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Show HARDING HEMiS 1 PEACE Two Senators and Educator Give Suggestions for Association As-sociation of Nations makimx, ( ihio, lH'c in Presidentelect President-elect Harding heard suggestions for his association of nation plan from widely divergent viewpoints today In conferences with Senator Harry S. J'ew, of Indiana, nator J A. Heed, of Missouri, and Hr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university. univer-sity. Each'lndlcated that he thought Mr. Harding was following along hopeful llneS) but each had hi Own idea of what iihuuld be made the basis and form of any international agreemeni io promote peace. VVOI LD R RAP W ' 1PONS. Senator New, Republican member of the foreign n l.iUuiis ojn rn ittee, was ' inclined to favor a disarmament agreement agree-ment if one could be made He Indicated In-dicated that he would not be advorstt I to taking such machinery of the Versailles Ver-sailles league as might b- found practicable, prac-ticable, but told Mr. Harding that in his opinion. a covenant mutually pledging the h ading nations to reduce armaments would be vastly superior to i any complicated International peace I structure. in MOt it VI r; LEAGUE, i As a Democrat who hrji made a bitter fight for flat rejection of the i " Versailles treaty. Senator Heed coun- I soiled the president-elect against ac- ; finance of league member ihlp on any basis, and recommended modification J of international law as the best hope of averting misunderstandings. To go , into the league in the face of people's peo-ple's Verdict at . the election, he di dared, would be a breach of faith and a costly blunder. He evidenced lit tie faith that wars could be abolished abol-ished but conceded a plan for more deliberate diplomatic parleys might prevent some of them. LOOKS ro ECONOMIC TIES. Economic considerations were advanced ad-vanced h i r. Busier as the determining deter-mining factor of the international situation. sit-uation. He prophesied that in the end trade and commercial tics would found more binding and more practically practi-cally useful than peace covenants, tn rehabilitating civilization and guaran-he guaran-he fixed ae ""on ;is possible and thai Gerinany's burden of war Indemnity fixed as soon as posslbh and i hilt markets be stabilized by establishing credits among consumers abroad Moth Senator Reed and fr. Butler indicated they considered the war referendum ref-erendum Proposal impractical and Senate. i New reserved judgment rc-: rc-: garding It. I Another caller today was Harry M.I Daugherty. H is understood tint both Mr Daugherty and Senator x. talked with Mr. Harding about i ibl-net ibl-net appointments. |