Ten years hence, perhaps sooner, both groups of Powers as they exist at present will have fallen.

Other constellations will have appeared and become dominant.

The explosive power of unsolved questions will continue to take effect and within a measurable space of time again blow up the world.
Mr.Wilson, who evidently was acquainted with the programme of the Pact of London, though not attaching sufficient importance to the national difficulties, probably hoped to be able to effect a compromise between the Italian policy of conquest and his own ideal policy.

In this connection, however, no bridge existed between Rome and Washington.

Conquests are made by right of the conqueror--such was Clemenceau's and Orlando's policy--or else the world is ruled on the principles of national justice, as Wilson wished it to be.