If the League to Enforce Peace had included England, France, Italy, and Russia--there would have been no war; for Germany would have seen at once that they would all be against her.

(2) Later, when the Czar sent the Kaiser a personal telegram proposing to submit their differences to some tribunal, a League to Enforce Peace would have prevented war.

And (3) when the question of the invasion of Belgium came up, every signatory to the treaty guaranteeing Belgium's integrity gave assurance of keeping the treaty--but Germany, and Germany gave an evasive answer.

A league would again have prevented a war--or put all the military force of all its members against Germany.
Throughout the conversation, which lasted about an hour, Sir Edward said more than once, as he has often said to me, that he hoped we should be able to keep the friction between our governments at the minimum.

He would regard it as the greatest calamity if the ill-feeling that various events have stirred up in sections of public opinion on each side should increase or should become permanent.