It sickens our senses to think of
another. We saw one conflict into which modern science brought
new forms of destruction in great guns, submarines, airships,
and poison gases. It is no secret that our chemists had
perfected, when the contest came to a precipitate close, gases
so deadly that whole cities could be wiped out, armies
destroyed, and the crews of battleships smothered. The public
prints are filled with the opinions of military men that in
future wars the method, more effective than gases or bombs, will
be the employment of the germs of disease, carrying pestilence
and destruction. Any nation prepared under these conditions, as
Germany was equipped in 1914, could conquer the world in a year.
"It is planned now to make this impossible. A definite plan has
been agreed upon. The League of Nations is in operation. A very
important work, under its control, just completed, was
participated in by the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State under
the Roosevelt administration. At a meeting of the Council of the
League of Nations, February 11, and organizing committee of
twelve of the most eminent jurists in the world was selected.
The duty of this group was to devise a plan for the
establishment of a Permanent Court of International Justice, as
a branch of the League. This assignment has been concluded by
unanimous action. This augurs well for world progress. The
question is whether we shall or shall not join in this practical
and humane movement.
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