Arizona republican., 1920-08-13
ROOSEVELT SAYS
 ENDORSEMENT IF LEAGUE BY U. [. WILL STOP REDS
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MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 12-En- dorsement of the league of nations by the United States would have saved Poland, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared here tonight. The moral effect of the membership in the league would have halted the Russian armies without single American soldier crossing the seas, he said.
 History will lay a great share of re- sponsibility for the plight of Poland upon those little, narrow men in the United States senate, those little mar row men who today control the ma chinery of the Republican party" he declared. But their desire to satisfy personal spite, the bolshevists would not be knocking at the gates of | Warsaw.
 "The heart of America goes out to the Polish nation. Our hands are tied because of the obstructionist methods of Senator Harding's group of sena- | tors. The United States is still tech nically at war. It is not g. member of | the league of nations. All it can do is offer advice and sympathy"
 MT. Roosevelts speech came as an answer to criticism that he avoided the | issue in his Chicago speech last night. T am not afraid of the league of na- tions.' he declared, and described the covenant as an application of moral law to international relations
 As result of the great war the chief gain. I like to think, has been a complete change in the theory of inter national law
 League Is But Law of Nations
 The league of nations is but an ex- pression of the new law of nations.
 Under the league of nations, the pre- sumption of neutrality is reversed and the nation which plans to attack an other can assume with far more prob ability than all the other nations will hfaF F0fl xryfYI now demand that the attacking nation shall show cause why it did not op- serve the law of nations.
 The plea for the league of nations the plea which so far only Russia Mexico. Turkey and the United States
 have failed to heed, is that We discard
 the old policy of dangerous neutrality
 and adopt the sane principle which ha. , long been the cornerstone of common , law ana Of mans relation with man. / In speaking of Paland, he said: League Would Save Poland
 If America had been a mamber O.
 the league of nations the Polish natior would not be today fighting bolshev. ism with it's back to the wall I : America had been able to throw intt the scale the splendid moral force of it. hundred millions of people the bolshev ist armies would not be where the, are. Events which led up to the pres 7 ent deplorable situation would neve have occurred. Do not let us forget tn moral force of the United States il
 such san undertaking. It would no
 have been necessary for singh
 American soldier to cross the sea. I
 would not have been necessary fo
 America to become entangled in Euro
 pean politics. Ours would have beel
 the quieting and steadying hand in
 league without which America is In I complete.''
 In conclusion, he said
 \ We pray it is not too late w pray that the United States may do it
 full share in helping to build up agaf O in the future that independent natfo = Of Poland which has always been ots
 friend and to pay back in some slign
 measure the splendid help given us a
 the time of our own war for independ
 ence by the Polish patriots and lover "a of worldwide liberty, Kosciusko an e Pulaski"