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Show HOW TIMES CHANGE? 'f The old-fashioned League of Nations advocates in the United States Senate seem "to have fallen on evil days. Do you remember ', how rampant and how militant they were when the fight on the j League covenant started in the closing days ofi the Wilson adminis-j tration? How they insisted that we would ultimately have to go into the League to preserve our self-respect and our international morality? Well, times have changed. One of the greatest knights of the League in those days was j Senator Walsh of Montana. But now Senator Walsh is advocating', the League court, because, as he says, it is not controlled by the League, and is perfectly independent of it. In an address delivered in the Senate last week Senator Walsh j said: "It is absurd to speak of the World Court as being a depart-; ment of the League of Nations by reason of the advisory opinions, and charged that assrtions coupling by the League and the World Court constitution were being recklessly made and memdaciously repeated. re-peated. Now, if entering the League of Nations were so good a thing back in 1920, why is it not as desirable today and why is that valiant leaguers like Senator Walsh are so vehemently asserting that the League and the League Court have .nothing in common? Either they have changed their minds, which is doubtful, or they are anxious to get the United States in as far as Possible in the hopel that another little push later on will plunge us all the way into the international morass. The moral is that we .want to be sure we know where we are going before we start. |