AMERICA AND THE TREATY
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST
THE LEAGUE
SPEECH BY SENATOR REED
PRESIDENT WILSON UPHOLDS DOMINIONS' YOTE
(By Telegraph-Press AFSooiation-Copyrislit . (Hec. September 23, 7.50 p.m.) Washington, September 22. Senator Eeed in a (speech said: "President Wilson disregards important facts when he.sayfl that tho United States' one vote in the League of Nations is equivalent lo Britain's! fix votes. When tho United States is a party to any dispute it is unable- to vote in the Council, thus permitting Britain's votes to make a unanimous decision against the United Slates, or depriving the United. States of a. necessary unanimous decision. The League will create- a dangerous superstate greater than any constituent mom. ber." Senator Ke'ed quoted a letter he had received from Sir Robert Borden, signed by 11. G'lemenccau, President Wilson, and Mr. Lloyd George, assuring the Canadian Premier that representatives of tlic self-governing Dominions may be selected an members of the League Council. The Senator pointed out that a, minority in the League assembly might exclude from membership in the League any European coir 'ry not named in the Peace Protocol. le nations' thus excluded might organise a rival league, which would certainly result in a conflagration. He declared that there wero only 289,128,000 white peoplo, while , 811,425,000 dark-skinned people were represented in the League. Thus the majority in the League would always vote for race equality.—Aus.tN.Z. , Cable .Assn. ...
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 308, 24 September 1919, Page 7
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230AMERICA AND THE TREATY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 308, 24 September 1919, Page 7
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