The literary digest . ar-antee its perpetuation. 2. Specific phraseol-ogy that will give theUnited States exclusivecontrol over all its in-ternal and domesticaffairs. 3. Such limitations aswill make it possible forthe United States to with-draw from the League inthe event of necessity ordesirability. E TO ENFORCE PEACE. —Darling in the New York Tribune. Special weight is attached by the Republican press to thecriticisms of Senator Philander C. Knox, who was Secretary ofState under President Taft. His speech in the Senate againstthe League constitution, declares the Boston Transcript (Rep.),wil
The literary digest . ar-antee its perpetuation. 2. Specific phraseol-ogy that will give theUnited States exclusivecontrol over all its in-ternal and domesticaffairs. 3. Such limitations aswill make it possible forthe United States to with-draw from the League inthe event of necessity ordesirability. E TO ENFORCE PEACE. —Darling in the New York Tribune. Special weight is attached by the Republican press to thecriticisms of Senator Philander C. Knox, who was Secretary ofState under President Taft. His speech in the Senate againstthe League constitution, declares the Boston Transcript (Rep.),will change votes ia the Senate, change outside opinion, and 14 The Literary Digest for March 15, 1919 change the course of the world. The League in its proposedform, said Senator Knox, would divide the world into two greatarmed camps, breed wars, and leave us bound and helpless. Hewarned the nation particularly against the effect of excludingthe Central Powers: I have already pointed out that the covenant provides for. TWO VOTES FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. —Knott in the Dallas News. three sorts of states: first, signatories of the covenant; sec-ondly, protocol states, and thirdly, outcast states, which I takeit are the Central Powers and their allies. Now it is unnecessary to labor an argument to show that theinevitable result of outlawing the Central states will be to drivethem more closely together for mutual self-protection, and thatthis in turn will make the formation of a second League ofNations almost an assured certainty. It may well be that thissecond league will not at the outset be constituted with all theformalities which mark the one we have under consideration,but in all human probability such a league will be somehowformed, by informal understanding or otherwise, and when soformed will bid for the adherence to it of neutral states. Wewould thus have in no distant future two great leagues of nations,ivhich will become two great camps, each preparing for a newand g
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