Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-05
LET FOCH DRAW
PEACE TREATY,
HARDING URGES
Ohio Senator Says Peace Must
Be Wound Up as Quick as
Armistice to Curb
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gestion that General Foch should
write the peace treaty and wind it
up in hurry as he did the armistice
terms has been advanced by Senator
Warren e. Harding of Ohio in an
interview. General Foch could be
depended upon, the senator said, to
phard the security of the United
States as we'll as that of France and
Great Britain.
Senator Harding criticised the de-
lay at the peace conference and de-
clared that it has brought the allies
apparently to the point of recogniz-
ing bolshevism. He said the people
of all countries are seriously con-
cerned over the delay in bringing
about peace.
Bolshevism Dominant Factor.
mot only is bolshevist destruc-
tiveness to be countenanced in fall
en- Russia" he added, but the world
will awaken pretty soon to the fact
that it is also dominant in Germany
and has done infinitely more through
revolution and delay than it was ex-
pected to accomplish by force of
arms"
Senator Harding declared that II
is dangerous business to trade or
our position as world creditor and
to force Europe and America into a
TASTY compact to establish world
internationalism,"
OF the league of nations he said:
1T is difficult to say anything
about the proposed league of nations
because no one knows what the pro-
posal is going to be. The original
draft is doomed here. if not buried
at Paris. 1t is regrettable that we
know so little. In the face of the
solemn pledge of open covenants
openly arrived at we are astonished
to read of threatened exposures of
hindering influences, and my own
reluctant impression is that the
peace conference is not getting any
where with actual accomplishments.
| doubt if we have any serious pro-
posal for league with the treaty of
peace, for which peace treaty all the
world is calling.
Preservation Big Issue.
"The oft uttered demand for some
thing constructive in place of oppo-
sition to the presidents first propos-
al,>seems to have been met, and have
turned the course of events. If not
literally constructive, it is at least
corrective and preservative and it
was preservation that Washington
was thinking about when he uttered
his anxieties and warnings to the
American people. Clearly the orig
lnal purpose is forsaken now and
the sanctity of one-man dictation is
ended One-man power by force of
arms has been proven impossible
again and again, and it will not pre-
/ vail in the rhetoric of peace"
Declaring that he will make no
speeches on the league of nations
until he knows definitely what the
proposal is, Senator Harding said
that the United States will accept
nothing which puts an end to ma
tlonal ASPIRATIONS; neither Will any
of the other powers represented III
the peace conference, he said. The
senator said it would be easy for
the conference to provide for clear
and unmistakable enunciation of in
ternational law and commit all the
allied nations to it's enforcement.
Under such an arrangement
there would never be another world
war unless some mad man of the
future again undertakes the domina-
ton of the world" Senator Hard
ing added "In that event the world
will do again as it has so recently
done. it will resort to force to strip
him of his power. All the leagues
ever dreamed of will never eliminate
world politics, such as is today
hating the peace conference, or
prevent the development of danger
Gus ambitions. Our problem is to
commit the moral, and if need be,
the physical force of America
against the aggressions and trans
pressiOns of both"