AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE.
A SENATOR’S WARNING. ; Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. ('able Association. NEW YORK, March 8. Senator Johnson, in a. speech, bitter:ly attacked President Harding’s pro--1 posal that the United States should .join the International Court, pointing out that the court offered little more than what the existing arbitratio i treaties offer. He said the so-called Court was part of the League of Nations. The entering of the Court was the first false step. It was entering the wedge of a first movement whien would ultimately lead to a full mem--1 Ixfrship of the League. *• 1 do not ' want Aifcericn to enter the League. : lie said.. and shall fight against it. | But if America is finally to he driven ’ in. let us go in with our head up and j our flag flying. Do not permit our i proud nation to-day to tamely enter. | and thus become a member of that j which bus been so emphatically repudi--1 ated.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16987, 10 March 1923, Page 12
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