| Show Rejection League Covenant Declared M Most st Tragic Blunder in U. U S. S History Theodore Marburg former minister minis minis- tel ter er to Belgium asked th the annu annual l meeting of the Woodrow v Wilson p Democracy In iu New ew York if all ath tl t that ut t was was' was vas done at eh 1 ence could not have been accomplished accomplished accomplished also alao under American leadership leadership leadership lead lead- two years earlier if th the tha United States had entered th the league eague of nations The senates senate's rejection of or the league eague covenant he called the most tragic ragic blunder our country has ever made If the treaties that came out of Washington had been made within the he league Mr Marburg said there would be some continuing central body charged with the duty ind md clothed with the power to u violation of law and this he believed believed be- be was lacking in the arms conference conference con con- on- on ference agreements 1 Unless the substance of the treaty reaty relating to the employment of f submarines and poisonous gases in n war is taken up and adopted by the he league we are likely to find the treat treaty reaty little more than a pious wish We Ve are soon forgotten and certain to tobe tobe tobe be ignored should another war come come come-as as it will come unless we titre help organize to prevent it It he said It Is more and more evident that this his league of nations not nations not some league eague of nations nations nations-Is is the hope of the he world he remarked asking there were not innumerable ways to cooperate with the league without joining it In this connection Mr Marburg said President Harding had lad more than once pronounced publicly In favor of an association of f nations to discourage war and that Secretaries Hughes and Hoover er were firm believers In the prin prin- ciple Where then is th the difficulty ho lie Inquired k Granted the administration think they have a mandate to keep out of the league surely they do not go so far tal as to In Interpret Interpret interpret In- In the presidential veto to kill kili the league To bring back to Europe a sense sense of ol political security Is far more im Im- im- im than to suggest economic remedies es or to distribute alms the speaker said The fact is that while the American n people have hav been ma making lug a 1 mot most generous effort under under under un un- I der the direction of Mr H Hoover to ov r to feed reed the ne needy dy of Europe w we are I mor mar than nullifying that effort by our political attitude which is rei re- re retarding j i the general of I Europe Mr Marburg said that since the armistice America had spent probably probably probably proba proba- I bly on me tae swollen navy and mercantile marine marme and the I he tho thought the bulk of the expenditure expenditure expendi expendi- ture had been worse than useless Our naval program set the pace for navy building elsewhere while the peoples people's money spent on the mercantile marine has simply served served served ed to make shipping hipping unprofitable elsewhere he said Had these I millions been loaned Joanes to Europe not directly by our government but through the instrumentality of or banks and marked ear-marked for the purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase here of the raw materials so badly need needed d abroad how much further on the road to recovery the world would be today Mr Marburg criticized the mischievous mischievous mischievous mis chievous device of favoring savoring American American American Ameri Ameri- can bottoms by means of special rates on railroad shipment for exports He predicted It would certainly bring discrimination on foreign ships and pleaded for a greater sense of International decency decency decency de de- de- de on th the part of our lawmakers a little more ability to put themselves themselves themselves them them- selves in the other fellows fellow's shoes The meeting adopted a resolution requesting Cordell Hall chairman of the Democratic national committee to call a conference of the Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party to formulate a a apro program program pro pro- gram and platform to serve as a basis for an appeal to the voters of the country Another resolution directed the executive committee to complete the organization of the Massachusetts branch of a body in order to take an active part to accomplish accomplish accomplish ac ac- ac- ac the tho defeat of Henry Cabot Lodge for the United States senate |
