by Chaiies Fremont Taylor, pp. 36, 37. Conflicting Peace Terms One of the great difficulties in maintaining peaceamong the nations is that they want peace on termsupon which they cannot agree — terms that will se-cure to each nation the advantages for which each isfighting. Germany wants a lasting peace/ says the Reichs-tag; France, a beneficent peace, says Poincare; Brit-ain, a * peace that will secure . . liberty and inde-pendence, unthreatened by militarism, and that willredress the cruel wrong done Belgium, says Sir Ed-ward Grey. Thus they all seek true peace. So they fight for peace. They will fight, theydeclare, until true peace comes. ... Is there one pagein all history that can show that real peace amongdeveloped freemen has been reached in that way? Isthere any rational a
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