| Show PEOPLE INSIST ON PEACE WARNS HITCHCOCK Senators c Opposing Nation x League Are Shar Sharply ly l' l Criticised ay Press TV WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Feb Peace S.-Peace with the league or war and preparations preparations for war without it the Inter Inter- of peace and justice or orthe the he Internationalism ot of the Socialist the anarchist and the Bolshevist are the the alternatives before the world declared declared de- de Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska chairman of the senate foreign relations relations rela- rela committee In an address Thurs Thurs- da clay to the senate The proposed league Senator Hitchcock Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- cock asserted would render war between between be- be tween members as nearlY Impossible as human agencies can devise He spoke ot of the growth of Socialism and the popular demand for relief relict from war and its sacrifices and said peoples throughout the world If denied measures measures meas- meas ures for peace would violently protest and seize power Senators who have opposed the league draft the Nebraska member asserted asserted as- as would be opposed to any league JIe charged that In their attacks those senators had magnified its dangers and that they quibble and split hairs Replying to a a. reference to Americanism Americanism Ameri- Ameri as opposed to Internationalism If a a. recent speech ot of Senator Borah ot of Idaho who quoted Colonel Roosevelt Senator Hitchcock said the former president had favored a a. league of nations nations na- na to enforce peace not not only by moral force orce but by military strength and expressed the belief beliet that if he were alive Colonel Roosevelt would be found supporting the league as ardently ardently ar- ar I dently as President Wilson Vilson I Suggestions that Mexico might join In imposing conditions on this country were ridiculed by the senator Mexico was not eligible for membership membership member member- ship because she could not give the requisite guarantees ot of her Intention and ability to comply with International al obligations Senator Hitchcock answered in detail detail de- de tail the recent criticisms of Senators Borah and Cummins of Iowa Republicans Republicans and Reed of MissourI Demo Demo- crat Some of their contentions he characterized as ridiculous and ab- ab surd lIe He said it was not true that the league plane pans would destroy the Monroe doctrine or depart from Washington's Washington's Wash Wash- ington's foreign policy and like President President Pres- Pres ident Wilson he took position that the world powers would add to the Monroe doctrines guarantee Pointing out that the league charter was tentative and still subject to amendment Mr Hitchcock praised the plan for an executive council conferring confer ring permanent powers upon the five principal nations In In the attacks on the league he said opponents s apparently had considered Every suggestion of its control except that it might be controlled by the great self governing democracies of world that established it It |
