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Show SEN. JOHNSON I DENOUNCES THE ! WORLBLEAGUE PROVIDENCE, R. I.. July 7 Senator Sen-ator Hiram W. Johnson of California, spoakinc tonitht, dcrlarcd the pinpos-led pinpos-led leacue of nations wa.s not in reality 'an association lo prevent war but "a I leacue ot" armed nations in a gigantic war trust." "In its very creation,'1 he added. "It has been .-tripped of every idealistic purpose it ever had. It contains with In itself the element of many wars, and worse than that, it rivets as in the I Shantung decision, the chains of tyranny tyr-anny upon millions of people and m-ments m-ments for all thne unjust and wicked annexations. "This league of nations, wllh the men who really wrote it. was meant I to obtain peace only insofar as peace maintained forever inviolate ihcir territories ter-ritories and their subject peoples; and Hi was meant that this kind of peace i should be obtained by the r-xerr ise of the power and the force of the United ! States." Summing up his arraignment of the league covenant, the senator said: I ' It means ih.it I must abandon thr j lessons of my youth which until this moment hae been the creed of my 'manhood of American ideals and American patriotism; that I must i deny Americanism I taught my chll-idren chll-idren and that under God's blessing I jhope to teach my grandchildren. It I means the halting and betrayal of new I world liberalism, the triumph of ryn-- ryn-- ical old world diplomacy, the humiliation humilia-tion and end of American Idealism i Tin? issue is Americanism and I am an American." |