AMERICA AND WORLD COURT
MR WILSON ENTERING THE FIGHT s (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian & N.2. Cable Association). WASHINGTON, April 18. The United Press correspondent states that Mr Wilson has assumed active direction of Democratic strategy in the fight against President Harding's world court proposal. A correspondent declares that the ex-President, after conferences with various Senators, mapped out a programme which may put President Harding in a predicament similar to that which Mr Wilson faced in th.e Senate during the League of Nations discussion. Mr Wilson"s plan is to force President Harding to choose between unconditional American adhesion to a world court and defeat of his entire plan for conditional participation. Mr Wilson believes he can thus force a clear cut issue of American membership of the League of "Nations before the elections. A courious angle of the case is that Mr Wilson contemplates cooperation of Republican irreconciliables who were his own bitterest opponents during his term of office. According to Mr Wilsons' play the Democrats will endeavour to defeat Mr Hughes's reservations regarding the world court proposal when it is introduced in Congress, forcing President Harding to decide whether he will accept a vote for an unconditional court or abandon his own plan.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 April 1923, Page 5
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203AMERICA AND WORLD COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 April 1923, Page 5
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