Show a NATIONAL affairs AFFAIR WO 5 t WRITTEN FOR R THE PARK PAEK RECORD BY FRANK FRAME P i appears now that there are r tul still kers k e ahead for uncle sams adhere to the world court it will be re bred that the world court resola on 1 was passed under cloture only air after ler number ot of reservations had bad been at hed clied in the senate among these was IB ki known as number five providing at no advisory opinion could be given kir the world court on any matter in ilch the united states had or claimed an i interest without the consent or 0 the tolled states itself itsell friends ot of the court and league in 00 e united states declared that this reservation was perfectly innocuous abey icy maintained that it took the unan ioui consent of the league council chow to r submit ab in it any matter to the pet garld id court and that this reservation B merely giving uncle sam the right veto already possessed by the other powers aers but it developed during the recent sent discussion at geneva that there Is difference ot of opinion about this and that at it has never been settled whether a fuestion Ties llon can be submitted i to the world court only by the unanimous consent of the members or whether a majority will turn the trick 10 41 W because I 1 of ot this uncertainty the delegations ot of the nations assembled at geneva to discuss the american reservations concocted a reservation to our reservation atlOn this european reservation provides that the united states shall have the same rights in objecting to advisory opinions as the other nations have this means that 19 it Is finally settled that a unanimous vote of the league council Is required to ask for an advisory opinion that the united states will have a right to veto the submitting oi 01 any question in which we have an interest but it if it Is determined that only a majority vote of the council Is needed to submit a question to the world court then the united states can be taken lato into court against her consent it if there Is a majority against her 0 the internationalists and league ad in the united states are already beginning to declare that we ought to accept this that it t make any difference any anyhow how as we will be on an tiona equal I 1 tooting footing with all the other nations 0 aw but it does make a difference it if the united states were a european country with european interests able find and willing to align itself with one european faction or another then perhaps it make any difference but in world affairs in many questions in which chic h we have a vital interest there are only two view points the european and the american viewpoint some of the questions are the tariff immigration prohibition and the application of the monroe doctrine in determining these questions the interests of the other nations are indirect contradiction to the interests of the united states suppose tor for instance some nation asked for an opinion on a question affecting g immigration policy or national tariffs under senate reservation five the united states could by objecting prevent the court from rendering any such opinion but under the compromise offered us from geneva the majority of the nations could over overrule us and get the opinion anyhow now when we take into that the I 1 interests of all the other countries in regard to tariff and immigration are directly the opposite of ours it Is easy to g guess u ess what sort of an opinion would be handed banded down for international tion s I 1 diplomacy and international politics will sway the world court just as they have always swayed the league of q nations I 1 W it was to prevent any such contingency gency y that the senate adopted reservation ti on five and the senate will not recede from its position on oil this safeguard there are already so some tracings of the handwriting hand arlt writing rig 0 on the wall in this respect among the senators who have expressed themselves on the ithe subject are senator willis of ohio who voted for the world court resolution with the senate reservation in commenting on the turn in international affairs senator willis said there would not in my ju judgement jud ci gement be bellve five votes in the senate jn in fe favor vor of the modification ca alon suggested by the european diplo diplomats mats america has ande in nde her proposition perfectly clear if europe Is 13 willing to accede to that all well and goodo it not there la Is an end to that 40 dean inge predicts that great britain Is going to the dogs that her days of naval supremacy are over and that about every thing Is 13 wrong with her sounds like he la is the brookhart of great britain |