Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10
LODGE, NOT HUGHES, HOLDS
STAGE IN FAR EAST SESSION
Literature Suppants War in Effective Championship of Four
Po,oer Pact by Former Treoty-W Wrecker

white beard carefully combcd. gets good
hand as he rises. Harding has tied up
the treaty wrccker" of the Senate and
made him party to this treaty. Lodge
will not nnly he good and go along he
himself announces agreement on the
treaty. Mr.. Harding himself is n diplo-
mat playing the game behind the
scenes.
II :40--I,odgc announces the treaty
Is to run for ten years and remain in
force after that until denounced OH a
years notice by one or more of the high
contracting parties. 1t is subject to an
agreement on zap. lNtle island, big
issue. and on use of Japan's inundated
islands in the Pacific. Anglo jap
ancsc alliance Is scrapped.
II :45--"No military cor naval force
turks in background" Of proposed
treaty. Lodge SAYS. Senators in gall
Icrics applaud uncertainty. Best way
to prevent war Is to remove. causes of
war" Lodge adds. Everybody ap-
paudS this. No disagreement on self
evident truths this morning. The big
news is out. Lodges speech now is
rhetorical. He quotes Robert Louis
Stevenson and Drowning.
Lodges Show, Not Hughes
Literature supplants war. This is
Lodges show. Hughes has stepped
aside for Il moment. The chairman of
the Scnate's Foreign Relations Com
mttec is tying himself up to the Hard
ing Hughes foreign policy with each
sentence.
:ho--Shadcs OF the Cabots and the
lodges New England aristocrats, must
bt well pleased with the family states
man as nc reads ms carefully prepared
address In host HpStnninn oCcCntS As
ne hnlSheS there IL LIBERAL applause. me
senator I-njerwood if no arrers That
can he takcn for granted This Ia ono
treaty the senate will ratifv.
Mr.. Harding. who knows whnt is
going on, must smile to himself today.
But Lodge must not sec him do IT,
And now they must tell IL to Viyiani.
He will listen To n French translation
nf Lodge, Robert Louis Stevenson md
browning. He looks terribly bored and
diagusted. But tradition must be up-
held. The French language must not
be permitted to die as the language of
| diplomacy. 1t is noon and the official
reporter. interpreter and translator,
who reads, writes. talks and takes
shorthand notes with equal ease and
| tlupnCy in French and English is still
! Interpreting Boston to Paris. He means
much to the peace Of the world which
Mr.. Harding says comes through
understanding
IL :O5-M. NiviHni, once Premier of
France, rises at his place. Applause for
France and Niviani. lie addressed
Congress from the speakers rostrum
during the war, coming over with Mar
Shal JOffre. Nivinni Is a statesman and
diplomat. Not prepoSscs~ing like Hughes
he looks lilp" a business man. and talks
like genius of self-cxpression.
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