Evening star., 1923-03-18

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posal for world court as worked out
by Elihu Root, who was appointed
and took part in drafting the plan for
the world court, but whose ideas were
in some vital respects discarded when
the council and assembly of the
league came to pass upon the plan.
Under the Root plan a real court
would have been established, Senator
Borah said yesterday: such a court as
he could have supported. He is
against the entrance of the United
States into the court as 1t now stands,
pointing out this country has a right
now to go into that court. If IL de-
sires. without becoming member
through adherence to the protocol
Under the Root proposal" said
Senator Borah, "a nation sued by an
other would have had to go into court.
Under thee present plan. however. a
nation cannot be taken into court un-
less it assents. Both parties to the
enlargement must agree to having
the difference adjudicated. The strong
nations OF Europe were unwilling to
have the weak bring them into court
They refused to allow the Root plan
to stand"
Capper Favors Plan.
Senator capper. head OF the farm
bloc in the Senate, believes in the
United States joining in the world
court, and expressed the opinion that
the proposal would receive strong
backing in the middle. west
The United States. as pointed out
by the President, always has taken
| strong position in advocacy of such
an agency of peace as the World
Court II is his contention that the
United States cannot well afford to
remain outside the World Court in
view OF It's support Of plans for such
a tribunal in the past and the desire
| OF the American people for q perman-
ent international tribunal looking
to world peace.
The proposal of the administration
| that the United States take part in
the World Court was made after a
long period of consideration In a
measure. 1t may be considered Sec
ond step of the administration look
ing toward world peace. with the
Limitation of ornaments conference
| as the first.
Objects to Party Politics.
The proposition has been advanced
| by American statesmen that partisan
| politics should stop at the waters
edge-that the foreign policies Of the
country and foreign relations should
| not be made the subject of party
strife. and that the country should
4 snow q unlteQ LTOnt IN QeallnB with
foreign nations. But the foreign
| policies of the country, for several
years at least, have been far more
| in politics than out of them, and the
, next national campaign is going to
, be filled with references to those
policies.
Senator David I. Walsh of Massa.
chusstts, democrat. an opponent OF
| the league Of nations, said yesterday
! he had found considerable sentiment
4 In his state in favor of the United
States joining in the World Court, as
proposed by the President. He said
that he himself had not had oppor-
tunity, yet to study the question
closely. but that he was inclined tc
| support any project looking to world
peace; that he was strongly in favor
of measures looking TO peace. ant
that the World Court was set up. he
understood. for the peaceful adjudica-
| tiOn of differences arising between
nations.
| Senator Walsh added that he be.
lieved in helping Europe, If possible
But before he supported any measure
designed to give aid to Europe, hi
wanted the people OF the United
States to understand fully just what
| that particular measure committed
them to-
! There are some persons in this
country, he said, who are anxious tc
have the United States 60 into any
group of nations or combination:
just so that this country may get
count the cost in dollars that the
taxpayers OF this country may be
called upon to produce, whether ir
the matter of loaning money to Eu.
rope or in the matter of using the
| armed forces Of the United States tc
settle the rows of European nations