New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
26 National
Bodies Urge
Quick Peace
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Mrs. Glenn Levin Swiggett and Mrs
Raymond B. Morgan.
League to Enforce Peace-Oscar S
Straus and Hamilton Holt.
Dairymen's League-Charles A. Ly.
man.
National Educational Association--J
L. McBrien.
Department of Superintendence, Ma
ttional Educational Association--Jessie
United Society of Christian Endeav-
orr. Stanley Durkee.
Federal Council Of Churches OF
Christ in America-Charles S. Mac
Farland, Bishop William +. Mcdowell
and E. 0. Watson.
Church Peace Union-Henry A. AT
kinson and Peter Ainslie
World Alliance of Churches for In
ternational Friendship Through the
Churches--Dr. mcfarland and Bishop
Mcdowell
Associated Advertising Clubs of the
World-Herbert S. Houston.
Agricultural Press of the United
States-Herbert Myrick.
National Board of Farm Organiza-
tons-Charles W. Holman.
American School Citizenship League
Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, Mrs. j.
Malcolm Forbes.
General Federation of Women S
Clubs--Mrs. Walter B. Sharp.
National Council of Women-Mrs.
Phillip North Moore. Mrs. Percy V.
Pennypacker. Mrs. C. B. Ames.
National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union-Miss Anna A. Gordon,
Mrs. Alice W. Yost
World Peace Foundation-Denys P.
Myers.
Order of Railway Conductors-W. II.
Clark, vice-president.
and Engineers--Timoth Shea, acting
president; P. j. Mcnamara.
Farmers Educational and Coopera-
tive Union-R. S. Bower.
National Grange-F. C. Atkinson.
National Conference of Social Work
crs--Rev. Father John O'Grady.
Women's Non-Partisan Committee
for a League of Nations--Mrs. j. Bor~
den Harriman
League of Free Nations Association
James G. Mcdonald.
Lodge Reviews Situation
After reading the manifesto, Senator
Lodge said:
"No one recognizes more fully than
do the character Of the associations
represented here to-day and the great
number Of good people and good Amer
also what the purposes Of these So
cleties are. You do not expect me,
| imagine, to discuss the league of
nations and the various points in re-
gard to it. 1t would take me many
hours to do that. 1t is only, | think,
for me to state to you the situation
as it is to-day
Let me first say this, because
think there has been some little mis-
take about it. there have been many
lntlmations. that in dealing with this
great, question Senators have been af-
tected by personal or party motives.
That has not been the case. In ali
these long months during which we
have been discussing reservations, etc.,
there has been no word of party. l
nave never mentioned it myself and
assure you that in dealing with this
matter, however right or wrong they
may be in their conclusions, Senator'S
mold very deep convictions upon the
q-estions involved. To them they are
questions of principles and OF very
great principles, as they think - We
went all through the long and tedious
summer and finally on November 10
we came to a vote.
Reservations Compromise
~, The situation then existing was this:
inere was the President demanding that
the treaty should be ratified-I am
Speaking of the league now and not Of
the treaty of peace with Germany-as
nc SAID, without crossing IT. or dot
ting an IL AT the other extreme were
q very large and very powerful body of
senators vino were against the league
altogether, no matter whas reservations
or amendments we're made. 1t seemed
to me from the beginning that the only
hope for ratification was along the
pathway Of reservations and that after
all this discussion, of which | have
spoken, very decisive majority of the
Senate adopted fourteen reservations.
Twelve OF them were reported by this
committee and two were presented on
the floor of the Senate The reserya
tions in themselves were a compromise