The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-26
European Crisis Imperils World
Peace, Says Berah.
Conference Would Not Bring
About Further TangIe.
RESERVATIONS POURIEG n
administration Leaders Fight
World Farley Plan.
Reports of Hunger Riots New
Argument of Farm Bloc.

Washington, Dec. ga flood of
reservations today threaten to engulf
Senator Borah's proposal for an inter-
national disarmament conference as
Senator Lodge and other Republican
leaders sought to calm the angry YER
bal tempest it has already aroused.
Following a series of. confefences
eheld by, administration spokesmen, it
was stated Lodge and his associates
might be- willing TO accept the Borah
plan as an amendment to the pending
navy supply bill provided he in turn
agreed to the reservations they were
considering.
Enough of the probable nature of
these reservations was conveyed to
Borah and other senators standing
with him to convince them they would
be destructive" of his proposal and
reduce it to a mere declaration of
policy by the senate regarding the
German reparationS muddle without
making it mandatory on the admins
,tration to summon such a conference.
Borah said today he was being
flooded with communications from
outside the senate urging him to press
the adoption of his proposal and eX-
pressing the warmest approval of it
He explained he was seeking a prac-
tical solution of the European eco
noInic and financial crisis which, in
his Judgment, is imperiHing the peace
of the world and the welfare Of the
American people as well as. the nations
overseas. He. was willing to ACCEPT
any substitute for his plan, provided
it would accomplish the purpose for
which his own proposal was intended
Borah would be wiling to have the
reparatonS y1neraSS submitted to arbl-
tration, he added. and good offices OF
The Hague tribunal employed to that
end, but he believedSthe United States
was in a position to bring about a re-
OF European affairs with
out becoming entangled in them any
more than it is now. He pointed to the
peace conference successfully con-
Quoted by former President Roosevelt
fwar as historic in
stance of the kind of arbitration he
had in mind.
Already in Tangle.
He is still unalterably- opposed to
political alliances such as
he thought tthe Versailles treaty i'm
posed, but he has never assumed the
position that the United States should
nots extend its commercial relations
with the rest of the world and WherS
the economic and financial welfare of
the United States was concerned with
those of Europe he thought it to the
best of interests of the American peo-
pie that their government should act
d decisively to help bring order out OF
chaos.
Cormick,, Republican, Illinois, who
has Just returned from an European
tour, that hunger riots among the
German people this winter are in
evitable> and Germany is now i'm dire
need of $1o0>O0O,000 worth of -Ameri-
can wheat will be seized upon by
Senators Capper. Kansas, Republican;
McNary. Republican, Oregon. and
other leaders OF the senate farm
bloc" as additional evidence that the
buying power of Europe should he
restored and the surplus farm prod
ucts of America made available to
hungry European peoples. 4
Capper and s1fcNary are both ready
to lead the farm bloc forces to the
supporter Borah and to join with
him in his argument that the union
debacle Senator Mccormick said is
must be eaverted if the
farmers and the rest Of American peo-
pie are not to suffer acureIy from
continuation of the economic and fl
nancial crisis gripping the German
and other peoples of Europe