Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-28
HARDING GIVES
IDEAOF WORLD
JUSTICE COURT
Nominee Calls for Peace
Instrument with Teeth
in It.
TALKS TO HOOsIER BODY

TALKS TO HOOSIER BODY
MARION, o., Aug. 2S.-A new world
court Of justice, built on the foundation
of the Hague tribunal and brought up
to date with some timbers saved from
the wreckage of the league of nations,
was brought forward here today by SEN
ator Warren G. Harding as the repub
Iican party's international peace policy.
He would take and combine. he said
all that is good and excise all that is
bad from both organizations to get an
effective peace instrument with teeth in
it,"
Only in some such manner as this,
Senator Harding asserted, can the world
obtain the lasting peace for which it is
crying, future wars be prevented, and
America assured of maintaining her in
dependence in foreign affairs.
In his first lighting speech on in
ternational issues, made from his front
porch today to a group of Indiana re.
-ptblicans, Senator Harding declared
that the league as conceived at Paris
has broken down utterly.
1t is due only to the far-sighted re-
publican senate. he said. that American
soldiers are not now fighting on the
SAVAGE ATTACK
ON ADMINISTRATION.
Senator Harding savagely attacked the
administrations entire foreign policy
from Mexico to Europe and, from Ar
menia to Latin America
"Wiggiing and wobbling" was the term
he frequently used to describe 1t.
Il
wobbling," he concluded. STEADY Amer
lea -
Wasting only u. few words in intro
duction. the senator devoted his re-
marks entirely and at once to the foreign
situation.
He said in part: -
Let US suppose the senate had ratified
the peace treaty-eontaining the league
covenant. what would be the situation
confronting our country today? There
is but one answer.
Before this day we would have been
called upon 10 fulfill the obligations
which we had assumed under Article y
to preserve territorial integrity of Poland
as against external aggression.
Let us assume further that the per-
formsnce of the allotted task required
waging war on the Russian people, as,
Of course, 1t would.
I've are glibly Informed that only con
gress can declare war. and congress
might reject the appeal Of the executive
Gould congress do that without stain
ing indelibly the honor of the nation?
II answer, no. and back of my judg-
ment stands the president of the United
States"
TELLS ANSWER
OF PRESIDENT
Senator Harding. explained, that at a
meeting of the president with the senate
foreign relations committee he put Just
such a. situation as this before the presi-
dent, VINO after some evasiveness replied
that we would he untrue II we did not
keep our word"
"1t was with reluctance and grave
misgivings that he voted for the res
ervations to the league" Senator Hard
ing said.
@But now." he continued conditions
have changed.
I'VE know now that the league CON
stituted at Versailles is utterly impo-
tent as a preventive Of wars.
1T IS so obvio6sly impotent 1t has
not even been tried.
1T could not survive a single test.
'The original league mistakenly con
ceived and unreasonably insisted upon.
has undoubtedly passed beyond. the pos
sibility of restoration.
1T rested upon the power OF might.
not Of right.
"The assertion is made frequently
that through the surrender of our ma
tionali.y we might have saved the life Of
the covenant; that it, although twenty
eight nations could not make it func-
tion one added to that twenty eight
cold hke it a glowing success, provided
that che be America.
What can it signify if not that it is
to the United States alone that the other
twenty eight nations look for the bone
and sinew, the money. munitions and
men 10 sustain the entire organization,
not as an agency of peace, but as an
armed force?"
QUOTES STATEMENT
OF LLOYD GEORGE.
Senator Harding quoted Lloyd George,
the British premier, as saying that no
armed force could be sent TO Poland's
aid because the European nations could
not provide the troops and the United
States had withdrawn from co-opera-
ton"
"CouId a clearer indication Of what
would be expected OF this country as a
member Of the league be. required?' he
asked.
$50 many things have been done by
the present expiring administration that
no power on earth could induce me to
do. that 1 can not even attempt to re-
count them.
However, If 1 am elected, as l fully
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