Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-07

The complete manuscript or Plan
No. 1869 Providing for Cooperation
between the United States and other
nations ito achieve and preserve the
peace of the world" is given below,
including the authors reasoning:
Plan Number 1860 There is Not
Room for More Than One Organic.
alton to Promote international
Cooperation
Five sixths of all nations. includ-
ing about four-fifths of mankind,
have already created Il world-organ-
ization. the purpose of which is to
promote international cooperation
and to achieve international peace
and security"
Those nations cannot and will
not abandon this system which has
now been actively operating for three
and half years. Ii leading members
of the United States Government
ever had serious hopes that another
association of nations could be FORM
ed. such hopes We're dispelled during
the Washington Conference by plain
intimations from other Powers that
there is not room for more than
enc organization like the League of
Nations.
IHc states OulSlttc LAG vi SdIllECu
world are not of such a character
that the United States could hope
fully cooperate with them for the
purpose named.
Therefore, the only possible path
to cooperation in which the United
States can take an increasing share
is that which leads toward some
form of agreement with the world as
now organized, called the League of
Nations.
BY sheer force OF social interna-
tional gravitation such cooperation
becomes inevitable.
The United States Has Already Gone
Far in Cooperation With the
League of Nations
The United States Government.
theoretically maintaining a policy of
isolation. has actually gone far,
since March 4, 1921, toward "coopera-
ton with other nations to achieve
and preserve the peace of the world"
The most familiar part of the
story is the work of the Washington
Conference. wherein President Hard
ing's Administration made n begin
ming of naval disarmament, opened
to China n prospect of rehabilitation
and joined with Great Britain, Japan
ana FRANCE 10 make the racine
Ocean worthy of it's name.
Later came the recommendation
that the United States should adhere
tional Justice.
Not long after that action Presi-
dent Harding wrote to Bishop Gailor:
II do not believe any man can
confront the responsibility of
President of the United States and
yet adhere to the idea that it is
possible for our country to maintain
an attitude of isolation and aloofness
in the world
But since the proposed adhesion to
the Permanent Court would bring
this country into close contact at
one time and point with the League
of Nations, and since such action is
opposed for exactly that
reason. it is pertinent to inquire not
only how much cooperation with the
League and its organs has been
proposed during the life of the pres
ent Administration, but also how
much has been actually begun.
Officially or UnofficialIy the United
States Is Represented on Many
League Commissions
The United States Government has
accredited its representatives to sit
as members "in an unofficial and
capacity" upon four of
the most important social welfare
of the League. viz:
Health. Opium, Traffic in Women
and Children, and Anthrax On
1ustrial Hygiene)
Our Government is a full member
Of the International photographic
Bureau. an organ of the League. Our
Government was represented by an
unofficial observer" in the Brussels
Conference -(Finance and Economic
Commission) in 1920. 1t sent Hon.
Stephen G. Porter and Bishop Brent
10 represent it at the meeting of the
Opium Commission last May.
Our Public Health Service has
taken part in the Sociological Con-
,resses of the Epidemics Commission
md has helped in the experimental |
work for the Standardization or |
Our Government collaborates with |
he League Health Organization /,
through the International Office of |
Public Health at Paris. and with
he Agriculture Committee of the |
League Labor Organization through |
The International Institute of Agri- !
culture at Rome.
In February. 1928. Secretary |
Hughes and President Harding form |
ally recommended that the Senate /,
approve our adhesion to the Perma-
1ent Court under four conditions. or |
one of which was that |
he United States should officially !
participate in the election of judges |
~ the Assembly and Council of the !
league. sitting as electoral colleges
or that purpose.
Unofficial cooperation from the |
United States with the work of the |
league includes membership in five
# the social welfare commissions or
OF the League. in one on