U.S.A. FOREIGN POLICY.

Grey River Argus, 20 April 1923, Page 5

U.S.A. FOREIGN POLICY.

WILSON BUTTS IN. ATTEMPT TO FORCE HARDING’S HAND. (Receiovd April 19, 5.5 p.m.) I WASHINGTON, April .18. ' Tin* United Press correspondent ! states Mr Woodrow Wilson lias assum- ' ed active direction of tho Democratic! Party’s strategy in the fight against! President Harding’s world court propo-' The correspondent declares that the ox-President, after a conference with various Senators, mapped out a programme which may put. President Harding in a predicament similar to that which Mr Wilson faced in the Senate during the League of Nations battle. Mr Wilson’s plan is to force President Harding to choose between unconditional American adhesion to the World Court, and the defeat of his entire plan for conditional participation. Mr Wilson believes that he 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 co 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 endeavour to defeat Mr Hughes’s reservaitions to the World Court proposal when it is introduced in Congress, forcing President Harding to decide whether ho will accept a vote for an unconditional entry into the Court, or abandon his own plan.