?
Nations do not like each other.

No plainer fact stares at us from the pages of history since the beginning.

Are we to sit down under this forever?
Why should we make no attempt to change this for the better in the pages of history that are yet to be written?
Other evils have been made better.

In this very war, the outcry against Germany has been because she deliberately brought back into war the cruelties and the horrors of more barbarous times, and with cold calculations of premeditated science made these horrors worse.

Our recoil from this deed of hers and what it has brought upon the world is seen in our wish for a League of Nations.