The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-05
KEEPING UP
With
THE NE WIS
BY LUDWELL DENNY

! ded by attacks on the KEEL
logg anti-war pact as a snare of
dangerous foreign commitments,
the administration is moving to
head off a Senate fight against rati-
fication such as kept us out of the
League of Nations.
In addition TO Secretary Kellogg,
now on his way back from EuropesS
former Secretary of State Hughes
and Senator Borah, powerful chief
Of the Foreign Relations Committee,
have been recruited to take the
offensive in an appeal to the
/ country.
This treaty offensive will be car
ried on as part of the Republican
election campaign. Just as the
Washington Naval Limitation treaty
was used in the last national cleo
ton as campaign proof of alleged
superior Republican diplomatic skill
and leadership toward world peace,
the Kellogg pact will be used by
party stump speakers and broad
casters during the next two months.
Such tactics are considered of
major Importance from a party
point of view for the following
reasons:
l. The Democrats have indicated
by their Houston platform and the
Smith acceptance speech that they
consider the administrations record
in foreign affairs one of its most
vulnerable points of attack. Demo-
Gratis are emphasizing the alleged
discrepancy between Republican
professions of peaceful foreign
policy and the administrations So
called attempt to drag us into an
oil war with Mexico, its lack of full
cooperation with the Chinese Ma
tionalist government, and it's pres
ent 'imperialistic war" against the
Nicaraguan revolutionistS.
In rebuttal the Republicans will
point out that Ambassador Morrow
has initiated the most friendly re-
lations with Mexico that have exist
ed in two decades, and that this
Government was the first to rec
ognize" the new Chinese regime.
They will answer that the Wilson
administration set the pace for
Marine intervention in Mexico.
Haiti, the Dominican Republic and
Nicaragua.
| RUT, realizing that the best de-
II Tense is attack and that de.
mails never catch up with charges,
the administration campaign STRAIT
egg is to say as little as possible
about all other phases of foreign
policy and as much as possible
about "the epoch-making achieve
ment Of Secretary Kellogg and the
Git is hoped nations Of the world to
renounce war as an instrument OF
national policy"
2. The Kellogg treaty is be
lieved by G. o. P. tacticians to be
the best bet possible with which 70
catch women voters, who are going
to play such large part, at least
numerically, in this election. They
say Hoover already has the edge on
the woman vote, thanks to his hui
manitarian war work and to the
fact that he is not professional
politician.
If, added to that attraction, the
Republicans with the anti-war pact
can capitalize for campaign pur-
poses what generally is accepted as
the Predominant peace interest"
of women voters. they figure I'd
carry several States now danger-
ously flirting with AL Smith.
3. Because the Democratic plat
form declares for the principle of
the Kellogg treaty the Republicans
are confident they can prevent this
from becoming a party issue. In
deed, the most outspoken opposition
so far has come from old-line Re-.
| publican newspapers and indie
pendent experts, headed by Edwin
M. Borchard, professor of Interna-
tional Law at Yale University.
The fact that Republicans DELHI
erately plan to use the anti-war
treaty for partisan political pur-
poses does not mean that it was
conceived for that purpose or that It
is principally valued by its authors
in that light. 0"
EVEN the most cynical oppo-
~ nents of the treaty who have
talked with Secretary Kellogg do
not doubt his tremendous-what
some have called fanatical-sin-
certify and fat hin his pact.
Senator Borah preached the idea
for two years before the State de-
partment took it up. On returning
to Washington yesterday he an
nounced he would defend the treaty
in his campaign speeches and that
he was certain of it's ratification by
the Senate.
This treaty will be as effective
for peace as any treaty for war has
been in the past" according to the
Senator. can army cannot be used
for war without the force Of public
opinion, and this agreement Of the
nations will make it harder for min
istries to sway public opinion for
war"
Here is the heart of the opposi-
ton, as stated by Borchard:
"The original proposition of MIR.
Kellogg was an unconditional re-
nunciation of war. The treaty now
qualified by the French and British
reservations constitutes no renuncia-
ton or outlawry of war, but in tact