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Show iLOWDEN FAVORS THE HAGUE PLAN Creation of International Court Better Than Battlefield Candidate Declares ! CHICAGO, April 10. Immediate re-sumptlton re-sumptlton of the work of The Hague international conference to provide the necessary judicial machinery for the IBOttlcment of international disputes in icrdcr to prevent future wars, was ad-jvocated ad-jvocated tonight In an address by Gov. F. 0. Lowden of Illinois, candidate for tho Republican presidential nomination. nomina-tion. "When the war was. over, the' whole uorld was in a slate of suspense us to v;hat might happen afterward," the governor said. "Instead of adopting the Idea of Judicial determination of differences, a political alliance among the natitons was created. When that alliance was created and given the name of the league of natitons it was seen by our people that Instead of preventing future wars It was itself likely to prove the breeder of more conflicts. "I have .always felt that we overlooked over-looked the opportunity of a lifetime in that we did not tnkc up the great work of Tho Hague conference where it was left off and go on to the crqatiton of international courts so that we might arbitrate our international deferences rather than fight them out on bloody battlefields." |