The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-06
MOSES ADVOCATES
 WORLD TRIBUNAL.
Senator Would Set Up New Court In Place Of
 League Body

NEW YORK. Dec. 5-Development of world court at The Hague in place of that set up under the eLague of Nations was proposed here tonight by Senator Moses of New Hampshire, in an address at the annual dinner of the American Association of Wool en Manufa cturers.
 Senator Moses an "irreconcilab ble" of the Senate foreign relations com mittee and chairman of the repub- lioan senatorial campaign committee. is understood to have discussed his views with other republican leaders in the Senate iii connection with the pending world court proposal from | President Harding.
 Stating that America had spon- sored The Hague tribunal, Senator Moses asked
 why should we turn our back upon a child of our own creation in order to fondle the rag dolls of foreign diplomacy"
 Senator Moses declared the world court could not be "disentangled from the Lea que of Nations by a
 reservation or any textual amend ment short of the destruction of the entire protocol"
 Like the treaty of Versailles" he
 said, "the league court carries obli- | kdtlOHS anu NHiCh NHe 1 United States cannot undertake-un- less we are prepared to repudiate the verdict of 1920 and to take the first
 step in path which leads to the vortex of close and inescapable en- | tanglement in European problems.
 "Yet those of us who recognize l the facts and who have the temer- | iity to assert them are characterized
 as humanly strabismic and political l 1Hrt nf ma Q 1 obstruction and are taunted with having no constructive plan to offer | as against one which promises so high & return that nothing short of an International blue-sky law can
 properly interfere with it's operation. And this, too, in the face of q recent declaration by the newest of
 all senators, save one, that he clutch es the key to the problem, possesses | the formula for the solution of our
 difficulties, and can assure the peace
 of the world--thus proving once more
 the old truth that many things,
 though hidden from the wise and
 prudent, are revealed unto babes and
 stockings.
 But from my point of view 1 look | beyond the proposed league court and
 see another tribunal, in the cre-
 ation of which the United States had
 no small part and to the strengthen l ing of which the United States later
 made the greatest contributory sug-
 gestion--a suggestion which was l rendered nugatory only because
 other nations were not then either 1 sufficiently enlightened or sufficient i ly chastened to meet our advanced 1 opinion. The Hague tribunal, of which l am speaking, has a long and honored record.
 And, because of this record to my mind, The Hague tribunal now, as from out inception. presents firm 1 foundation upon which to erect, if such structure is necessary. an iu- ternational temple of justice, per manent in it's character, broad in it's functions, paid by it's representa- tive nations, and tribunal to which all peoples may repair, knowing that it's bench shall be impanelled from all countries signatory to The Hague treaties without submitting its judges to the indignity of running the gauntlet of any council or as- sembly whose authority has already
 been disdained and flouted.
 We are daily assured by those
 who wish to profit by our power and our authority that we possess the moral leadership of the world. If so, why not reassert it-by turning why not re-assert it-by turning again to The Hague tribunal, a liv- ing body which needs only to be nurtured to become what we once sought to make it?"