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Show FsSflLIClf Says People Are in No Mood to Be Trifled With and Desire De-sire Clear Statement. JOHNSON-BORAH 'POLICY NARROW AND SELFISH i International Court of Justice Needed; Would Divide World Into Three Zones. CHICAGO, Jure 6 .--Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Now York today joined tho Republican presidential aspirants who have taken personal charge of their convention headquarters. headquar-ters. In his announcement he said "some progress" was being mado toward to-ward framing a platform "declaration of principles," adding that ho was glad to find that his v'ows as to tho importance of thai declaration wero shared by many delegates with whom ho had talked. "Tim people are in no mood to be trifled with," said Dr. Butler. "They want to kn.ow with precision Just what the Republican parly will undertake to do if it carries the election. Jolm-son-Borah Policies Narrow. Dr. Butler predicted that Americans Ameri-cans "generally" would "never accept that narrow and selfish international pollc3V which was lie said, embodied in the position of Senators Johnson and Borah, "as to isolation of the United States from tho work of the. world," nor any other "merely negative nega-tive policy." The fundamentals of an acceptable American International policy, he said, were to bring Into existence the international inter-national court of Justice, co-operate with other nations "in devising ways and means to establish and maintain international peace" and unite with them to punish violations of international interna-tional public law." Would Divide World Into Zones. Amplifying this outline given In his formal statement, Dr. Butler said ho favored division of the world Into three zones. .European, American and oriental, th peoples of each zone to be responsible for tho maintenance of order there in so far as questions involving in-volving their own primary interests were concernc1. He was nsked If that meant employment of troops out of the country, and said that It did, within with-in the 2ones. The real history of article 10 had never been publicly told, Dr. Butler said, it had been written, ho said, by "certain people," before the war, and sent to President Wilson, who, Dr. j Butler said, sent It to the senate for-i for-i eign relations committee- with a proposal pro-posal that It be substituted for thel Monroe doctrine. The committee, he added, rejected It "unanimously." ) I'rciCi-cncc Primaries a Fraud. i Dr. Butlor, declaring "tho presi- 1 der.tial preference primaries a fraud and a farce." charged that method3 adopted to secure success in them hao been a public scandal." He had pointed out his reasons for not entering enter-ing preference campaigns, he said, last January, in announcing his attitude and. the "possible vJls" he then Indicated Indi-cated had been developed to a "greater "great-er degree" than could have been anticipated. |