principle that, until a victorious result gives security that
the world shall not again be drenched in blood through the
insanely selfish policy of a military caste ruling a deluded
people intoxicated with material success and power, there
will be no peace.

The platform is not a program to stop the present war.
It looks to a treaty to be adopted at or after its close. Its
purpose is to enforce deliberation, impartial investigation
and judgment of a cause of international quarrel before
hostilities. It does not seek to enforce the decision after it
is rendered; but by making clear to the threatening nations
and to the world what the real issue is, and what an impartial
Tribunal thinks about it, the enforced procedure and the
necessary delay will prevent most wars.

To make the platform work, the eight or nine great
Powers should join the League. The weaker nations will
then be glad to secure the benefit of its protection. Will
the great belligerent Powers join? Lord Grey and Mr.
Asquith of Great Britain, M. Briand of France, and Dr.
Bethmann-Hollweg of Germany are representative of them.
They have approved the principles of the League. Lord
Grey says that the war should not end without it. President

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