WORLD COURT ISSUE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 12

WORLD COURT ISSUE

RULED OUT IN AMERICA'

(Received 10th February, 2 p.m.)' WASHINGTON, 9th February. : Britain and some of the other European Governments have made final replies to the United States proposal to enter the "World Court with reservations. The replies amount substantially to rejection. The British answer follows generally the Geneva Confeferue 's counter-reservations to the Senate's reservations, which President Cooliflge and many Senators, believe unacceptable. The Senate reservations would give the Uuited States a veto power over any dispute presented to the Court in, which the "United States had or claimed to have an interest.' The counter-reservations would give the United States equal power with the Council members in relation, to the" Court, but whether the latter now Sa'va a veto power is at present disputed. As President Coolidge has announced that he will not reopen the subject if the Senate reservations to the World Court Protocol are not accepted without change, the United States apparently stands definitely outside the tribunal, since three foreign Governments have advised the State Department o£ their decision to ask for a modification of the reservations.

On receipt of the formal notifications qf_Britain and two other nations, it was learned on "Wednesday that the Senate is refusing, on the ground that it is unnecessary to take up a resolu* tion proposing that the Senate raciflcation of the Protocol be rescinded. •