ABSTRACT
President Wilson's declaration on May 22nd at the dinner of the League to Enforce Peace may well mark a decisive point in the history of the modern world. No utterance since the war began compares with it in overwhelming significance to the future of mankind. The most damnable thing people could do with their strength would be to use it for purely national purposes. As surely as the earth turns on its axis, a new balance of power would be set up to offset people, and a new race of armaments incited. Mr. Wilson's speech means that he has done some real thinking on the problem of national defense. His conclusion is that of a growing body of people in all the important countries of the world. It is that security cannot be had by any one nation alone, no matter how well armed it is. Security cannot be had by force divided among "sovereign" nations.
