The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-02
BORAH'S TEST
PACIFIC TREATY
IDAHO SENATOR SAYS NATIONS
In ALLIANCE HAVE BEEN AG-
GRESS0RS IN FAR EAST


Washington, Jan. Ia. Pills
words spread by wireless through adj
jacent states, Senator Borah, repub-
llcan of Idaho, speaking here today,
submitted what he described as a test
of whether the four-power Pacific
treaty was based on justice and was
thefeore a peace alliance, or based on
force and therefore a military alli-
ance." Several thousand amateur and
commercial operators within 200 miles
of Washington listened in" on the
address.
The. test which Mr.. Borah offered
was whether supporters of the treaty
were willing to accept reservations
by which the powers would agree to
restore within one year and there
after ever to respect the rights, inter-
ests, territory and sovereignty of all
nations or governments in the regions
of the Pacific He added to that
the further provision that should the
agreement to restore and respect
such interests be not observed, obli-
cations under article two would be
terminated automatically"
He asserted that the 'aggressions
in the Far East for fifty years have
been on the part of nations, or rather
governments, which have now signed
an alliance to prevent aggression
He charged that it was the nations
in the alliance, not the nations out
side of it, who have disregarded the
rights of other nations and peoples
in the Pacific in recent years. "The
disturbances in the Far East" he
continued, "and the things which
threaten war arise out of failure of
the nations now proposing an alliance
to regard the rights of other nations
and not out of acts of those excluded
from the alliance. There would be
no far eastern questions of a disturb
ing nature of the members of this
proposed alliance had respected the
rights of the weak or more peacefully
disposed people of the east. Let the
alliance specifically provide that the
alliance itself and each and all mem
bers will respect the rights and SOW
ereignty and interests Of other peo-
pies and let it be provided that if
they do not, the alliance is dissolved.
81 thing one of the most interest
ing and Illuminating revealments of
modern diplomacy is this proposition
that the nations which have been
doing all of the aggressing or attack
ing, should get together and solemnly
form an alliance against those ma
lions who have not been guilty of
such things 1t the nations to be
members of this alliance would hand
back to the nations and peoples the
territory, the rights and the liberties
they have taken from them, the war
clouds in the Far East would disap-
pear You would not need an
alliance in the Far East if it were
not necessary to protect the territory
which has been unjustly obtained by
members of the alliance"
Mr.. Borah declared it would be a
crime-"a crime not only against our
own people, but crime against mill
lions in the Far East"-for the Unit
ed States to join an alliance if "ag-
gressions' are to continue in the ten
years of the agreements life as they
have taken place in the past" He
argued that it was wrong to ask the
American people to guarantee pro-
lection against disturbances and war
which may be brought about or in
spired by members of the alliance
itself'N
He discussed also provisions of the
treaty concerning the homeland of
Japan These, however. he did not
regard as more important than other
features which, he said, would lead
the United States into war ''just as
truly if any island were attacked as
though the Japanese mainland were
The subject of aggression"
These ''militaristic" features of the
treaty should be stripped off, he
added, saying that if such were not
lone, it should be regarded as proof
that the members of the alliance
ire unwilling to restore the territory,
,he franchises, the privileges which
other people claim have been taken
rom them unjustly and which are,
low the causes of troubles in the Far
East"