Show HOOVER ADVISES RATIFICATION OF NATIONS NATIONS' LEAGUE i f I rotes Former Fonner er ert Food rood Administrator t Favors Elimination of Antic Article Ie X A XI I New York June 0 ii 2 25 f V Speedy 1110 it of O Ol t tile he treaty o OL UL v ers uia u iiii the elimination of oC article X S of oC the tho leac of nations covenant co was urged by Herbert C C. Hoover In n a statement published today In the New ew York Fork Bv EvenIng Even Even- n- n Ing Even ing Post as the tho platform on which the Republican party part should hould stand in tho the coming presidential election Mr Hoover took tho the stand that tho the Implied d threat of oC employment of oC military military mili mili- tary force to guarantee the integrity of oC foreign states was wal out of oC place In a league which he declared was wa tho product o of the liberal Ideals of oC tho the world The Thc s 's s power ho he de declared declared de- de would he more mure potent If IC tho the threat of ot military force were were wee removed and the league ue relied rolled wholly or its moral md and a d economic power power It It appears to do me mc to lie he time to raise ralo the question ald hl Mr 11 Hoover Hoo fis ras S to whether wh this cause causo I 1 refer to to- to the tho guarantees and to the use of oC tary force that force that has bro brought ht jabout the they dissension in the United States is not also al o undermining tho the lea league ue in Europe Hay Has not c experience and dis dis discussion cu loJ shown that the time has arrived ar arC arr arrived ar- ar r rived C to 10 tiis titis part of ur the lc ue l foundation X Need to Control Armament rm rn nh o. o The basic basc need for tor such a alliance Mr I Hoover cr pointed d out w vas vasto s sto to control stales states which persist In armament armament arma arma armament ment AX which hit h vendors lenders them capable of or ora a re c e action Ile J Ie declared me and ann ano foremost duty of or the ln league was reduction of oC nil all armaments and he 5 1 suggested that Americas continuance as a n. league m member r bo ho conditional on the thc achieve o achievement ment 0 of a reduction within a specified time Mr fr Hoover d declared that s sooner sooner or later the thc United must raU ratify the tho tr treaty treats of ot Versailles in some somo sorno form and and that talk of oC negotiating a new T treat treaty was bunk The treat treaty of oC Versailles he saMIs said saM Is Is the charter of Independence of po orPo Po land Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia and Finland and I the warrant of oC increased national territory territory ter ter- of several great reat nations I It la Is the guarantee of oC the disarmament disarmament ment of to tour four r great reat autocracies and no I European nation Is going oln to risk their I revival It is a a. mortgage upon tho the enemy states and th thOy are arc n not noC t going to offer otter the opportunity to Germany German Austria Hungary Hungar Turkey and Bulgaria Bul Bul- garia arJa to escape U their lr debts by Intrigue at it a new peace Jenco conference Co Covenant X IN I IThe The league of oC nations covenant co I Is Isan isan an m essential part of or tho the treaty It Jl does doe possess two functions First it gives Alves tho the title to mandates it today governs erns certain neutralized areas It ramifies the scorn of oC details of oC settlement settlement settlement set set- with enemy states Its Ita 8 second ond function unction Is Is its Ita provisions for prevention prevention on tion of oC future war Tho The first phase I can no 1 more be reopened than tho the thoI treaty Itself The Tho second function re relate ro- ro late lat to the tho future futuro and find is subject to amendment It can bo boo amended by the tho league organization organisation Itself In In tho the face of or these conditions he concluded cannot tho Republican party part strengthen Its itA own position by adopting tho the definite definite- ito constructive polIcy policy pol pol- Ic icy of ratification subject to tho the minor reservations and antI a wider vision of or strengthening the league b- b by excluding fh th K iii T-O T n I n Ind their military on- on fn U o g buCO and forcemeat and making membership In Inthe inthe the tho league e conditional upon disarmament mont ment within a L given period Such policies polIcies policies pol pol- will protect American Independence independence dence free ur un ii from crom every cry entanglement except the use of oC our moral and economic economic eco eco- I strength th to enforce peace It ItI I will l leave vc dui ut Democratic tlc frien dk lone fenc- I in iner upon tho the ground of advocacy of ot a aI aI I practical military alliance upon alliance upon upon which I their safety devices only onh further en endanger endanger on- on I dan danger cr the tho real value e of ot tho the league |