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Thought whicli strike a very id observe os current evenis in the woridi change and stormin hicli, live. Whendioted them in the last year of the great war obiter Scripta Chapina and Hall,
1919 the dominant faet was that a war o Classes Was bout o supersede the war of ations. 'ohe Russian Revolutio had sentis thrit os expectationthrough the democrae of the human raee There was coming on Psaid ne Socia Orde a deepanyas idem an in the historno civilisation. woyears have passed And ali thes things seem to have increased tensold. Russian revolution has been fol-lowed by that o Germany and of Austria. ing-
donis, Constitutions Chiarches, eopte are in Chaos. Above ali, the relations of the great and the malinations os Capital and of Labour, of trade an taxation, of the State and the citiZen, Seem abolitrio Convulse civilisation. I neverrioined the early enthusiasm for a Leagueli Nations. I seeme to me tot premature-impoS-
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sibi in the actua mora condition o nations. In Iay, 1918, I rote laus genera and eadesul Leaque of ations ill neverte formedinti the conversion os mankin to a pure mora an religiolis forna of hie. It was the dream Dan eloquent professor ho oused grand opes in the eople-into whicli praetica statesmen ere drawn and linostforcessito tali pari. In the goiden age of Democracythe coo sense of politi a Wisdom is Wept Way. Could nations or in harmon whils old hatreds, ambitions fears, jealousies, an greed reniatne un-tamedi Socia froni euring them, the waria vastly stimulate them. IVhen, after an orsi os glorification, amiabilities, an rhetorio the ations at ast me in conferene in Paris, the old passion and destres ere benti maStery. The world was hept in the dark hiis for sivmonilis the so- alle deliberations en on. Theywere reali disputes, Changes, CompromiseS, atherthan deliberations. The grandiose Covenant of the President illi his Fourteen Potnis as an eademicprogramme illi no statesmanshi os coneret knowledge and foresight bellinil it. As applied to the realfacts of the worid, it neede incessant modifieation, reSerVRtionS, XCeptions, herein the splendidenthusiasm of r. Wilson a continuali basile bydiplomatisis, Wh seeme to e sin a longue that he hardi understood. The statesmen and the oldierso France insiste On strategie varantees Brita in
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was bound o laim separate membershi for her Dominions and had to kee Ireland Egypt Syria, and India out of the self-determinatio formula Italywas keen to the oldiu doctrine of grab Japanwas ut for Paeisio fland an a good stice of hina. In the naidst os these ver human Power the resident stood for internationa Brotherhood He had ahard time oscit l
Clearly the oni real statesman there astur Prime Minister. His energy, rapi intelligenee, Versatilily, sense of realities, patience, self-command an de-batin poWer ver an ove again saved the situationan dominaled the Conferen e . He ad the resident se the hard facts that stood efore his visions. He ad the Tiger: seel that soldier must notoverride politi a necessities. He withstoo Italian bandit an Polisti, Roumanian, and ungarianambition. His obviolas ignorande of the old Balance of Power, an his fortunate innocenee o diplomaticvice made him the prope moderatori a ne Europe and the childhood of oun nations These insmade him a completet master of the Consereno as Bismare ever a a Berlin. It is a missortune that tr. Lloyd George is impulsive almos to much the opportunisi the too-Willin servant of the democraeyhe loves an froni hieliae rose Withat he is the
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as a retentiolis amateur in State-erast He came
Νexi, e refuse to accepi the co-operatio of X- perienee me opposed' him in party, and even os influentia me of his oWn party. He asse texto aetas an autocrat an Europe a long ready to accepthim a Dictator He absente himself rom his prope duties and his o vnseople so that for monilis he a his authority to spea sor America passingaway into bitte opposition and distrusi. Hesdragged the unwield Covenant into the reaiy, wasting
hesion, and almos rished hereb a renewal of the war. inalty in the Conserenoe, his ignorance of the European imbrosilio an his constant change os plan redueed the actio of the Powers to pathy, inconsistenetes, proerastination, and discredit. I am no judging oodro Wilso as an America statesman. He is learly one of the obtestenthusiast in the public Leader of the worid. His vlew of the dominant authorit os a President of the Republic is entiret right an his proii insisten eo unit os contro is a true gospe in these days ofanarchie inconstanc an servisit to very gus os opinion As an American resident hecis a orthysuccessor of Washington, an for the simple and localised problems of the Republica was almos an
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idea Chies Executive. Blit he he came to ecast Europea Civilisation, he was the Professor theessayist the dealistae ever as andae undertook atas sor hichae had n experiende, and in hichae was a fauit He is a great orator, ut nolebater agreat moralist, reacher inspirer-biit, ke Demosthenes, Cicero, o Burhe, he falle whenae broughthis dealism to compos the wori aster an aWfui Warandis et more sinister revolution Idealisis ruinthings hen the meddie illi Europea convulSionS,as the sar Alexander, Ioseph ΙΙ. an many more have found Wilson has gone farrio uin Europe.
A the moment of the Armistic the victorious ΡΟWer Were aramount masters, and the Republicand iis resident ere achnowledge a their Head. Τhey could have made-thenought to have made conclusive Peace illi the enem in November, or at latest in December. Instead of that the wasted two
in hieli Wilso figure a the Gran Pacificator. In cominit Europe he was bound to how that he had unite ali parties at home, as didiloy George, and that he fuit represented the Republic. e took
his ord for t-tili the crasti came, like an aeroplane when the pilo has tost control. The traged Was
In the endi 1918 the one thing urgent was Peaee. Instea of mahin peaee, Wilson led the nations and
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thei rulers o discus his vague scheme of a PadificLeague, asci the Conserenue ere an InternationalCongressi Iurisis. He en abolit tryin to indoctrinale the public o Europe illi the dealism os Peace uel a in America he ought to indoctrinate the citigens illi the Idealism, firs of eutralit and the of War o save Democrasty I there is onetesso in strategy the war has taught it is the necessit of suddenness, of rapidity, of Unity, of seerecythe supreme power of apoleon Frederich the Great, Cromwell, and Foch. ut a dominated by Wilson, the lessons Ofieae learned by the Conferenoes ere-dilator discussion change of plan, impraeticabie promiseS, postpone decisions Europe America,
Is by the oubie traged of Wilson ' ignoranee, ObStinacy, presumption, and his physical collapse the League os attons is notoet dead, it is postpone at
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The War, an many documents book and revel tions os ur time, have deest change the estimateos rederio the Great hieli Carlyle in the fixties
the latest studies of the Prussian in is the Lis by
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more hiasilin life has castri dow of late. Again, soland criticism agrees illi me in holdin that hersupreme iit are in her earlier, tesser, an ruralromanees, no in the reater stories of her amotis
pendent furve of ur chaoti conditio by one hois at onem religiolis reforme and a social philosopher. It is not for me to analys the essay on St. Paul the Chiarches o Rome and of England Cardinat Newman Dr Gore, and personat furvivat. ut the Dein sunSparin reVie o current Democrasty Patriotism, Birth-rate, the Future os urinaee, must commandattentio an rebuke the popular Optimism os politicians and ournalisis ho sive by leasin constituent an readers. The motio of this book froni Euripides, s-σκληρ αληθη. uehis it is, indeed 'mahar saying. In such times as Urs, What we antare true things, howeve hard It is the only hance