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For delays in delivering magazines, owing to war conditions of transportation and mail service, it is necessary to ask readers of THE WORLD COURT to make patriotic allowance. IT VICTORY! VICTORY! T was necessary that German militarism should win the war quickly if it were to be won at all. On quick and overwhelming striking power the whole system of military preparedness in Europe was built. Germany's first strokes took her farther than any others toward victory, but not far enough. That system is a colossal failure. Instead of winning, Germany has lost the war. True, her suffering vassals, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria-Hungary were compelled to surrender first. But pleading Germany could get only a surrender-armistice, one which would, in President Wilson's diplomatic phrase, "leave the United States and the powers associated with her in a position to enforce any arrangements that may be entered into and to make a renewal of hostilities on the part of Germany impossible." Thus victory over mili tarism in this war is so plain that generations of men and women and children, not alone in Germany, but throughout the world, will not forget its lessons. Victory over Kaiserism is equally plain. plain. Kaiserism is another name for that autocracy which deified a king at the head of a state system of business that knew no morality save its own material ends. People see now, observes an irreverent doughboy, what a joke, really, this king business is! The procession of departing Tzars and Kings lengthens Nicholas II, Constantine, Ferdinand and Boris, Kaiser William, Em-` peror Karlas democratic spirit everywhere rises to proclaim liberty and independence of men and nations. "The object of the war is attained," said President Wilson in announcing to Congress the terms of armistice which ended the war November 11, "the object upon which all free men had set their hearts; and attained with a sweeping completeness which even now we do not realize." con "Armed imperialism," he tinued, "such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany, is at an end, its illicit ambitions engulfed in black disaster. Who will now seek to revive it? The arbitrary power of the military caste of Germany, which once could secretly and of its own single choice disturb the peace of the world, is discredited and destroyed. "And more than that-much more than that has been accomplished. The great nations which associated themselves to destroy it have now B definitely united in the common purpose to set up such a peace as will satisfy the longing of the whole world for disinterested justice, embodied in settlements which are based upon something much better and more lasting than the selfish competitive interests of powerful states.” The proud share of the United States in military victory in this world-war has been marked by willingness to cooperate in furnishing what the Allies said they needed most, whether it be money, food, supplies, machines, ships or fighters in the field under unified command. In the diplomatic victory necessary to secure from the war conditions that shall make for peace with justice among nations, the United States may claim for President Wilson the leading share. A PERMANENT VERSAILLES COUNCIL OTH military and political unity among the Allies and the United States were obtained through the Supreme War Council meetings at Versailles. Indeed, in the inter-Allied group of cooperative councils or boards of control successfully organized to win the war it may be truthfully said that practical League of Nations machinery is already established. Whether control of shipping, or food, or war purchases came first is not especially important; the fact is that never has there been anything like so vast an organization for controlling the world's resources. Of highest importance has been the pooling of mercantile credit over and above the placement of loans among the Associated Nations. Control of news service has been less centralized but none the less apparent. Until recently the military, naval, mercantile, financial and economic cooperation, involved in continental warfare, the blockade and isolation of Germany, was chiefly noted. But in the reference of pleas for armistice to the Supreme War Council, duly concluded by military chiefs in the field, the supreme political services of that body are manifest. It seems to be clear that this cooperative body-made up of the premiers |