LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 18255, 20 April 1923, Page 6

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

WOODROW WILSON SUSY. TAOTICS TO CORNER PRESIDENT. Prcrs Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Washington, April is. The United Press Association correspondent states that cx-President Wilson has assumed active direction of the Democratic strategy in the fight against President Harding’s World Court proposal. ■ The correspondent declares that the cx-Prcsi-dent, after conferences with various senators, mapped out a programme which may put Mr Harding in a. predicament similar to that with which Mr Wilson was faced in the United Slates Senate during the League of Nations battle. Mr Wilson’s plan is to force Mr Harding to choose between unconditional American adhesion to the World Court and the defeat of his entire plan for America’s conditional participation. Mr Wilson believes that lie can thus force a clear-cut issue of American membership of the League of Nations before the electors. A curious angle of the case is that Mr Wilson contemplates the eo-operation of the Republican irreconcilables who were his own bitterest opponents during his term of office. According to Mr Wilson’s plan, the Democrats will endeavor to defeat 51 r Hughes’s reservations in regard to the World Court proposal when it is introduced in Congress, forcing 51 r Harding to docidq whether ho will accept a vote for an unconditional court or abandon his own plan.—A. and N.Z. Cable.