I9I53 The League to Efiforce Peace 



Germany will at least be willing to pay the indemnifications 

 asked for. 



In June there was held at Philadelphia a conference 

 called by Mr. Taft, President Lowell, and others to 

 develop a scheme submitted shortly before by 

 Hamilton Holt, which took the form of "The League 

 to Enforce Peace." Because of previous engage- Can pecrr 

 ments I could not attend, and I objected to the word *''"" 

 "enforce," because in the nature of things peace 

 cannot be enforced. Nevertheless, taking the view 

 that the sole objective was peace, and every movement 

 toward that end should be welcomed, I joined the 

 society as one of its original members. 



In any event — whatever the name or definition 

 of the effort — the future would determine its sub- 

 stance, the ultimate ideal being a community of 

 peoples with the rough edges of assertive nationality 

 smoothed away and replaced by "a decent respect 

 for the opinions of mankind." The essentials of the 

 plan were later accepted by the President and formed 

 a basis for the much-discussed "League of Nations" 

 which through his insistence was incorporated in the 

 Treaty of Versailles. There the statement concern- 

 ing enforcement reappeared as Article X, "the heart 

 of the covenant" according to Mr. Wilson, but treated 

 b}^ his opponents as the chief stumbling block in the 

 way of acceptance by the United States Senate. 



During the summer of this year, in connection EsusPark 

 with my lectures at the Colorado State Normal 

 College at Greeley, Castle and I motored up the 

 rugged canyon of the Little Thompson River to 

 Estes Park, a great rock-walled glade on the north 

 side of Long's Peak. Here in 1901 Mrs. Jordan and 

 I had spent some delightful days in company with a 



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