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Show VANOERLIP SEES 1 DANGER. AHEAD Wants An Elected Council to Supervise Secretary of State NRW YORK. Jan 22. An elected I COUndl, a sort of super-senate, wltl 'supervision over tb- department 'f 'stute and the Country's dealings Willi ' the world wa.s suggested today by Frank A. Vanderllp, as basis Tor on- i stltutlonal readjustment if the United SI it- machinciT for foreign relations. rela-tions. j This organization would make im-i possible such a situation as. "fraught j with danger" now existing between America and Japan, he said. Speaking al i tn etlng ol the I i agn of Political Education, Mr. Vanderllp launched his scheme "just for discussion." discus-sion." a change In the constitution WOUld provide the Suggested new um Of the government, of about thirty j members chosen at large. 9 BODY OF IIIIJtTY. "tt'e would have this body of thirty 'elected with terms of ten years, three 'members retiring every year." he said, and I WOUld have llieni sit COntlnU- ousli iii Washington, but never but half of them. I would provide that .one-half must always bS abroad. I think thai would eventually build an Intelligent body to deal with for-' elgn affairs. I "I would take from the senate Us treaty making powers Broadly speaking speak-ing It would be Idle to think tHut you could rret the si nate to agree to abrogating abro-gating any of its power, but it there were thirty men In the senate who' might go into a super-senate, and if tUcro were ninety-six men who thought they might, they might look with some degree of complacency on this now bodv. l FRAUGHT WITH D ING Kit "I wouldn't change anything In re-. pud to the presidents relations i i foreign affairs he must Initiate ' treaties, ho may still appoint the sc. -; rotary of state: he must appoint am-I am-I hassadors and ministers. Their con-; ; Urination shoidil He in the bunds of ithe council on foreign relations. I "I know little of the Japunese situ-allon. situ-allon. but enough to know It is fraught ; with danger nl u .i necessarily fraught' ; with danger. There isn't any thought that there should be a clash between these two gr.-..r peoples. If it comes, j It will arlSe from prejudices. from; misunderstanding, from luck of vision, from unfair. dAfrlendl) discourteous; I acts." |