Australia, and elsewhere to know that the best service we can render them is to continue to be ourselves, as they also wish to be themselves; for there can be no effective international spirit except as there are strong nations that are ready and determined to respect the rights of others because they are able to defend their own. I wish to acknowledge the generous permission of the editor of the North American Review to make use in this volume of articles which have appeared in its pages. The seventh chapter was originally delivered as an address before the American Bar Association. For convenience of reference some important documents have been appended to the text of this volume, supplementing those printed in the author's previous book on "Present Problems in Foreign Policy." DAVID JAYNE HILL. CONTENTS I DISILLUSIONMENT REGARDING THE LEAGUE . II THE UN-AMERICAN CHARACTER OF THE League III THE PRESIDENT'S HOSTILITY TO THE SENATE IV THE STRUggle of the Senate for its Prerogatives II CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE ARMISTICE III THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS IV EX-SENATOR ROOT'S LETTER TO SENATOR LODGE V THE SENATE's ReservaTIONS OF NOVEMBER 19, 1919 VI THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER TO SENATOR HITCHCOCK AMERICAN WORLD POLICIES I DISILLUSIONMENT REGARDING THE LEAGUE CONSIDERED vaguely and abstractly, the expression a "League of Nations" seems not only innocent but promising of great and desirable results. The prejudice thus created in its favor, coupled with possibilities, predictions, and promises regarding the suppression of war and the permanent establishment of peace, has won for those who have proposed, and are now urging the nation to accept, the Covenant of the League of Nations elaborated at Paris a widespread, an earnest, and without doubt a sincerely conscientious following of adherents. That the enthusiasts of this persuasion should resent opposition to this proposal is not unnatural. To them any criticism of it is like assailing virtue or denying the precepts of religion. Unable to perceive any other excuse for opposition, they are easily induced to set down even the moderate critics of so holy an enterprise as either blind bigots, narrow chauvinists, or selfish partisans. If the faith of these advocates of a League of Nations were well grounded, if the plans proposed were likely to be really effective, if peace were the one great and only |