CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16411, 3 January 1919, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE ALLIES AND THE PEACE CONFERENCE. TO THE tDITOB OF "XH* FRESS." Sir, —In your article to-day, you say: "It is natural enough that M. Clemenceau's declaration in favour of 'the balance of power' should arouse adverse comment m America, and somo uneasiness in Britain." I respectfully fail to 6ee this. What is the value of a League of Nations, unless it has the power to keep the peace? How can it havo that power, unless it has an army and navy? What is the value of the verdict of the Supremo Court, unless it has power, to enforce its verdicts? President Wilson, wlien_ he was leaving the wharf at New York, said, he hoped ho would be able to smash militarism, and so ho may, in a manner, and gp back again. But he leaves ClemenSeau in France, with the Germans glaring over the fence, getting ready to attack him again, and is not quite bo comfortable. But so long sis Wilson keeps a powerful army and navy ready he need not worry, whether he calls it a League of Nations or a balance of power. Tho fact i«, this is a world of force, run by force —and Benjamin Kidd's work, on the "Science of Power" —when it lias once been read, can be left on the shelf in the dust. — Yours, etc., JOSHUA LITTLE. [Wo are afraid our correspondent misapprehends tho meaning of the term tiio balance of power."—Ed. "Tho Press."]