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Itself at about the time when the State
Department came under his care. The
Hughes of 1915 would have plunged
himself into a futile fight with the
United States Senate in 1921 on the
theme of the League of Nations. In
1920 Mr.. Hughes had indeed committed
himself to the proposition that vote
for Harding for President was vote
for q concrete-paved. geranium- LINED
highway to Gensva. He even. after be-
coming President Hardings Secretary
Of State. addressed himself for some
weeks to the task of stirring American
antidotes into the broth Of the treaty
of Vesailles in order TO make the treaty
and the covenant of the League palat-
able 10 the indigenous senatorial sense
Of taste.
Then came his great betrayal" of the
American pro-ieague theorists. They
were theorists because they wanted to
spend two or three years in the Senate
kicking up dust and getting nowhere.
Mr. Hughes, bookworfn and data deliver
as he was, intellectually opinionated and
obstinate as he was-and is--had now
learned also that the school Of life in
cluded "the other boys" He had learned.
particularly. in this instance that "the
DN14ET DDNh III k&sE 0a1ASCQ 2lAOGe 0@A4dbE
would never let the covenant OF the
League get by their gantlet line alive
Ee turned. abruptly. resiiiently. from
Geneva. He abandoned the pursuit of
organized internationalism eastward He
gazed westward at the Pacific. He des-
cried path toward organized interna-
tionaIisn there. He summoned the Arms
Conference Of 1921 and out OF it drew
the four-power pact between the United
States, Japan. Britain and France.
which--to any blown-in-the-bottle and
fossiliZe6-in-t fe-fire anti-leaguer like
me--is Just as much fundamental de-
parture from isolation" as the league
Itself.
certainly adnired-and admire
with feelings Of crushed and frustrated
and applauding resentment -- the
readiness and briskness and utter supple
success with which MIR. Hughes be-
trayeo" the "internationalists" only In
order TO outwit and outf1ank us "isoia-
tionists' for the benefit of "interna-
tionalisn" and international law and
order"
Advocated League Court.
He then thereafter proceeded to argue
President Harding into recommending
American membership In the Leagues
Permanent Court Of International Jus
tice. There was no real demand for this
move in high Republican political cir
cles In general. Most Republican Eena-
tors we're perfectly willing 10 let the
court degenerate the globe without our
help. Except for President Harding's
recommendation Of it. the Republican
side of the Senate would have slain the
court IN 80 minutes, Most Of President
Harding's intimate personal friends
zrE ~ sYsa tn ua F~f
but thoroughly hostile to IT, President
Harding's wife was bitterly opposed TO
H. She used 70 get Senators to dine
with the President and warn him
against the court. No use Mr.. Hughes
wanted it, and Mr.. Hughes won; and
there you arei
II there is one thing Of which as an
obscure historian OF sublime cotempor-
sry events, I am sure, 1t Is this: That
without Mr. Hughes we would not today
be even within reckoning or hallooing
distance Of the court. The only alloy in
my rejoicing over the high honor which
@1ll now be his aS 9 member Of the
court Is that / fear he now somehow
or other viii magnetic as into IL.
Hughes al Havana.
have seen him do that nagnetizing
Of his. II liv0 10 be hundred years old
j sIAdI ktEA- G&pEIb EFfE dBdul 10 SEE
anybody 50 great 80 grand, so godlike
as was Mr.. Hughes at Havana In the
Sixth international Conference Of
American States last Winter
Think what he had 10 encounter Al
Secretary ~ State he had continuously
maintained that the Latin American
countries near our borders must conduc'
their internal domestic affairs IN al
approximately legal and constitutional
manner il they wished recognition anc
genuine international fellowship from
lis. II was his conviction that only III
teinal constitltionality in Latin Amer
gca could produce the 0rdcrlinesa anE
ueacefulness which could IN turn rendel
Unnecessary prevent intervention
and conquest by the United States IL
lectured Latin America and EXTENDED
his state Department diplomatic arm
into Latin America precisely IN orde
10 foreStali and abolish American mlli
tary imperialism there.
But how different 70 explain ina
policy--that intention~to incfeoulou
beneficiaries Of II
Al the last plepary session % TN
Havana conference weeks 0
work which began for him daily at