Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-24
PLEAFOR 6. To
ENTER LEAGUE
Made by WickerSham at Big
Conference of Churches at
Chautauqua New York

CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y, Aug. 2S:--
George w. Wickersham, attorney
general of the United States under
Roosevelt, at this mornings session
of the Conference on International
Relations from the Christian View
point held under the auspices OF the
Commission on International JUS
tice and Goodwill of h Federal
Council of Churches, made a remark
able plea for the United States to
enter the League of Nations.
He declared that representatives
of a great political party" had in
vented" reasons why the United
States should not join the League.
lie characterized as an almost
Childish policy" the plan pursued by
the American Government for some
time in affecting to ignore the exist
tence of the League.
Severely condemning the American
government for apparently encourag-
Ing the militaristic ambitions OF
Brazil to build a war navy, he de-
cIared that this action may force the
other South American nations 10
appeal to the League OF Nations Ior
protection. He also declared that
the United States must recognize
the fact that though 1t talks a lot
Iabout the Monroe Doctrine 1t is un-
popular in South America and tnat
many nations to the south hate this
country.
The former attorney general used
very simple language and presented
a logical statement Of the SITUATION
as he sees It. He said, in part:
I'm order intelligently to discuss
what the League of Nations Is do
ing, we should first look
to it's organization and consider what
1t was intended to do, and then en-
Iuuire how far such intentions have
been carried out, in what direction
the League has been moving, what is
Its present position and towar1s
what goal its cause is being directed.
1T is hardly necessary to recall
to the minds of an audience sucn
as this the circumstances out of
which grew the idea of a League or
Nations to preserve the peace of the
world. 1t was the great aspiration
of peace-loving peoples in many
nations which had been swept into
the awful maelstrom of the bloodiest
war of the ages.
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engulfed in it's destruction the youth
of three continents, the resolution
was expressed by leaders OF thought
and spirit the world over, that some
better means cf adjusting the con-
hicting ambitions of dyDasties n
national groups must be found than
resort to the brutal, hideous, scien-
.tihc destruction of an entire gener-
alton of the youth of the ~contending
nations.
The war was a direct challenge
to Christian civilization. The German
onslaught had to be met: force with
force. The government of the Unit
ed States strove against what seemed
Its manifest duty Of its citizens Tor
more than two years, but in vain.
1t finally was compelled in its own
Interest to unite with the other ma
tions against which German agrees
sion had been directed and by a
mighty effor. array itself with them
upon the ~battlefieids of Europe.
Coming late as it did into the
contest, with undiminished financial
and material resources and man
power, it's government was enabled
largely to dictate the terms OF the
peace which vas agreed upon when
the German war machine collapsed
and the Hohenzollern dynasty was
ousted. The contest had involved
SO many nations. the consequences
of the war necessarily were SO intri-
cate that 1t is scarcely to be wonder
ed that the treaty Of peace negotiat-
ed within a period of six months
should not have given satisfaction
to all parties concerned.
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