The preliminary requirement,--elimination of the one formidable dynastic State in Europe,--has been spoken of.

Its counterpart in the Far East will cease to be formidable on the decease of its natural ally in Central Europe, in so far as touches the case of such a projected league.

The ever increasingly dubious empire of the Czar would appear to fall in the same category.

So that the pacific league's fortunes would seem to turn on what may be called its domestic or internal arrangements.
Now, the means of warlike enterprise, as well as of unadvised embroilment, is always in the last analysis the patriotic spirit of the nation.

Given this patriotic spirit in sufficient measure, both the material equipment and the provocation to hostilities will easily be found.