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Show H N 4 t H FATAL FLAWS. ' 'TWO points were raised by Republican senators in the debate on 1 JL the League of Nations that show the entangling nature of the K alliance. f Senator Lodge declared that in the new covenant the final word HI on the Monroe doctrine was left to the League. He cited an English official statement which said that in case of dispute as to the interprets interpre-ts tation of the Monroe doctrine the League itself would decide. H By its very nature the Monroe doctrine derives its power from H. the fact that the United States defines and enforces it. If Europe, Hf against which the doctrine is directed, is permitted to interpret it we v shall have the offender acting as judge in his own case. H- It is conceivable that the United States and the states of Central Hi and South America might join to define and enforce the doctrine, but HI it seems preposterous that'Europe should be given any share in the interpretation or administration of it. The effect would be to render be to render the doctrine null. Perhaps that is the purpose of the pro-HT" pro-HT" vision in the revised covenant. H J Another point raised was that the League would be required H( to interfere in case foreigners were attacked in this country. The H definitely set forth and declare that the opponents of the League are H trying to stretch the meaning of certain provisions. One of those H provisions requires the League to intervene whenever anything occurs H that may lead to Avar. Attacks on foreigners is one of the most fertile H sources of war. We have had ample experience of the truth of that H statement in the last half dozen years. Twice in that period we H have waged war against the Mexicans because of attacks on Ameri- H cans. If the United States senate rejects the League of Nations cove- Hf nant the chief blame if it can be called blame will rest upon the H? framers of the covenant. Instead of permitting the senate to suggest Hf amendments which could have been made during the negotiations B the president kept the senate meagerly informed and insisted on in-B in-B rf terweaving the covenant and the treaty of peace in such a way, as B J he himself stated, that they could not be separated. Had it been pos- B sible to raise the points now being raised in the senate and had it fl been possible to secure the necessary changes the senate would now B be in a position to ratify the treaty. B- i Even those Republicans who give their adherence to the theory B of a League of Nations are disinclined to vote for the covenant as it H stands. |