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Show KNOX PLAN. NOT tS HARDING'S Iff BE 0. S. CHOICE Sullivan Savs President-elect Wiil Not Attempt Coercion oi Senate 51 MAJORITY SWINGING TO IRRECCNCILABLES ; Puzzling Question is: What T'Hpj Will League Think of lim Scheme? i i; M ltlv SI l i n VS i WASUINOTO. D. C., Jan. 8. If inybody assumes that Harding out of; Ja m n" ft iff tbcpuT ... 1., . ' '. shi- ;. ,,, :,,).. ' at Tu ' J.,., r-i i ' 1 n lefil H,,' f 1 116 w bm i ...;, .- ,.i ' e mm Ht-tiis lio ntitiK n il Lin-mi iii;it It us htit ..; it is merely a J'Bt-t of principles, - lo -I'd', and lte ' intends lo rvst, I. eeorin i :: ' her ; i . 1 a dhw ithMi .i eeU ftflei dar I I, lie 'f the iv.:, -. .t vr-r ; md. , .it N9 Harding has made no greater dlsclo- 'sjt'o of detail: than he has made of I j his plan for the league ol nations- I "P ' resume thl- m.o I. v .11 i$mm a commission ' t ego:;;.:. .h the eading nations of Europe. i OXSIDER OTIll R I OR I S. i 1 'i hal Is all ' Harding I 9 mil lifjjri VjBF Hurdlng :i nd io some antagonistic to ... i 1' " ' ln , 'itai w. i: , n no! make or can not put 'd' Bvthroupli an pli;i wM.it .'in-' ' -a 'foreign relations .except "bj s,nd with pm t :.. . ons i j 1 1 . n uomla 'nUUfc j to cc: -In: ... il ,., san1 Hurdlng is much inure likelj to con- ronl d It. th serin;, is .C:ii- go and !i-i. rasl F idoo: !li;il rm t h ni;: x .lit um 01 llis OWll a Mhj 3 'Jidj Let us then sec what ; new set E Is llkel to do. Tee new senate I -? Bfoverhlmlngl3 Republican. What ic- unul; t ... i xJnjtJ , i nudiai ! fr publican r.mjoi . 1 prevailing 12! '" 1 . in i". 'r.wl ' ' '"! - 11 ncS CAUCUS TO BEHK1 O. I :uteB The Hepubllcun majority in t w ., aloDtR Senate in :'ll probabill ) whi n tl e tin it IB comes vll li.'lil .i . ncas on t h it. snl- ' caucus's are tr-.. '.' I lutr held by j I troup mi 1 I,., i v ' i ihmi L I 1.1.. Iv i , Ij, . i . .in 1 1 .1 n ' I- ub JT I susp.t but ' in Bl it in ninn-Hstrongly ninn-Hstrongly than as a suspicion that the flOifl T terinc tbe leagu nationc w JB ir-Milt of jv 1: . n informal :. , . ji o: ., LTi'.iJl. II I ). .,' S :i.,'..i Kri.i J Za! Mi. ,il,.. r.t ( v.il d admitting he Ml lms- . rj In the first rim e. most Of the new K'-:.iil''.. i, . .i , ,. ii r ' rJr s:i t (..-.I- I..-. I ; n" J ' .. . . 'i . 1 l.a i" 1 1 .. i i in i t.. I'.. r jJJ; " it' i ':n .ii' . Ih3 V U'' "' " ,J ' '' 1 ' ' II league and practically .i" m M.f tn say I they will be t-ui. I. n l.y Ui. at(ltud -. I the Republican majority or by the Re-, Re-, i - : . 1 1 -. v i . I,.. . M i mum: n m .i s ib. si '"' ' ' ' ' "' ' 1 .... i i. Tw ; u'" ' m ..inter w.-:e for the in. it i 1 1 --......:.-. i , . i ., . a in mo ed closer to the Irreconcilable pos- the W ition. Conspicuous amoni tu Ii Mi siff ' Cumber ol North Dakota Last-winter H I ho ';is? the lone Republican mu w ;ml t:iin;, :o vote for th league without an. resenatlons. Lat week Senator ES, M' 'uiiii. r , .ill. u ly-i Harding and no-' .f. I t.ti.,1 niir i i . bad abandoned his oM p .. siiiur 'i.j had moved over to-j ward the irreconcilable trroup. Kur-thermore Kur-thermore several Democratic senators. - ' Id S! lei'-:- )',:... I... .- 1 -'-r tov.-fird the Irrecon .1. position, r All In all the new senate is much' I more likely to be dominated by the nil-reconcilable than by those who art?1 M friends of the league In any decree. I Since Senator Knox Is one of the', three acknowledged leaders of the irre- J WP concllable i,cn;itirs. let u v.,ii,,r,. n.e IR plan which he formally laid before IR Harding Inst week. Senator Knox's plan leaves the league whollv out ofi R: conslderiitlon His program Is . n I lows: I'irst immediately after March I PR Senator Knox will introduce' bt;t rev... I lutlon for a separate peace with Qer- --' i-esolul .i ii undone "Trj ' 1 Altf WOl luD END IK. The passing of tlie Knox resolution v.ni end ib.y state of war with Ger- ,91 many and elean up everything con-'. I nected with that, it win prepare the H ground for th.. next step. The nexl toV is t'?aJly Senator Knox's equlva- lr,it for our entranc,. into the leagu.-! leagu.-! of nations. Ho proposed either as ul I part of the resolution already Ue-1 W scribed or as a new resolution to lu-l m troduce the following: Lv-r- li is tl,p J;-'lar-d Policy of the' HLnlted States in order to meet fully and fairly our obligations lu ourselves and to the world that the freedom and . '""' of Europe being ugaln threat-' K ened by any power or romblnation of powers. The raited Slates vlll regard I audi u situation witii grave concern' I as a menace to its own pea- .. fin. :,. loom, v.ii) Consult U Itli Oilier poWei i affected with a view to de-. ising nici n (tontlnued on lac Knox Plaas, Not Harding's May Be U. S. Choice (( ontlnncd from Page tae.) 1'.... h n. ..-1 .m 1 . ..... .riii.jx.ki i i auLii iii.'udi'c- ;iiki with itx- Deoeaalty .'.rlslnp In tho luturo will co-oporalo with tho frlenda of clv-lllaatlpn clv-lllaatlpn for its dafense:" That is Sen-atOr Sen-atOr Knox'a suhstltuto for our entering enter-ing the league of nations. Ml RE DE4 LARA1 IOX. This. Knox plan, is not of course a league. It Is not a treaty or anything else of tin- kind. It la a mere public) official declaration of policy. Senator! Knox lilms' lf admits this. In urguingr' for It, he ways "avowed by public official of-ficial declaration, 11 might prove' worthy. 1 believe, to eerve with the BdoUroe Doctrine as a fundamental1 il... Irin.. rxt A m.ivli r. .1 1 ..I ....... I-1 entangle u In no way." At thin point arlM-a an Intereattog 'ii."tlon. Dpea thb; proposal of Sum-1 tor Knox, to which I uni satisfied the Republican senate will atiompt to restrict re-strict Senator Harding's plan does it fulfill the repeated promise made, in Senator HaQdlnga campaign apeeoheaj that he would tako steps to bring' ubout boout "An Anaoclatlon of Na-I tt-ns in the interests 01 permanent peace ? If Senator Harding assents to this J proposal from the senate, and does not !go uny further than his proposal doen. lean h- tlun b.- regarded ;us having lived up to his campaign pledge'' This point evidently worried Senator Knox a llttJe, for. in the course of his argument ar-gument in favor of his proposal He iuld: KNOX GIVES VIEWS. "The declaration of a policy such as Indicated, followed by a similar dcr-laration dcr-laration by other natlous. would constitute con-stitute an association of nations bound together by a common purpose that, las I have Bald on another occaelon, neither parchment, sealing wax. signatures signa-tures nor blue ribbons could make more otillpratory or effective." That constitutes all that Is now af-flrmatlve af-flrmatlve and formal In the senate proposal with regard to our foreign relations- But, certain other things are contemplated separately. What these other things nro. on ho discovered discov-ered from another paragraph In tin-argument tin-argument which Senator Knox made to Senator Harding. It reads: "Such a declaration of policy would not In lorfer with th codification of Inter-' national law The creation of a court I to decide international differences of a Justlflablo character, tho appoint-! ment of commissions to Investigate! political ti'jcstlons that threaten war I for tho purpose of enllgMonlr.g tHc jiiii upon trie i merits of the .juo-flon Involved, or any 'other measures, including disarmament, disarma-ment, that might be agroed upon by tho nations to lessen tho probability of war." DISARM Mi l kGREI MIA i I It is apparent, then-fore, that the senate proposes that there shall Bo forward, subsequent to the passage of tne Knox resolution and separate from It and from each other, certain negotiations nego-tiations leudlnp to these things which Senutor Knox says h's resolution does not lntorfore with: namfly, ftn agreement agree-ment for disarmament, an agreement to codify International law. an agreement agree-ment creating an International court ::iid an agreement for commissions to Investigate questions threatening war Tneis 1. itter things, apparently it ii intended to take up slowly and'gradu-ally and'gradu-ally over a series of years THI i: i s :,(N At this point arises the question-What question-What will the league do about WUI the league insist on going on and functioning even with us out''" AKye,n,if '"Haralng plan" should depart from tho Knox pUn. and Ir Harding should make an issue with Knox and hit senatorial follower Harding will lo. an. Kno, will Vh?' Knox will win because of an astute ui of atraUgy that giv-s him a math matlcal advantage. Knox has pt bia plan In thc shape of a resolution. I think ho must have done so consciously conscious-ly having this titrategy in mind. A resolution can be paused by a majority of tho senate. Harding s plan If it goea f irther thon Knox's and Involves agreement with forolgn nations, can only be passed by two-thlrda of the senate This Is how the league situation now stands (Copyright. LA 31, bv tho New York Evening Post ) |