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PRESIDENT TURNS
BACK ON LEAGUE
WOULD FAVOR CONGRESSIONAL
RESOLUTION DECLARING WAR
WITH CENTRAL POWERS END
ED-sEPARATE TREATIES OF
.fEAcE, WOULD. NOT BE
ENOUGH. HOWEVER. SAYS
PRESIDENT HARDING =. \

ENOUGH HOWEVER, SAYS
PRESIDENT HARDING =. \
Washington; April 12.-President
Harding, in; his first address to con-
yress today, announced that he would
l;approve "declaratory resolution" by
congress with qualifications essen
;:al to protect all our rights which
would end the technical state of war
.gainst the Central powers of Eu-
rope" ,. :. ..a ..
The President added, however, that
1T would be idle to declare for sepa-
'ate treaties of peace with the Gen.
5ral powers on the assumption alone
hat these would be adequate because
he situation is so; involved that our
peace engagements cannot ignore the
old world relationships and the set
Elements already effected, nor is it
desirable to do so in preserving our
own rights and contractingo ur fu-
ture relationships" .:.........
Although declaring unresevedly
against "the existing League Of
Nations" the President said: =; j..
"The wiser course would seem to,
be the acceptance of the confirmation
of our rights and interests, as already
provided and to engage under the ex-
isting treaty, assuming, of course,
that this can be satisfactorily accom-
plished by such explicit reservations
and notifications as will secure our
absolute freedom from inadvisable
commitments and safeguard all our
essential interests" ,.......
An Association Of Nations, the
President said, could not. be- founded
until the world was At peace.
-A-
Principal Points in tho Message.
:. Wash ngton, April 12.-Republi-
can members of the Senate foreign
relations committee were called into
conference this morning by President
Harding while he was reading the
final proof on his first message which
he was to read to congress in person
at one p. m. e.
The call for the senators to visit the
White House went out unexpectedly.
IT was understood that the President
desired to present to the Senators his
statement in his message regarding
e'gn relations. The Senators began
arriving at the White House soon af-
ser 10 o'clock and the conference be-
gan half an hour later. "The proof of
the address, as corrected by the Presi-
lent, was given to the public printer
at that time. If any corrections were
to be. made after the conference, it
was assumed they were to be tele-
phoned to the government printing
office"
After the decision to summon the
Republican members Of the foreign
relations committee to the White
House, the President cancelled the
regular Tuesday meeting Of the cabi-
let, which had been scheduled for
eleven q. m.
Washington, April l2.-President
Harding's principal recommendations
to congress, in his first annual ad-
dress delivered today, included the
.ollowing:
Foreign relations: No separate
peace with the Central Powers 'on the
assumption alone that this would be
Adequate The wiser course would
eem to be - to- engage under
the existing treaty assuming OF course
hat this can be satisfactorily accom-
olished by such explicit reservations
md modificat: :ons as will secure our
absolute freedom of inadvisable COM
mitments and safeguard all our es-
sential interests. = No helpful
society of nations can be founded on
Justice and committed to peace until
she covenants re-establishing peace
are sealed by the nations which were
at war"
Taxation: Readjustments of inter-
,a1 taxes and revision or repeal "of