The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-01
SPEEDY ACTION
 ON PACT URGED
Hoover Advises Republicans To Pledge Ratification
 Of Peace Treaty

NEW YORK, June 30-Speedy rat ification of the treaty of Versailles, after eliminating Article X of the League of Nations covenant, was urged by Herbert c Hoover in q statement published in the New York Evening Post as the platform should stand in the coming Presi dential election.
 Mir. Hoover took the stand that the implied threat of employment of military force to guarantee the of place in league which he de- clared was "the product of the lib eral ideals of the world"
 The leagues power, he declared, l would be more potent if the threat
 of military force were removed and
 he League relied wholly on it's moral and economic power" Reconsideration Urged
 "It appears to me to be time to
 ,"ise the question: said MT. Hoover.
 "as to whether thise same cause
 refer to-the guarantee and the
 use of military force-that has
 brought about the dissension in the United States, is not also under mining the League in Europe. Has not experience and discussion shown that the time has arrived to
 reconsider this part of the League foundation?"
 He declared the first and fore most duty of the League was re- duction of all ornaments, and he suggested that Americas continu- ance as a League member be con-
 ditioned on the achievement of d
 reduction within specified time. Mr Hoover declared that sooner or
 later the United States must rat l fly the treaty of Versailles in some form and that talk of negotiating a new treaty was bunk"
 Charter of independence "The treaty of Versailles" he said, "is the charter of independence of Poland Czecho-S -Slovakia and | Finland, and the warrant of in creased national territory of several great nations It is the guarantee of the disarmament of | 'our great autocracies, and no> Euro | ,ean nation is going to risk their | revival It is mortgage upon the | enemy states, and they are not go | ing to offer the opportunity to Ger | many. Austria. Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria. to escape their debts l by intrigue at a new peace con
 terence.
 | "The League of Nations covenant is an essential part of the treaty. 1 t does possess two functions: First, | { gives title to mandates; it today | Toverns certain neutralized areas l { ramifies the score of details of | IettlemeDt with enemy states. Its l ;econd function is it's provisions for l prevention of future war. The first l ,hase can no more be reopened than l he treaty itself The second func- | ion relates to the future and is sub 1 ect to amendment; it can he
 ,mended by the League organiza l ion itself
 For Constructive Policy l "In the face of these conditions. : l he concluded, "can not the Republi can party strengthen it's own posi- | ion by adopting the definite con | ,tructive policy of ratification sub
 ect to the minor reservations and . wider vision of strength of the
 League by excluding the guarantee
 md their military eDforcement-anG
 making membership in the League
 conditional upon disarmament with
 in given period? Such policies
 vii protect American independence
 rec us from every entanglement ex l cept the use of our moral and eco
 homie strength to enforce peace. II
 will leave our Democratic friends
 fencing upon the ground of advocacy
 of practical military alliance
 lpon which their safety devices only
 further endanger the real value ol
 the League"