The League*

A Compendium of all That Can Be Said Against the United States

Pro-leaguers will find in this book a well-ordered defence of their faith, backed up by a long line of quotations from presidents, statesmen and politicians. Anti-leaguers will consider it as the acme of unreasoned prejudice, or will not consider it at all.

In general the book relates the part America played in forming the League and the part she has failed to play in backing it. It lays the blame of the appalling conditions prevalent in present-day Europe at America's door and impinges upon a series of facts which the author holds as damning the honor of the United States. The book contains a very clear if somewhat superficial account of the League's activities.

A few excerpts: "The League of Nations was defeated by a Senate which was overwhelmingly in favor of a league of nations."

"The League of Nations is a going concern. It has justified itself. It is not what it might have been had the United States entered it. Nor is the United States."

"Having made the conditions, the United States fails to enter under them."

"Our sole ground of objection to most of the activities carried on by the League is the fact that they are carried on by the League."

Referring to some provisions of the League, ". . . every argument of honor and policy required that the United States should hold fast to it."

The Author. Thomas H. Dickinson was for five years Chief of the Documentary Service of Mr. Hoover's American Relief Commission in Europe. During the Versailles Conference he was in Paris attending the economic councils. During 1921 and 1922 he traveled about Europe, studying social and economic conditions.

* THE UNITED STATES AND THE LEAGUE --Thomas H. Dickinson--Dutton ($2.00).