New Britain herald., 1926-01-27
BINGHAM SPEAKS
 FOR WORLD COURT
EXplOdes Belief Washington Op-
 posed Foreign Alliances
GEOpGE Y. MANNING

(Washington Bureau Of N. B, Herald0
 Washington. D, C., Jan. 27 W)-- Senator Hiram Bingham refuted the oft repeated claim that the senators of tho old school stood by George l Wash!ngton's warning against en- tanglng international alliances by | reading 10 the senate during debate over the World Court yesterday an excerpt from a speech delivered in New Haven twenty years ago by the late Senator Orville II. Platt of Con- necticut, one of the greatest leaders who have occupied seats in tho United States senate.
 Senator Plat realized that times had changed, Senator Bingham as- serted, and that the United States could not live to itself alone,
 Senator Bingham said in part
 "I desire to present a few remarks in reply to two arguments that have been used by the opponents of the World Court First. it has been claimed that leaders of the republi- can party in times gone by have been opposed 10 action of this kind. Second. they are opposed because Washington in his farewell address and Jefferson in his inaugural ad- dress were opposed to alliances with foreign nations.
 "In reading the life of the late Oville H, Platt, one of my most dis tinguished predecessors. I came across a very interesting reference to our foreign relations which seem- ed to me to bear directly on those two arguments which have been used.
 In the first place, 1t will be recog- nized by those who knew him and those who remember him that MT Platt was one of the leaders of the , republican party for great many years. He sat In this chamber fol over 25 years. He died while still g r member of the Senate of the United States.
 Senator Plat was robus r American who never had the slight p est predilection in favor of any for ' cign country. who fought here fo !, the right of AmeIca, and who hat ,, the respect and admiration of sucl # robust Americans as the late Sena |, tor Lodge and the late Senate n Brandegee,
 Particularly I want to call at tention to the fact that in the latte n part of his life Senator Platt realize .c that in our relations to other na , tions the universal rule of natur ,- applied. We can not remain sta 70 tionary; we must go forward or r ,- treat. He held that to be a men ;. Der of the family of nations col l. ferred responsibilities and create ID duties, and that these duties core
 bonded with our ability and powt
 In speech which he made i'll NJ . Haven in January. 1903, he I
 ferred to the fact that people we
 objecting to our getting more a
 more involved with foreign natiol
 claiming that we should have no e
 dangling alliances, Certaln peoi
 seem to him to have an obsessi'
 about the awful perils of foreil
 alliances, and to them this robl
 American rcplied
 Precisely how this notion of O
 supposed policy grew up it Is pt
 haps difficult to explain.
 And now, I come to the seco
 part of the argume nt, to which itb am replying, the part partlcula III, referring to Washington's Farew nit Address and Jefferson's first ina, st ural address. Senator Platt said ,t's his speech at New Haven: all "'The sentences in Washingto 0 at Farewell Address and in Jefferso ,rk first inaugural message with ref ,op ence to alliances with European
 tions have doubtless been relied