is how shall these colonies be administered. That they are
not now capable of self-government goes without saying.
The Australians and New Zealanders would doubtless wish
that the German colony in New Guinea should be taken over
by Great Britain. The South African English colonists will
probably seek the same result.

It would be too bad for Britain to yield to the urgings of
her daughters in this regard. She cannot afford to do it. It
will arouse at once the attack that she is exhibiting the same
land-grabbing propensities which have been charged to her
in the past.

There is no argument making more strongly for the estab-
lishment and maintenance of a league of nations in connec-
tion with this treaty than the need of a proper method of
providing for these German colonies. They should be
governed by an agency of the league of nations charged with
the duty of educating the natives, leading them on in the
paths of civilization and extending self-government to them
as rapidly as their fitness will permit. They will thus prove
to the world the equitable and just motives and aims of the
nations who frame the provisions of this epoch-making
treaty.

The earnest effort of the Jews of the United States to
induce our executive to remedy the intolerable condition of
their co-religionists in the backward countries of Europe has
often been met and defeated by the argument that our

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