INTERNATIONALISM 95

growing in the ideal of brotherhood, working
for it, aiming at it, and not desiring interna-
tionalism and working towards those relations'
from one nation to another which will bring
about an exchange, an interchange between
them that would alter the attitude of each to
all other nations—to the whole world. I have
said that this mutual attitude must be won;.
each nation must win the confidence, trust and
understanding of the other nations, and this can
only be done by straight and open dealing,.
and the first step is for public opinion to insist
on open treaties and that all obligations should
be made known to the public ; so long as Gov-
ernments, or a section of the Government, can
make <fc hole and corner " alliances, one nation
against another, so long will no nation know
where it lies with reference to other nations,
none will know who is his secret enemy, or
perhaps I had better say who is his enemy
made in secret. This has, in the past, been one
of the great barriers in the way of mutual
intercourse and inter-exchange from one nation
to the other. No confidence is won if secrets are
kept up the sleeves, neither can there be mutual
understanding if each nation has kept back or
hidden something or presented a front that was