INTERNATIONAL COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 644, 1 March 1923, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL COURT.

PROPOSAL IN UNITED STATES. SENATE TO VOTE ON QUESTION. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. The Now York Times’s Washington correspondent says it is expected that the Senate to-morrow will bo obliged to vote on the question of taking up President Harding’s World Court proposal, since Senator , King will more a motion that his resolution on tho matter bo called for consideration. Senator Lodge,s on the other hand, has asked that Senator King s resolution bo referred to the Senate n oreign Affairs Committee. Senate sentiment will, therefore, be tested in deciding between Senators Lodge and King. It w considered likely that Senator Lodge s attitude will bo approved, although the latter seems to be placed in the position of going contrary to tho wishes of President Harding, who has asked the Senate to give its sanction to the proposal before adjournment. The spokesmen for President Harding pointed out that the criticism of the President for not presenting the proposal earner was unjust, since ho could not ask the Senate to accept tho Court with reservations until the nations signatory to the League Covenant approved of those reservations, Enquiries determined that tins would consume more than a year, the spokesmen further indicated that President Harding would not be disappointed if the present session did not adopt the proposal m view of tho fact that the Court was now opeating and approval will be timely even if it occurs late in the year.—A. and N.Z. cable.

QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. The Foreign Relations Committee has adopted Senator Borah’s resolution requesting President Harding .to ’declare, whether ho favours an agreement making it obligatory that, at his proposed Worlds Court, members should submit all questions whim diplomacy cannot settle and whether he deems it advisable first to ascertain the willingness, of other Powers thus to bind themselves. Senator Borah pointed out that if such an obligation existed to-day the Ruhr invasion would have been, considered by this tribunal—A and N.Z. cable. AMERICAN RESPONSIBILITY. ACKNOWLEDGMENT URGED. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. The Federal Council of Churches, representing practically every denomination in America, has called on the Government to take the initiative in calling an international conference to consider the economic and political situation in Europe, mcludmg reparations, debts and armaments in the hope of prevailing on Europe to sign a treaty similar to those negotiated at the Washington Armament Conference. Ihe Council urged tho Government to renounce the policy of American aloofness m international affairs and to assume its full share of responsibility— A and N.Z. cable.