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Show PLACE HOPE IN NATION LEAGUE Arms Treaties Could Have Been Done Two Years Ago, Says Marburg . NEW FORK, May 4 -Theodore Marburg, former minister to Belgium, asked the annual meeting of the Wbodrow Wilson Democracy Wednesday Wednes-day If all that was done at ihe Wash-inion Wash-inion conference could not have been accomplished, also under American Amer-ican leadership; two years earlier, if the United States had entered the I'-.iriic of nations The senate's rejection of the league Covenant he called "the most tragic 1'lunder our country has ever made." MAI BE FORGOTTEN. M the treaties that cume pUt of Ws hlngton had been made within t: league. -Mr. Marburg said, there would be "some continuing central body charged with the duty and clothed with the power to punish violation vio-lation of law." und this, he believed, was lacking in the arms conference agreements. "Fnless the substance of the treaty relating to the employment of submarines sub-marines and poisonous gases in war! Is taken up and adopted by the 1 league, we are likely to find the treaty little more than a pious wish ' We arc Boon forgotten und certain toj i- Ignored should another war come as It will come unless we help organize or-ganize to prevent It." he said AGREE IN PRINCIPLE. It is more and more evident that iv.i(uv 01 nations not some league Of nations is the hope of the world." he remarked, asking If there I were not Innumerable ways to co-operate with the league without Joining ;it. In this connection. Mr. Marburg I said. President Harding had more I than once pronounced publicly in fa-Ivor fa-Ivor of an association of nations to discourage dis-courage war. and that Secretaries Hughes and Hoover were "firm believers believ-ers In the principle." Where, then is the difficulty.' he I inquired. " . granted the administration think they have a t mandate to keep out of the league, surely they do not go so far as to Interpret In-terpret the presidential vto to kill the league." OO The prize find of archaeologists Is the huge obelisk huvlng the code of Haromuraple kink- of Babylonia who reigned in 10S1 B. c. |