The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-26
BORAH'S COURT
PLAN Gets
BACKING
Nearly 1,ooo,o 900 in organi-
zation for Tribunal to Out
law All Warfare.

BY WILLIAM HARD.
Col. Raymond Robins, member
of the Republican National Execu-
tive Committee, disclosed the fact
here today that Senator Borah's
proposal for an international
court for the total Z" outlawry" of
all war is not simply a personal
notion Of the Idaho Senator's but
on the contrary is an object of
deliberate nationwide agitation
by an organized movement which
has covered the country with
speeches and pamphlets from
Lcoast to coast.
Support for BOrah.
! This movement is actively sup
tporting Senator Borah in his adj
! vocacy of the 'out1awry" of war, and
| has sent out almost one million
pieces of propaganda literature to
/ follow up the work of its sowing
orators who have been making
! idealistic addresses to chambers OF
commerce and boards of trade and
/ womens clubs and chautauqua as
! semblies all over the country for
more than a year.
| Under the spell of the arguments
| thus sent forth, the Senatorial leader
of the national farm bloc" Senator
Capper of Kansas has joined Sena-
! tor Borah in accepting and pro-
noting the idea of an international
war outlawry' court; and two
other Republican Senators of high
importance are on the verge of do
| ing likewise.
One of them has frankly said so
to this writer; and the other. who
is not at present in Washington, has
used language, which can bear no
other Interpretation.
Colonel Robins himself, 1t was
| learned; has just returned from
| trans-continental oratorical tour in
the course of which, beginning with
Miami, Florida, he has made his
characteristic impassioned speeches
in favor of "the outlawry of war"
at New Orleans, Dallas. San Antonio,
Los Angeles, San Francisco. Denver.
Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, Cleve-
land, Buffalo. New York and Boston.
Today he was in conference here
| with his friends among Republican
Senators and other Republican party
| leaders and was subjected TO earnest
this activity and as to the forces be-
| hind it.
Knox Was Believer.
From what the colonel is reported
to have said. and also from direct
interview with him, this writer
gathers that the propag andist or
ganization for popularizing Senator
Borah's war outlawry" court has
l.. II. e. a,aF1
draws its inspiration chiefly from a
very successful and very well-to-do
Chicago lawyer, s. o. Levinson, and
from the writings and speeches and
! conversation of the late Senator
Philander c. Knox of Pennsylvania.
1t is well known in Washington
| that Senator Knox was believer in
| taking measures toward making war
an international crime" He OPP
posed the League of Nations because
! he disbelieved in the possibility of
arriving at international peace
| through meetings of the representa-
tives of the legislative or executive
| departments of the worlds govern
ments.
He believed that the only feasible
foundation for international peace
| was in sort OF association of the
! ideas of the worlds judicial depart
ments. He believed in international
peace through international law;
and he believed that the interna-
tional court set up to administer in
ternational law should declare all
war unlawful"
Constant Visitor Here.
Thus this propaganda for Sena-
tor Borah's war outlawry'' court
! is now seen to go back to Senator
Knox; and it is within the memory
of this writer that 8. o. Levinson. !
of Chicago, in the course of the
fight against the League of n ltions,
was a constant visitors at Senator
knox's office here in Washington,
vania
This writer's impression is. in
fact, that il was Mr.. Levinson who
| first suggested the idea of the
"outlawry of war" to Senator
Knox
In any case it became apparent
today that while President Hard
| ings proposed international court is
being attacked ferociously and mega
| lively by United States Senators
who wish no court at all, 1t is also
getting attacked ferociously but
distributed propaganda which wishes
to discard the Harding court in
order 10 substitute for it a Knox
| Levinson Borah court
From a New York source this
writer learned today that Mrs.
Dorothy Straight. daughter of Will
| liam G. Whitney, sister OF Payne
Whitney. and of Harry Payne Whit
| ney, and generous supporter of
causes to which she devotes herself,
! has Joined the XLeVinson-
Borah war outlawry" movement.
Movement in Colleges.
! 1T was also learned that in this
countrY's colleges and universities,
which for the most part are heavily
i'm favor OF the Harding court.
lcounteragitation has been started
! under the auspices of the great
reputation of John Dewey, Amer
! ica's most famous educational
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