THE WORLD COURT
SENATE IN AGREEMENT WITH PRINCIPLE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, December 13. With intimations from Senator Lodge that he opposes the establishment of a World Court and desires a new tribunal constructed on the basis of The Hague Court observers freely predict that the late President Harding’s resolution proposing the adherence of the United States to the League of Nations’ Court will never receive the approval of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. Opposition centres upon the Court’s connection with the League of Nations. Republican members of the committee are convinced that the Court can never completely be divorced from its parent. It is stressed that American tradition always favoured the adjustification of international disputes and therefore the Senate doubtless approves of the Court in principle but the question is asked why the United States must go to the League of Nations which America has definitely rejected for an international court. The committee may even propose that the United States take the leadership in a discussion with the Powers for the purpose of making The Hague tribunal such a world court as desired.
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Southland Times, Issue 19123, 15 December 1923, Page 5
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186THE WORLD COURT Southland Times, Issue 19123, 15 December 1923, Page 5
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