Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-03
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Senator Lodges Speech

President Wilson's league of na- tions covenant calls the American people away from Washington's doc trines to those of Trotzky, Senator Lodge asserted before the Senate Fri day.
 Criticism of the proposed constitu- tion,' he says, does not extend to all plans for the League of Nations. Fly erybody hates war and longs to make il impossible. We ought to cease once and for all the evil suggestion that method Of assuring the worlds peace in the future. No one is against permanent peace if it can be obtained among all nations Of mankind. T will follow any man and vote for any measure which, in my honest opinion, will make for the mainten- ance of the worlds peace. | will follow no man and vote for no measure which, however, well intend ed, seems, in my best judgment. to lead to dissensions rather than to harmony among the nations, or to peril, injury or injustice to my coun- try
 The agreement must be so plain misunderstood it.'
 Tn the draft prepared for the con- stitution of a League of Nations there is hardly a clause about the interpre- tation~ Of which men do not already differ. As to understanding it, there | is danger that the very nations which 1 sign the constitution of the league l will quarrel about the meaning of 1 various articles within a twelve-month.
 It seem to have been very hastily
 drafted, and the result is crudenes ! and looseness of expression.
 T press this point because you cannot found world peace upon the cynical scrap of paper declared so
 dear to Germany. There is nothing ] so vital to the peace of the world as 1 the sanctities of treaties. To what ever instrument the United States 1 agrees, it must carry out the provi- | sions of that instrument to the last l jot and little. Therefore, the lang
 uage in which the terms are stated
 must be exact and precise and as free ! from any possibility of conflicting in- terpretations as it is possible to make 1 them. Explanations Or interpretations of any of these doubtful passages is not sufficient if made by one man whether that man be the President oi the unitcs; States or senator or any one else
 Lodge directly answered President Wilson's personal explanation of the constitutional provisions regarding the Monroe Doctrine by saying: How anyone can say that article 10 eX- tends the Monroe Doctrine to all the world passes my comprehension. Ii you extend the Monroe Doctrine te all the world, it ceases to exist, be-
 cause it rests on nothing but the diff 1 ferentiation of the American hemi- sphere from the rest of the world. 1 Under this draft, Europe will have the right to take part in the settlemen 1 of American questions, and We, ot course shall have the right to takt part in the settlement of all ques-
 tions in Europe, Asia and Africa. Flu rope and Asia, are to take part in polio
 ing the American continent and the Panama Canal. and in return, we art
 to have the right to police the Balk-
 ans and Asia Minor, and we are asked
 to do so.
 Perhaps the time has come wheI
 we are to do this. but I want to war
 the American people that they ouSh
 never to abandon the Washington policy and the Monroe Doctrine with out benig perfectly certain that the. ! earnestly wish to do so, For thi