Duties of a State.

Like doctors of medicine, the doctors of peace must inevitably come up against the issue of prevention or cure. From page 10 cure of war-disputes they will march towards prevention of causes. Many questions will be asked. Is a nation-wide boycott of another nation's goods a cause of war? If there is a Government that is too weak in its internal control to prevent boycotts, and even destruction of foreigners' property and lives, shall it be permissible for the foreign Government concerned to wage punitive war, undeclared? A League of Nations must consider whether it is keeping the peace between effective Governments, or merely bolstering up a sham Government. It is even possible that a sham Government may be made a real Government by foreign guns. The real Chinese unity visioned by Sun-Yat-Sen may yet date its birth from this year's events.