Arizona republican., 1921-11-28
An Association of Nations

An Association of Nations
 la urging an association of nations for peace. President Harding authority the Republican national platform which declared:
 sThs Republican party stands for an agreement among the nations preserve peace of the world We believe that international association must es based upon international justice and must provide methods which shall maintain the rule Of pupc rlsnt Sx the development of and the decision of impar- tiai which shall instant and general international conference whenever peace shall be threatened by political action, that the nations pledged to and insist what is right and fair may exercise their influence and power for the pres ervation of war
 -we believe that all this be done without fhe compromise national independence, without de- prsving people of the United States in advance she right for themselves what is just and fair when tho occasion arises and without involving them as participants and not peacemakers. in a multitude quarres. the merits of which they are unable to judge"
 There is here of course. no outline of associa- ton Nor later did Mr. Harding candidate outline any. though in almost every important speech and Interview be mentioned an association of nations His political enemies accused him of generaites if not vagueness. and declared that Association was only purposefully chosen variant of league term for which they seemed to give MT. Wilson the credit of invention
 Neither the Republican delegates at Chicago the candidate they felt authorized if they felt eoupetent more accurately define association of nations" It could not have been done without conference with the nations who were to b associ- ated definite outline of it by the convention or by MT Harding in the campaign would have been regarded and reasonably so. trick of the cam paign
 It has now at proper time and in proper place-whiie the conference the limitation of arr naments is sitting-been proposed by the president meeting the nations at stated times to consider all matters of international concern and in round =, adi suchd as maj have arisen
 No nation in such conference would feel itself under duress restraint would not be made the victim . majority. It could be committed to noth- ing without consent of it's citizens The very rriendness Of the atmosphere in such conference would tend soften the views of disputatnts who would credit another with good intentions Such agreements as would reached in such conference would be likely to be kept than such as might be imposed upon unwilling nations.
 witty paragrapher lately said that the orders of an would be ineffective with out an international sheriff. Nations cannot be regarded as individuals counties states or provinces. unless wipe out all international lines. Then we could punish recalcitrant nations just as now the central power of a nation may be imposed upon all constituent territory. But body In the world dreamers wants super-nation which would be retained all the present geograph- ical and racial distinctions and multiplicity of lan suages and divergent interests. No nation would long be vassal of any other nation or combination of nations. Nor could the integrity of any ruling combination be guaranteed beyond the lives of the governments or administrations which consented to their formation. The combinations would be as cnangeabe as the figures of kaleidoscope.
 An association, though, formed on a basis of friendship and disinterestedness assurance of national unselfishness likely to endure and grow stronger from government to government and from generation to generation
 It is probable. too that in such association some form of protective guarantes would be devei- cped.