Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-16 | Page 1 | Doomed to Fail, Harvey's View

ilEITIFI, ITS II Covenant as Now Drawn Is '' Lost; Substance to Be ..j . Saved, He Says. CHICAGO, March 15. Colonel George Harvey, editor of the North American Eeview, in an address before a gathering of bankers tonight, declared de-clared tho league of, nations covenant as. drawn "is doomed to failure, " but that "the substance . of the plan has not been and will not be abandoned." . Colonel Harvey, declared that '.' Amer; ica is only a catspaw, " and that no foreign power cared for-the welfare of the United States ami was hot giving a thought to it, except to gain advantage advan-tage and to obtain control of America Amer-ica 's vast resources. Ile asserted at the" outset he would not under any circumstances, "in the coriimo'n phrase, attack the president," but; he asserted, "we are too proud to make -fetich of our chief magistrate and to regard his every act as of origin so nearly approaching ap-proaching divine as to be practically immune even to discussion.'" The speaker sa.id that' the 1 : people were asked "to divest our natioD of its full independence and its most cherished cher-ished tradition, and to . .sacrifice, in part, at least, tmr sovereigpiy..". . . . The present league proposal, he continued, con-tinued, "is perpetual, a coveuaiit from which none if the parties ' can 'withdraw 'with-draw with honor or without in effect (Continued ou Page S, Column. 3.)