"LEAGUE DISEASED."

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160811, 19 November 1920, Page 2

"LEAGUE DISEASED."

CROWD BEARS" CORPSE IN EFFIGY.

REPUBLICANS JUBILANT,

YANCOUTEfR, November 7.

A message from Washington states that the friends of Mr Harding declared to-day that the group of treaties negotiated by President Wilson in Paris will not see daylight again. They base, this prophecy on the known, personal views of Mr Harding, and his first postelection speech last night, when the neighbours of the new President at Marion, Ohio, paraded the streets carrying a stretcher bearing the effigy of a corpse, labelled “League of Nations." Mr Harding said: “You don’t want ihe surrender of the United States. You wanted America to be free and not mortgaged, that’s why you did' not care for'the League, which is now deceased).” '

Mr Harding proceeded to state that he would take an active part in restoring normal international conditions, and the new administration would sea that the nation played a. part in the new International Association for peace and justice. , Mr Harding declared that he had fought the election without apology oi regret, and would rather not have tha Presidency than win by speaking ill or uttering lies. A message from Washington states that, making his first public appearance after more than a. year. President son, occupying a Wheel-chair, to-day received a gathering of League of Nations adherents in his honour on tha lawn of the White House.