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Show I SEN. HITCHCOCK CLAIMS PEOPLE BEHIHDJMLSON Country Wants Peace and Fight For League o.f Nations Na-tions Must Be Won. LINCOLN. Neb., April 1C Speaking in connection with his candidacy for indorsement by Nebraska vpters at the IH April 20 primary as a Democratic pres- Identlal candidate, U. S. Senator G. M. H Hitchcock declared Jn an nddress here tonight that the fight for the league of H nations must be won, nnd predicted some way would be found whereb I America would enter the league. After asserting that It is -'unthink H ablo" that the United States "should I fail civilization in this great cmcrg- I ency'," the Nebraska senator declared the 'people of this country want peace I nnd arc "behind the president of the I United States In demanding the estab I liDhment of a league of nations," they I know, said he, that the president has I "tuught a good fight Tor a great ideal. I Thcv know that as he regains his , I health and strength the fight will be I renewed and they have hjch hopes that I the outcome will be a triumph of the I great Ideal for which he has fought 3 so hard and sacrificed so much." Frienlls of the peace treaty in the senate, said Senator Hitchcock, wore L. ,i willing to subscribe to "reasonable" BkJ reservations in order "to meet the ob- IK Jcctions of the suspicious, the fears ol RK the timid, and to silence the tongues of enemies." ' Such reservations, he asserted, j should make it clear "beyond perad- ijft- vt-nturo"'that the domestic affairs of the United States are never to be tak-L., tak-L., en under jurisdiction of the league; that the Monroe doctrine is to be u'n-' u'n-' ' affected; that if the United States is i engaged in a dispute with any nation r having self-governing colonies, domin- J ions or parts, each with a vote, all of 1 ' those votes and America's vote, are tc j be disqualified; that the poAvcrs of congress to declare war are unimpair- ' cd; that the league has no' control over the American army and navy, .fnd J " that the United States shall be the sole judge of whether it has performed its obligations in case It wants to with draw. |