Evening star., 1924-05-24
Lodge Plan for World Court
Arouses Suspicion of Press

Senator Lodges plan for world
court meets with almost unanimous
disapproval of the nations press.
Many editors regard is as the cam
paign answer which Republican lead
ers are making to the demands of
thousands Of their own voters that
something must be done with refer
ence to the world court. At best, it
is a mere subterfuge to keep this
country out of any kind of a world
court, many claim.
"If presumptuousness is a virtue in
international relations" according to
the Cleveland Plain Dealer Gnde-
pendent Democratic), Henry Cabot
and Senate-controlled world court
has superlative merit" That it will
be taken seriously by the American
people, the New Orleans Times-Pica-
yune independent Democratic) says.
lis scarcely conceivable" This is
also the opinion of the Duluth Herald
independently, which declares: The
question before the House is not
| whether a world court shall be cre-
ated. A world court has been Gre
ated. The question is whether this
country is going to do it's decent
| for peace and order by joining that
court Instead of accepting the
court, and admitting that one and
three equal four" the Reading Trib-
une independently claims Mr.. Lodge
urges substitution in the form of
| new court at The Hague, and ad-
mits finally that two and two equal
four" The Lincoln Star Gndepend-
en) feels that common sense should
tell Senator Lodge and his associates
IF hn
give up their league and the world
court for the sake of gaining Amer
lean support, which they know from
the previous attitude of this country
is upheld by the Indianapolis News
Independently, Which believes the
Lodge fashion in world courts will
not be widely popular" 1t would be
too much, the Sioux City Journal
(Republican) insists, to demand of
another arrangement wholly in the
interest of this government. or it
might be better to say, of the Senate
irreconcilables."
In fact, the other nations, continues
the Minneapolis Tribune CRepub-
lican), would be justified in thinking
that a proposal of an entirely new
adjudicatory body is close to an I'M
pertinence"; furthermore, there is a
wide reach of considered judgment
in this country that will put down
against Senator Lodge that he is over
cautious in this case" A plan that
forces of the earth, the Lansing State
Journal independently holds, sis not
one that will tend toward pacifism,"
for lit will only show the weakness
| of such an aspiration and encourage
wipe out war" but "perhaps that is
the purpose Of the Lodge action" AL
though the Lincoln State Journal Gin
dependent Republican, does not like
to think this is the senator's intent. it
Lodge proposal may have is to fur
nish certain senators means of de-
feating the world court proposal
while seeming to be for world
independent Democratic) agrees .'it
is not solution-it is a stall" The
Lynchburg Advance (Democratic)
also declares rit is nothing more than
trickery to defeat ,t, the will of the
that is really served by the proposal,
says the Albany Knickerbocker Press
independent Republican,, "is to
muddle the world0court question in
the public mind" and, perhaps that
10 w WhoI Ills nc" PAoh 10 W
do" The Milwaukee journal Gnde-
pendent) asks will Lodges party be
his tools and take up his wrecking
program"
III President Coolidge is to repu-
diate the Harding Hughes plan for
American. adherence to the existing
world court, which he approved in
his speech at the Associated Press
| luncheon, and at the behest of the
malignant Lodge is to identify him.
self with the sham makeshift of a
| farcica gesture to set up a new
world court" the Louisville Courier
Journal (Democratic) maintains. 'he
will disillusionize the great mass of
the American people who have been
| looking to him confidently for better
thingA" AS the Buffalo News Gre
pubIcan) sees 1t, Senator Lodge 'in
this Is disloyal to his party-disloyal
to every fine impulse born Of the suf-
fering and sorrow of the war;" and.
he 10 q wrecker of good works."