"I am interested in the League of Nations as a piece of machinery", declared Professor M. O. Hudson of the League's secretariat before an open meeting of the Woodrow Wilson club at the Union last night. "The Foreign Office system of European diplomacy has necessarily become obsolete with the development of an international public opinion. Headlines rule the world. With this development a number of international conferences such as the international Postal Conference, have been called from time to time. The last of these was the Washington Conference, and the most disappointing thing about this meeting was that it had to adjourn". The speaker stressed the importance of a permanent conference system and outlined the value of the league in this connection in settling the four great disputes which have arisen since the War. He emphasized the number of questions which the Washington Conference has left unsettled in connection with land armaments, submarine warfare, reconstruction, reparation, and prevention of plague.

In discussing domestic and foreign politics in connection with the League, Professor Hudson made a number of statements which he did not wish to have quoted. "It would be the worst misfortune which would happen to the cause of the League in the United States if it should become permanently a party issue". The meeting was well-attended and lasted over two hours.

Professor Hudson was attached to the American delegation to Versailles and was one of the authors of the allied treaty with Poland.