The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-02
HOOVER URGES
RATIFICATION
PEACE TREATY
WOULD HAVE REPUBLICAN PAR
4 TY TAKE DEFINITE STAND FOR
VERSAILLES PACT.
ARTICLE TEN is, ELIMINATED
Former Food Administrator Would
Have G. o. P.f Endorse Theaty
Without "Entanglina Alliances"
Provision 81 Pact.
(By United Presa)
(From Fridays Daily Herald.)


NEW YORK, June 25.-Earliest
a possible ratification of the German
peace treaty, after elimination OF Arti-
Gle 10 and adherence to the league of
nations, as the platform upon which
the republican party should stand In
the presidential. campaign was urged
by Herbert Hoover in statement
published in the New York Evening
Post today.
Hoover advocates the league as a
"a product of the liberal ideas of the
world" declaring that in such an or
ganization there was no place for any
threat Of military. force such as is i'm
piled in the present. Article Ten
Hoover urged the republican party
to take definite stand for ratifica-
tion Of the treaty without Article Ten,
in order to force the democratic par
ty into the position Of defending "a
practical military alliance-upon
which their safety devices only fur
Their endanger the real value of the
league"
Article Ten, which Hoover would
eliminate, states that members Of the
league will undertake to preserve the
territorial integrity OF member ma
tions.
Hoover said there was nothing in
the phraseology of Article Ten con-
stituting binding obligation, but de-
clared there is an implication that
apparently has generally come to be
regarded as constituting y strong
moral responsibility" He said the
real cause of dissension regarding the
\ league was whether the United States
should commit itself to guarantee the
territorial integrity of foreign states
(. and to use Its military resources to
carry out the leagues decisions. This,
he said, was the fundamental ques-
ton around which the forthcoming
election would be fought.
THE essential things about the
league covenant that commends it to
me-" he said ARE, first, its recogni
ton that wars have their springs
\ chiefly in Misunderstanding and its
4 provision for an organization design
ed to minimize occasions for distrust
I by continuous common counsel, and
second, its creation of facilities for
converging upon any controversy
wide publicity and the force of the
] public opinion of the world. The de-
!. STABILITY of organizing these activi-
ties by international cooperation is
supported by both our political par
ties.
Hoover said, the covenant was an es-
sential part Of the treaty. There is,
therefore, primary fact: That all
talk of making a new treaty is bunk;
to revise the functions of the league
lin the prevention Of war is possible"
Therefore my suggestions are,
first, that 1t Is worth consideration
by the present members of the league
Y whether immediate revision of the
parts mentioned should not be under
taken in order that it may be actu-
ally of greater strength fer the great
good 1t can accomplish. Second.
such a revision will meet the merits of
\ dissensiOn in the United States Third,
whether 1t be today or ten years
Z hence, we will, If we want peace, rat
lily the treaty of Versailles in some
form.
I'm the face of these conditions can
not the republican party strengthen
its own position by adopting the def
J, mite constructive policy of ratifica-
ton subject to the minor reservations
and wider vision of strengthening
the league by excluding the guaran-
tees and their military enforcement
and making membership in the league
conditional upon disarmament within
given perior? Such policies will pro-
tect American independence, free us
from every possible ENHANCEMENT ex-
cept the use of our moral and econom-
ic strength to enforce peace. 1t will
leave our democratic friends fencing
upon ground of advocacy of a prac.
tical military alliance-upon which
their safety devices only further en-
danger the real value Of the league"