LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO London, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY, New York 1917 The Edinburgh Review JULY, 1917 No. 461 NATIONAL FEDERATIONS AND WORLD I. Bodies Politic and their Governments. By BASIL EDWARD HAMMOND. Cambridge University Press. 1915. 2. Recueil de Rapports sur les différents points du Programmeminimum. Published for the Organisation Centrale pour une Paix Durable by Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1916. 3. The Morality of Nations. By C. DELISLE BURNS. London University Press. 1915. 4. Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty. By HAROLD J. LASKI. Yale University Press. 1917. WHEN WHEN President Wilson called upon Congress to declare a state of war with Germany, he justified his action to his countrymen and to the world by the lofty disinterestedness of its motive. This was 'to vindicate the principles of 'peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and action as will henceforth ensure the observance ' of those principles.' The conditions on which alone the United States would become a party to such a concert he had already defined in his Address to the Senate of the 22nd of January a statement of his ideal aims to which enormous VOL. 226. NO, 461. All rights reserved. B |