Show national affairs by FRANK P the situation in the orient clouded md and uncertain as it Is has done quite a little ittle to clarify the atmosphere in amer ca from the nationalist standpoint the ot of the league of 0 nations or ny ot of the many so called peace agree ments bents to stop the invasion ot of china by he japanese in spite ot of the urgent calls t the chinese for help and arbitration ms done a great deal in the united states to discredit international agreements and super governing bodies as war and has caused a ng ot of sentiment inside congress and sut out against getting the united states nto into any foreign entanglements entangle ments or inducting uncle sam to depend too much on promise and not enough on his armament there Is no militarism in the united states in fact peace sentiment ment Is well nigh universal from the atlantic to the pacific but the tha people are more and more becoming convinced that the cannot depend so BO much on the league ot nations and its court the kellogg briand and other peace pacts or as it can on defensive armament and a disposition to mind its own business and let the other nations ot of the world so far ar as possible settle their om own n problems without foreign interference As a result there never was less sentiment tor for getting uncle sam into the league of nations than at pie sent all ot of the predictions made by the senators a decade ago seemed to have turned out to be true while t the he claims aims ot of the pro leaguers have b been ref refuted buted by world events even form former league leaders like governor franklin D roosevelt and newton D baker have so tar far deviated irom from their earlier paths so BO far as the league Is concerned that toi joseph who was secretary co president wilson has seen fit publicly to i chide them lor for their change of faith or perhaps lack ot of faith all AH ot of this it is expected will furnish ammunition for the anti league court senators ena tors when the question of getting I 1 stead of 0 having nai ing to turn all profits over to 1 the government there seems to be in Con congress grebs now quite a general realization I 1 i of tile the injustice or of limiting the railroads to a low profit 11 in I 1 good times and then giving them no help in bad times uncle sam into t the he court through the tha root protocol come up in th the e senate the anti court senators are much encouraged coura cou raged ged by recent international developments which they claim have substantiated their views that uncle sam should stay out ot of the league and the league court and devote his time to building up his own nation in tact fact th they ey believe that it if the world court resolution were to come to a vote now they could defeat it along with the root modification one anti internationalist senator told the writer W alter recently that ile he would like to get the world court resolution voted out now because he felt assured that the result would be overwhelming deleat defeat lor for the resolution just when it will be reported out cannot be stated but it s evident that the pro league court court senators are just as much depressed at present at their opponents are el elated hasi the sino japanese situation also has confounded the pacifists paci fists as well as the internationalists in view of the late japanese action sentiment tor for strengthening our national defense instead ot of i weakening it has grown rapidly the threat to cut the army tor for economys sake may not materialize in congress and it la is now much more likely that the vinson ten year naval program to give us a navy up to treaty strength w will III tie be passed ty by congress |