The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-27
LEAGUE COURT ISSUE MAY SPLIT CABINET.
 OBSERVERS DECLARE
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tSOntInuc0 From HnXc OncD organized the Hoover clubs in 1920 to promote your nomination for the presidency as a prologue republi- can and as an opponent of Hiram Johnson on the league issue in the California primaries"
 Points To Discrepancies.
 Holt quoted from Hoover's Des Moines address and Hardng's New York speech Tuesday to point out the apparent discrepancies in the view of the secretary and the Presi dent.
 Hoover, he said. while declaring American entry into the world court would not mean joining the League of Nations. took a fling at those peo- pie "to whom the league is such an athena that even its many good acts are bad"
 Ut seems reasonable to infer from your Des Moines speech" Holt wrote to Hoover, that you hold the estab- lishment of the world court is one of the first steps in necessary world
 
 Nations has many good acts to it's credit.
 While you and President Harding seem to be in substantial accord in your advocacy of the court, you are apparently at variance as to the role the United States should play in re- spect to the league and world or ganization. The President presum- ably looks to Americas adhesion to the court as the fulfillment of his and his party's campaign pledges You evidently look at 1t only as the first step in the movement for world organization and peace.
 Promised League Action.
 We all remember how, on October 20 1920, you signed a long and req soned statement to your countrymen urging them to vote for MT. Harding on the ground that his election would bring the United States into the league.
 You did not say you thought or hoped this would be the case; you gave your personal guaranty that MT. Harding would go into the league.
 And yet MT. Harding now assures the people, whom you told to vote for
 
 for the league, that 1t meant Just the opposite.
 If you will permit me to say so, MT. Hoover, this Is your opportunity to state whether you are still loyal to the league. l cannot conceive that you will remain silent on this great issue and leave the inference that you are willing to subordinate your convictions to personal or party ad- vantage"
 Urges League.
 Manley o. Hudson, Harvard law professor, and formerly a member of the secretariat of the League of Ma tions, declared Thursday that Hard ing was right in saying the United states could join the world court without entering the league. But it would be better to participate in both court and league, he maintained.
 If the acceptance of President Harding's proposal is not paramount, It IS nevertheless the first step to- ward construction of a sound foreign policy on the part of the United States" he asserted. But there will still remain many disputes of non- legal nature which cannot be settled oy court. Such disputes must go before bodies which in their make up are not bound by limitations of a court. We need. in addition to the court, machinery for conciliation, ad- justment and compromise. such ma- chinery exists. maintained by 52 peo- pie, of whom the American people are not one.
 The essential first step Is the ac- ceptance of the court, but 1t should be followed with an essential second step which will redeem President Harding's promise of an Association or Nations by supporting the exist ing League of Nations"