Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-28
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 approved unanimously by 14 powers after many weeks deliberatiOn it would be inadEisable to reopen the negotiations unless changes proposed were fundamental The change he has in mind was not so cIassed by the executive
 Senator Hitchcock. in addressing the senate in vigorous Support Of sS-s league. replied to recent critics or the plan He declared that the alterna- tives before the world were peace with the league or war and preparations for war without it; the internatiOnas- ism of nations or that of the socialist. the anarchist and ehe bOIshevist-" The senator fIatly denied that the league violates either the Monroe doctrine or the principles enunciated by Wash ingtOn and charged opponents with magnifying what they regarded as dan gers and with -cCnJHring up a scare crow
 Answers Leagues Critics
 Senator Hitchcock answered in de tail the recent criticisms of Senator Borah and cummins of Iowa. repub- hcans, and Reed of Missouri. demo crat- Some of their contentious, he characterized as ridiculous and a0- surd- He said it was not true thae the league plans would destroy the Monroe doctrine or depart from Wash ingtOn's foreign policy and. like PTesi- dent Wilson, he took the position that the world powers would add to the Monroe doctrines guarantee
 Pointing out that the league charter was tentative and still subject to amendment. Mir Hitchcock praised the plan for an executive council cOase-- ring permanent rowers upon the i've principal nations
 In the attacks on the league, he said opponents apparently had considered every suggestion of its control except that it might be controlled by the great elf-gOverning demOcracies of the world that established it
 .TO my mind. - he said. the execu- tive council is an ingenious. just and effective method of placing control in the five great nations which have sue csssfuIly fought this war. the peTma- nent direction of the league
 Greater Monroe Doctrine
 The disarmament pTOTis-0n- Senator Hitchcock said. did not arbitrarily fix the limit of armament. but was merely advisory The argument that nations in agreeing to arb-oration agreed to submit their national life" to the league. he declared. was absurd when the league guaranteed political inde- pendence and territorial integrity to every member
 In discussing the Monroe doctrine, Senator Hitchcock said:
 Instead of being compelled to de feud the western hemisphere alone we would have the sympathy and help the league of nations in carrying out the spirit of its organization
 We nave been told that this is one or those entangIing alliances against which Washington warned us I deny it."
 He pictured Washington writing his farewell address by candle light ana added:
 If Washington were living today he would press an electric button, summon a stenOgraDher and in the blaze Of electric lights. dictate mes sage urging the American people 10 unite with other great nations to end wars and establish a perpetual peace of justice and good will He would adapt himself to new cOndi- tiOns-
 Hoots Japanese Question
 To the suggestion that Japan might impose the immigration question oS America. the senator said Japanese efforts for race equality declarations at Paris already had failed and that confronted in the league by seven great Caucausian races, Japan could not even get hearing il she attempt ed to bring up the immigration ques- tiOn
 which We are just emerging, said the which weare just emerging" said the senator in his argument upon the ne cessity for a league. have convinced us that We are a part of the world and that whenever the world becomes con