The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
MAYOR HAYES OPPOSES CITY MANAGER PLANI
WHAT IS AIM
 OF WORLD COURT
To Prevent Wars or Make United States a Party
 to Quarrels
CONFLICTING OPINIONS

Court? COme claim its aim IS 10 prevent vars. and also state that If the United States becomes q men, Der of it and does not like what 1t does our government will not be bound by it's decision. This sounds all right. but is 1t true. Others contend that it Is but another scheme of getting the United States in a position where 1t will be a party 10 European brawls when ever they occur. In other words it is claimed that it is some- thing like what was worked during the World war. The allies first wanted nothing but the sympathy of the United States. After they had that, they found a little money would cc,ne in handy and it was furnished in quantities so large that one would have to be expert in ma thematics to figure up the total Was that all? No the next appeal was for men, and they wanted them quickly. too. Their backs were against tne wall and if the United States did not hurry up it would be too late and our money would stand q chance of being lost.
 Well the United States made all possible haste and turned the tide in favor of the allies. It had about three million of the flower of the young men of our country over there or ,eady to go across. The bones of many of these boys are over there yet and will remain there until the resurrection day. What did the United States get Tor all this sacrifice in blood and tears not to say anything at all about money.
 G., ~fx ,.A anyway? Here are few paragraphs of Ralph Burton, of Washington, printed i'll the Congressional Record of January 21st on request of Sena- tor Dill:
 World Court is patently mis- homer, which is misleading to those who are asked to support it, and to believe in 1t as an independent and impartial judicial tribunal to which the nations of the world may look, without fear or favor. for the just and equitable determination of !n- ternational disputes. League Court Is a more appropriate appellatiop. and the one used in practically all European countries today, with the added advantage that it prevents this court from being confused with N- is so often done in the United States. "This then, is What the World Court really is, and thus do we find ourselves today, presented with q proposition on the part of European nations to do what. through the de- cades of our meteoric rise to the most enviable position among the na tons of the world, we have stead | fastly refused to do, and that is to
 become cntangled in an alliance de-
 veloped out of the chaos in Europe | by adherence to the World Court, technically known as the Permanent Court of International Justice, a de-
 partment of the League of Nations
 membership in which this Nation re-
 fused by an overwhelming majority
 only few years ago.
 European nations now seek to | embroil us in their problems for | which we are in no way responsible. each with the hope. no doubt, that our resources might be enlisted to relieve their burdens regardless of what disaster would be wrought tC us Brought forth under the guise of war prevention guarantees and assurances of world peace, those schemes have been accepted by thousands of our people without even attempting an analysis which would clearly show that, instead of a gurantee of peace. 1t is almost an assurance that in any conflict in Europe C., elsewhere our Army and our Navy and our men can be i'm pressed into service to compel obed- fence to the mandates of the League of Nations, bolstered up by the judi cial decrees of it's selfcreated so- called World Court in which the voice of tkis Nation would be feeb!y heard through the medium of one vote of ore member. himself elected and paid by that same League of Ma tions, which not only will tell us tc fight but when to fight and where to fight, though 1t is our own men who do that fighting.
 "Let us consider some of the ob- jections to the World Court.
 The assembly of the League of Ma tions makes the laws under which the court operates. We would there fore have no voice whatever in the making Of the laws under which it would render its decisions.
 ..We would have but vote against E4 votes in the assembly of the league ard but 1 vote against 10 in the council of the league: and in the World Court (so calledD we would have but vote against 10 others"
 After reviewing other provisions of the World Court and showing that in case we should disagree with the court the only open door would be a passage at arms with all the other nations against us. the sena- tor asks the following pertinent question which the reader may an- swer to suit his own view of the case.
 Is there, after all. any reason why the United States should yield tp the wishes of group of foreign nations banded together in a. league to submit its problems to their court? 1t means surrendering our sacred independence to court which, statements to the contrary notwithstanding, Is admittedly creature If the League of Nations, that same league which provides for ar international military force to effect its mandates"