Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-22
Eos.n1er Ambassador
Tkkes Issue with
Chilly 0n.I LEAGUE

C03oV 0nLea8ue
DaG1Ga Oh. Sl-Dr. David Jayne
Nm :foEnAsr smbassador to Germany.
inSans address 1t the City Climb to-
naght. attacked Secretary Of State
c1lbys seatement in an address 81
Sns4pgneId. his, on October IL. that
mGpnAess- of the League Of Nations
49, AboanA not to enter into DIS
eunu1onS~ With senator HARDING II
h slnooJd BE- elected president, with
rueard to any other association OF
na4don2.
Article xx<of the covenant pro-
lGhits only such associations ana
angaeomeats a. are inconsistent
With the terms Of the covenant.
Are The Hague conventions incon-
sfstent with the terms of the COW
enane!'asked DR.. HILL who was
DELEGATE to the second Hague con-
veHt5on In 1907. rs any future de-
veaopment Of the universal society OF
sts44s which framed those conven-
lions inconsistent with the terms OF
the covenant? II 30. then the COW
ensnt involves the dissolution OF
that society. the nullihcation OF it,
existing law and the termination OF
that court of"arbitration which the
league designs to be the basis OF Its
permanent court of international
Justice.
THE league would thus prove to
~ . tfap. In which the small states
have been caught in order to force
them into q military combination in
which the small states would lose
their former freedom and become
the protectorates Of the great pow
81. Mr. Colby snaps the trap too
soon. He holds that the league for
bids q universal society of co-eoual
states. II that 10 true, 1t Is fortunate
that the United States has not gone
In. ahd 1t 10 in vain that one spreads
the lime in sight of the bird"
He pointed out that the draft Of a
permanent court of international
justice proposed by the League Of
Nations explicitly recognizes the re.
suits Of The Hague conventions OF
1899 and 1907 and makes the men,
befs OF The Hague court of arbitra-
ton the nominating body for the new
court.
President Harding" he added.
would probably call z third confer
ence Of the members (of the Hague
sodvention) as President Roosevelt
rallied the second. He would propose
. court Of Justice to which all ma
lions might appeal on equal terms,
with provisions for the revision and
application Of International law.
Would any nation venture to say that
such a universal society of states
should not exist?
1.-THE great constructive American
idea always has been. and still is, the
protection OF rights by means Of just
ana equal laws. Why not extend it
to international relations? Why not
begin by a declaration of rights
which the covenant of the. League Of
Nations does not contain? Then
should the follow the establishment of
q court Of justice before which any
nation could freely bring its case.
The nAxt step would be the revision
and further development of inter-
national law which ia the function of
. conference of a nation and not of
any separate alliance among them.
Finally. there should be an agree
ment not only to obey the law. but to
require conformity to it; not neces-
sarily by war, but b making recog-
milton and friendship on the part Of
the law-abiding nations conditional
upon obedience to the law. That is q
different proposition from an uncon-
ditional contract to defend bound
aries. some Of them unjustly acquired,
some Of them still in dispute, some
OF them imposed by a self-appointed
supreme council against the wishes
of. the peoples concerned. II we are
au any time to use force, let it be in
defending the law, and not to sus-
tain the assumption Of eminent do
main over Europe. Asia and Africa
by a few great powers that have par
tftinyed the "a rfh nv secret treaties -