Enforced peace; . topics; namely,The platform, Practicability of the LeagueProgram, American Interests Affected by theLeague Program, and Plans for Giving E£Eectto the League Program. One session was setapart for questions and discussions by delegates,while the addresses at the closing dinner dealtwith the broader aspects of the League program. By common consent the list of addresses atthis dinner was conceded to be one of the bestever heard at a public dinner in Wilsons address in particular, whichwas read with profound interest throughout the 12 ENFORCED PEACE world, was
Enforced peace; . topics; namely,The platform, Practicability of the LeagueProgram, American Interests Affected by theLeague Program, and Plans for Giving E£Eectto the League Program. One session was setapart for questions and discussions by delegates,while the addresses at the closing dinner dealtwith the broader aspects of the League program. By common consent the list of addresses atthis dinner was conceded to be one of the bestever heard at a public dinner in Wilsons address in particular, whichwas read with profound interest throughout the 12 ENFORCED PEACE world, was a notable utterance. It was theformulation of a new and nobler conception ofworld statesmanship—a Declaration of HimianRights dest ned to live in history. Taken together the papers and addresses pre-sented at the first annual assemblage cover thesubject of the League to Enforce Peace programvery fully. They will be found, grouped accord-ing to general topics, in the succeeding pages. Charles Frederick THOMAS RAEBURN WHITE Member Executive Committee, League to Enforce Peace CHAPTER II THE PLATFORM The opening session of the first annual assem-blage of the League to Enforce Peace on the morn-ing of May 26, 1916, was devoted to The Plat-form. The first paper on this general topic by Thomas Raeburn White, of Phil-adelphia, as follows: THE LEAGUE PROGRAM The present war has demonstrated that existing in-ternational institutions are unable to restrain the rush ofnational ambition bent upon reaUzing its ends by an ap-peal to arms. The cause of this failure was not theweakness of international law, but lay in the fact that nomachinery existed by which nations could be forced tosubmit their disputes to international courts or boards,of conciliation. Competent means for peaceable adjustment were athand, but because there was no power to compel theiruse the greatest war in history Ims swept over Europeand has carried desolation and sorrow into every a
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