Neither the League of Nations nor the Disarmament Conference could possibly have arisen anywhere but in America. Perhaps you need to be secure in order to be an idealist, and it is American idealism, its immense good nature, its simplicity, its readiness to believe as well of others as of itself, which is at the back of both these efforts to cure the world of one its most invest- erate vices, or at least to assuage the worst of its ills. The weakness of the League of Nations is that its methods are too rigid for easy working and its powers too slight for its needs. So America, which begat the League and then deserted it, set to work in her truly practical and business way to improvise machinery for getting quick results for limited purposes. If the experiment succeeds, as it will succeed, she may go on to further conquests. But nothing is fixed, and she will be guided by events. This is not to rival the league; it is to supplement and assist it. There is need for the permanent machinery of pacification as well as for specific efforts to deal with particular questions.  -Manchester Guardian Weekl