Show Fetter Hun First Then Talk League Lodges Lodge's o Warning I By Associated Press W WASHINGTON Feb Sharp differences of opinion over the league of nations s constitution were voiced In the senate today by Chairman Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- cock of the foreign relations committee and Senator Lodge of Massachusetts who will be chairman of the committee In thE next congress when the Republicans Republicans Re- Re publicans take control I After Senator Lodge had delivered a prepared speech before crowded floor and galleries warning the American pEople to tD weigh the he constitution and Insist upon revision Mr Hitchcock took the floor and denounced as preposterous preposterous pre pre- I the Massachusetts senators senator's suggestion that the league would dep deprive de- de p ye th the United nite S States of its ts r right of self J I desire saw said Hitchcock to repudiate the suggestion that the league would in the slightest degree limit the privilege ge and the duty of any nation the United States other to defend Itself when attacked and to protect its territory and rights when invaded In either by a member of the league ue or not Senator Lodge replied that the committee committee com com- chairman was entitled d to an honest difference of opinion The conflict con con- Senator Lodge declared illustrated illus illus- and emphasized necessity for redrafting the league charter to make dispute of construction impossible I Lets have h It stated In the conI contract con con- I tract just what It means said Senator Senator Sena- Sena tor Lodge When war starts replied Senator Hitchcock the right of self defense supersedes everything else and the senator knows it It Expressing complete sympathy with efforts to arrange world peace Senator Son Son- ator Lodge Insisted that the agreement for tor such a concert should be drawn f up calmly and deliberately when the world was at peace and not hastily when war still st existed DECLARES TIME WASTED I Senator Lodge urged that the nation nation na- na tion think well before departing from fromI I the policies of Washington and said I the paramount duty now was to conI conclude con con- clude peace with Germany j. j I I Much time has been wasted he said The delays have bred restless restless- I i mess ness and confusion everywhere Geri Germany Ger- Ger many Is lifting her head again restless I The whimpering after defeat is changing to threats h S She is seeking to annex nine n millions r ns of Germans er in German i Austria She is reaching out In Rus- Rus RusI I sla sia and reviving her financial and commercial penetration everywhere I Germany Is again threatening and andI I Ithe I the only source of a great war Is to i be found for tor the f future ture as for the I past in if Germany She should be chained and fettered now There is an issue involved In the I league constitution presented to us which overshadows all Others continued continued con con- Senator Lodge We Ve are I asked to depart for the first time I from the foreign policies of Washing Washing- I ton toward the end of the line I J I at which stands the sinister figure I t i ot of the champion ot of Inter Inter- I nationalism I PAUSE AND I I We Ve have in this country COlu a government gov- gov of the people for the the people I I and by the tho people pe the freest free and I I I best government I the world worl and j jr j I r we are arc the great rampart today against the anarchy and disorder which have taken possession of Russia Russia Rus- Rus sia and are trying to invade every other peaceful country in the world For Lincoln's government we are asked to substitute on many vital points government for and by other peoples Pause and consider well before you ou take this fateful step Ye We must build no bridges across the chasm which now separates American American Amer- Amer ican freedom and order from Russian anarchy and destruction Ye We must see t oit that the democracy of the United States is not drawn b by any hasty error or by any glittering delusions de- de through h specious devices of government government toils of international S So anarchy Amendments proposed Lodge included a excluding the Monroe d do dothe the tho leagues league's purview Th could be done In three 11 gration and other intern questions and those vit vitals ll existence also should b from the leagues league's 1 i adding some There should be som d vision for fo peaceful the league ot of any nation ll to withdraw 4 Let us have ha a as to whether the league J an International force o ois fo fois I is to have the power tots tos armed forces of the bers bels 1 I Le Let it be stated In pia whether the measures or o I executive council are to tot toton on members and are re to c cc to do what the league d del l executive council Unless some better cons COIl consa a league than this can AbE seems to me that 1 I peace will w be much bet bet more surely surel promoted b the United States to go on I Monroe doctrine peace of this l hemisphere t I danger of collision with Eu questions among the varl various u states and if a league i Is might be made up by the whose Interests Ala a nations which concerned and with I States could cooperate ful any time whenever co cooP needed |