Show Tl The Ie P Presidents President re u J l t s W War ar P Powers a II ml BERI ER may have b been n justification for the lents s ent s seto veto eto of the Knox peace resolution on the thet t ground that flint it was an invasion pasion of his concep conceptions i ms that J f the only way to make mako peace with Germany was through J Ike Mie treaty which winch lie he brought back from Paris but the thet t his Jor- Jor his failure to approve the tho bill abro abrogating ting the war powers of the thc President is not so sot sot t easily tU understood d Charles E. E Hughes speaking speaking- at the centenary of g Harvard I urd r law Jaw school school i in Cambridge Mass Mas has this to toI I fray n about the continuance of or autocratic war powers i after peace has been established c Wc went to war for lIberty and democracy with the I result that we t fed d the autocratic appetite and through h a I fiction permissible only because the courts cannot know what every one ono ole else knows w we have seen the tho war powers I 5 which aro are essential to the tho preservation of or the nation In I time of or war exercised broa broadly after alter the tho military exigency had passed and in conditions for which they were never ne intended and we may well wonder in view of or the i now established whether constitutional government i i as ns heretofore maintained In this thin republic could survive f another great war even victoriously waged Apart tr from ln I these conditions we cannot afford to Ignore the tho indica- indica a tion that perhaps to an extent unparalleled in our his his- I lor tory lory the tho essentials of ot liberty are arc being disregarded i I Just w wl Y the President nt desires to tor r retain tain in a n. time lime of profound peace all aU the powers which a patriotic ConJ Congress Con- Con J gress ress conferred upon him to make him as commander in 4 c chief r. r of or th the arm army ar and l nav navy y efficient is a ri rid rid- Sic 1 which time must solve |