Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-12-15
SAYS BIG 4 PACT
IS WAR MACHINE.
Senator Borah Launches Attack
on Treaty in the
Senate.
PART TWO is DANGER spot
Declares His Final Attitude Towards
Agreement Will Be Determined by
What Arms Conference Does
Relative to Disarmament.

Washington, Dec. 13.-Unless the
Washington conference provides for
genuine disarmament the United States
has entered a gigantic military alli-,
ance, Senator Borah said, in launching
an attack on the new Pacific treaty in
the Senate.
Il grant that the language of the
treaty does not provide for the use of
military or naval forces. No one
would have the temerity to write such
thing into any treaty" the senator
said.
Should this treaty be made effec-
tive without force it would be the
first time in history settlement of
serious disputes have yielded without
employment of force.
Refers to Part u.
sIn what manner, except by force,
can Part III of the new treaty be en-
forced?
The mere scrapping of battleships
will accomplish nothing towards real
disarmament or real Limitation of
armament, unless some agreement is
reached for the abolition of the real
and most dangerous and most barbar-
Gus weapons of warfare.
"We are in position to demand the
abolition of the submarine, to Danish
1t outside the pale of civilized warfare,
and yet there has been discussion in
and out of the conference of the reten-
ton of this barbarous and inhumane
instrument which took so many lives in
30 cOwardly fashion during the
World war;"
Borah clashed with Senator Pom
dexter Of Washington, who took issue
with his assertion that article III of
the Pacific treaty contained moral
obligation stronger than any legal OBJ
legation for the United States to en-
ploy force, if necessary, in the Pacific"
Clash With Poindexter.
Poindexter contended there was
nothing in any part of the treaty that
binds the United States to go to war
on the side of any of the other pow
ers signatory to the pact.
II shall continue to oppose this
treaty" Borah continued, until there
is some evidence of real disarmament.
Il am perfectly willing that we
should join an alliance for counsel
among the powers to settle whatever
differences may arise between them,
provided, however, there is genuine
and lasting disarmament.
Article II may appear to be harm
less under some circumstances, but
just suppose that there is armed ag-
gression by coalition between Rus
STA and China against some island pos
session in the Pacific, no matter
whether that possession belonged to
Great Britain, France or Japan.
How would the United States avoid
joining with the other three powers
In using military or naval force to meet
whatever force the Russians and the
Chinese might employ?
'sMy final attitude towards the
treaty will be determined in the last
analysis by what the present confer
ence does, not only with reference to
real disarmament, but to the rights of
China, which apparently were entire
ly ignored in the drafting of treaty
which sooner or later must vitality af-
feet the Chinese people.
1T threatens the Chinese with the
possible menace of military and
naval coalition between the four great
powers who have important island
possessions right at her own door,"