WORLD COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 5

WORLD COURT.

THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE.

HARDING SEEKS THE GRAND PEACE. President Harding'a message to the Senate regarding the World's Court is receiving great attention in America, and some of the leaders of the Republican party are up in arms against him; but, seeing that the message was in accordance with the Republican party since Roosevelt's time, the concensus of public opinion is that it will find ita place on the Republican platform of 1924, declares Mr. D. F. Denham, an Australian student of politics, who was Premier of Queensland for a period up to 1915. Mr. Denham has been on an extended trip to Europe and America, and is a passenger to Sydney by the Niagara, which arrived at Auckland to* day.

Mr. Denhain considers that Mr. Harding will again be nominated for the Presidency, and many people entertain the opinion that Mr. Lodge is "up against" Mr. Harding, rather than against the World's Court. The principal contention of the Republicans is

that the World's Court is "a back-door passage" to the League of Nations. Mr. Harding was making a great tour of the States, and as late as May 30 last, speaking near Washington, be made the following pronouncement:— "The United States had proved there

could be less of armament, and now should strive for an assurance that there should be less of war. It is not enough to seek assurance for ourselves; I believe it is a God-given duty to give all our influence to establish, the ways of peace throughout the world. We cannot guarantee, but we can promote, the adjustment of disputes. We can aid in the establishment of the agencies of peace. We must do things which rational thinking leads us to believe will tend to make war less likely."