OUTLAWRY OF WAR

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 January 1925, Page 5

OUTLAWRY OF WAR

AMERICAN SENATOR’S SCHEME. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. Senator Borah announced that his first important action since becoming chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate will be the introduction shortly of a resolution asking President Coolidge to call_ an international conference to consider economic problems and further disarmament.

He considers this an essential preliminary for the outlawry of war. namely’, the substitution of law and judicial tribunals for politics and force in international law,‘and the creation of a tribunal divorced from all connections with international political institutions, such as the League of Nations, and an international declaration that war is a crime and therefore outlawed. Mr Borah frowns upon the Geneva protocol, declaring that the United States can never participate in its provisions. It is known that Mr Borah and Mr C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State) are not in complete agreement on several aspects of th© senator’s plan. Mr Borah desires to invite Germany and Russia to a conference, believing no settlement, especially economic, can be effective without them. Mr Hughes opposes this, and. moreover, along with 'President Coolidge, he doubts the advisability of an economic conference, believing an opportunity should be allowed to judge of the working of the Dawes plan. President Coolidge also feels that the United States has no place in a discussion on EuroDean economic problems, while Mr Borah insists that America’s interests in European economic questions are vital.

The President likewise deprecates American participation in an economic conference, fearing that war debts will inevitably become . involved and that discussions on theise matters will result in an entangling situation, especially since it is an already settled American policy that such debt's must be considered separately. It is believed Mr Borah will make a test of strength with the administration noon the conference discussion.