. Review of reviews and world's work . ospect we cannot endure. Mr. Wells reasons that if the League ofNations is to be a reality, it must have suf-ficient power to inquire into, restrain, andsuppress armaments on land and sea. Sucha world control of armaments implies somesort of pooling of the naval, military, and airforces of the world under some sort of worldcouncil in which the states of the world willbe represented according to their strengthand will. This, Mr. Wells admits, is goingbeyond a league. It is an approach to worldfederation. A world control of militarismWill lead to a world co
. Review of reviews and world's work . ospect we cannot endure. Mr. Wells reasons that if the League ofNations is to be a reality, it must have suf-ficient power to inquire into, restrain, andsuppress armaments on land and sea. Sucha world control of armaments implies somesort of pooling of the naval, military, and airforces of the world under some sort of worldcouncil in which the states of the world willbe represented according to their strengthand will. This, Mr. Wells admits, is goingbeyond a league. It is an approach to worldfederation. A world control of militarismWill lead to a world control of shipping andof the distribution of staples, if not to a gen-eral control of international trade. To con-firm this proposition, Mr. Wells refers tothe experience of the Allies in the war. closes his article on an optimistic note: From being a proposed addendum to human life, in the form of a court of jurists, the League of Nations has now become the outline of a broad and hopeful scheme for the reconstruction Feb.—6. LAYING THE KEYSTONE OF THE ARCH(From the Central Press Association, Cleveland) of international relationships upon a sound andenduring basis. It is a new world policy. It isa scheme that may inaugurate a new and hap-pier phase in the troubled history of at every step it demands sacrifices of pre-possessions. There is no good in clinging to ideals of aworld of unrestricted free trade and laissez faireif the world controls of the league of nations areto come into existence; it is equally unreasonableto dream of schemes of a self-contained BritishEmpire, taxing the foreigner and economicallyhostile to all foreigners, including those of France,Italy and the United States. We must cease to think imperially as we havehad to cease thinking parochially; and we mustthink now in terms of the peace of the League of Nations points straight to a pool-ing of empires, and it is no good blinking thefact. And, since it cannot operate in an a
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