. Review of reviews and world's work . mth and* ona generosity of the Italian naturewill respond to some plan for making goodneighbors and permanent friends of the SouthSlavs who wish to have outlets upon the Dal-matian coast. Some formula for cooperation,to dispel danger of rivalry, is what that situ-ation requires. The same thing is true ofsome of the disputes that are now involvingPoland, Bohemia, Ukrainia, Rumania and allof the Balkan countries as regards preciseboundaries and other matters affecting theirfuture status. A complete general under-standing on the part of the larger Allies giv


. Review of reviews and world's work . mth and* ona generosity of the Italian naturewill respond to some plan for making goodneighbors and permanent friends of the SouthSlavs who wish to have outlets upon the Dal-matian coast. Some formula for cooperation,to dispel danger of rivalry, is what that situ-ation requires. The same thing is true ofsome of the disputes that are now involvingPoland, Bohemia, Ukrainia, Rumania and allof the Balkan countries as regards preciseboundaries and other matters affecting theirfuture status. A complete general under-standing on the part of the larger Allies givesa basis of powerful influence by virtue ofwhich the conflicting claims of minor statescan be adjudicated. Furthermore, it becomesthe obvious duty of the group of major Alliesso to determine the bounds of militarismwithin the European countries that it will bevirtually out of the question for countries likePoland, Ukrainia, Czecho-Slovakia or thegreater Serbia to assert their claims againstone another by war, rather than to resort to. (Q Uridenvood & Undenvood, X. V. MARSHAL FOCH AND ALLIED PREMIERS WHO WILL DECIDE THE DESTINIES OF NATIONS (This photograph was taken Deccmher 7 in the courtyard of No 10 Downing Street, London, the home ofPf^mier Lloyd George, where Marshal Foch and some of the Allied leaders met to discuss the Allied terms to beproposed at the Peace Conference. From left to right, are. Marshal Foch, Premier Clemenceau of France, PremierLloyd George of England, Premier Orlando of Italy, and Baron Sonnino, the Italian Foreign Secretary.) THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 119 arbitration or to the machinery for settlingdisputes that the League of Nations willcreate. The difficulties to be faced are sonumerous that they would be altogether baf-fling but for the determination of democraticpeoples everywhere to have orderly settlementof disputes, together with the power for goodthat the Allied nations possess in the fact oftheir own fundamental agreement. As typical of what


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