THE LEAGUE.
FEELING IN AMERICA. AN ELECTION ISSUE. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT NEW YORK, Aug. 11. 'ln a speech at Clarksburg, West Virginia, Mr J. W. Davis, in formally accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, boldly revived the League of Nations as a popular issue, declaring it was the logical outcome of the efforts to secure disarmament. He also pledged his immediate ahherence to the V 7 orld Court.
Mr Davis, referring to the League, said: “We cannot accept the dictum that we are not authorised by any expression of popular will and that the League of Nations is a closed incident. We deny the right of any man thus to shut the gates of the future against us and to write the fatal word ‘never’ across the face of our foreign policy. “I do not believe America’s entrance into the League can occur until the common judgment of our own people is ready for the step,” ‘added Mr Davis. “We awaited the ripening of this judgment before entering the war, and I am content to wait until it speaks for the agencies of peace. Until then it is the duty of the executive to co-operate officially in all legitimate endeavours, whether from the League or other sources, to promote disarmament. Equally must we maintain an adequate national defence until reason supplants force.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 August 1924, Page 5
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