New Britain herald., 1919-06-18
WcCUJTBER HOLDS UP LEAGUE A3 SAVIOR OF WORLD PEACE
 AND FLAYS ITS ASSAILAW1S
Republican Senator From North Dakota Predicts
 Universal Holocaust if America Refuses to Join

Washington, June 1S.-Declaring l opponents of the league of nations l have conducted a campaign of mis- | representation and distortion, Senator l McCumber of North Dakota, a repub- | llcan member of the foreign relations . committee told the senate today that 1 the league covenant offered the only present hope of preventing future and 1 more terrible wars.
 Replying to arguments of many re 1 publican senators, he upheld the 1 league as entirely consistent with the American constitution and devoid of any ability dangerously to entangle or Curtail Am eriCan interests.
 1 Denies Any Discrimination Tn 20 years of service in the sen 1 ate," said the senator, "I have known but one instrument whose terms have !, been so Wilfully misinterpreted and so grossly misrepresented as the cove nant of the league of nations. That some of it is vague, l know, and some portions objectionable from par tiCular viewpoints. But that it dis eliminates against us, is unfair in it's treatment of our country or that it imposes on us any obligation burden that is not equally borne by every other nation, I most cmphat- ically deny. It is regrettable that the mighty power of elOQuence is used 10 dcfame and distort the true meaning of an instrument, the most important that ever appealed to the heart or the soul of man.
 Predicts World Holocaust Suppose we now refuse to join with the rest of the world in some scheme to prevent war, what will happen? As surely as the sun shall rise. every great nation will proceed to devise means for the wholesale de- struction of nations. So desperate will be the next war that all the hate and all the venom created by this [ struggle will be infinitesimal com- pared with the next.
 And against what race will all these weapons of death be used? Against the white race!'
 '. S. No Longer Isolated.
 Quoting the declaration of Senator Johnson, republican, of California that America by virtue of her isOla- tiOn does not need the European pow CTS as "partners," MT MCCumber said
 isolation had long since broken down, a European quarrel having cost this country in the last five years 50,00O lives and s40,000,0 900, 900.
 'There is no moral duty incumbent on any man in his relation to his fel- low man." he continued, that is not equally incumbent upon a nation in it's relation to every other nation. What would you say of the strong, vigorous man who would stand on the shore and see woman struggling in the waves while he folding his muscular arms announces, oh, that is no con- Cern of mine, she is not my wife or daughter
 League Would Have Saved War.
 "'Oh,' say opponents of the league, we can make up our minds what to do when the occasion arises What [ want to be right there on the spot when the occasion arises. Had tho United States been right on the spot with an agreement signed by us and by Germany that Germany would not make war on France or any other country without submitting to a league of nations the question of the righteousness of her cause. the world would have been spared this awful COn1a grafton.
 You talk about our entering this war for a great world principle. The man who makes that assertion knows that he falsfics the record He knows that we never once said to Germany You have no right to make war on INrance' We based our right of ac- tion solely on the ground that by the acts of Germany she had made war on us. l want to put ourselves in such a position that we shall never feel 1t necessary to rciterate such a false hood.
 ThwaitS World Domination.
 we knew all along just what Ger pose of world domination. But we had not the right under international law or under any agreement to de- mand that she refrain from her hell ish purpose. We do not want this country or any other country to be again placed in such a position of inn potency.
 "of course, not one of us would have written this covenant just as it h;rs come to us. But this covenant represents the deliberations of na- ttOnS. It deals with complex situa- tions. It comes to us $ a compromise compact. And to secure the support of this country special concessions have been made to us. Our Monroe doctrine is by this instrument given a world sanction.
 Explains Terms of League.
 "ThC members of the league under take to preserve the territorial integ- 1lty only against external a aggression. community of landowners, Whcr0
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