AMERICAN POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 289, 31 August 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS

« REPUBLICAN NOMINEE'S VIEWS ON „ FOREIGN AFFAIRS "LEAGUE IMPOTENT TO PREVENT WARS"

By Telegraph-Prdss Association-Copyright

New York, August! 28. Speakitag at Marion, Ohio, Senator Harding said the League of Nations was utterly impotent! to prevent wars. It could not survive, because it was based upon power, not upon right. He opposed the League, which was an offensive-de-fensive alliance of the great Powers, and wa3 in favour of an association of free nations, animated by considerations of right and justice, instead of migMi and self-interest. In the Hague Tribunal, he said, there was the i'nriiewoH ol a really effective instrumentality for securing enduring peace and order. The Tribunal should be given extra power. He would combine the tribunal and the League, and excise all thai! was bad from both organisations. _If he wa3 elected, he would immediately call a conference of the most able men. from both parfe, to formulate a definite plan along the lines he had indicated. He would ask Congress, immediately after his election, vo pass a resolution deolaring peace between the United States and Germany; but he would not advocate negotiating a separate peace.— Atft.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

DEPARTURE FROM POLICY SPEECH. New York, August 28. The Washington correspondent of the "New York times" says ill is pointed .out that Senator Harding's speech at Marion, outlining his attitude on foreign affairs, marks a distinct departure from the policy outlined in the speech in which ho accepted nomination. Ho sa:d then that as soon as he was elected he would sfgn the Congressional peace resolution, which President Wilson had vetoed. He said to-day he would sign the resolution, but would not negotiate a separate peace with Germany. It 1b recalled that the resolution specifically provides- .that the President shall negotiate a separate peace With Germany.— Aus.-'N.Z. Cable Assn. COS'S CHARGES UPSET REPUBLICAN PLANS. (Reo. August 30, 8.35 p.m.) Washington, August 29. Reports reaching here indicate that tiio people are taking little interest in the Presidential campaign save in Ohio. The Republicans regret that Governor Cox has placed Senator'Harding on his defensive by the campaign fund charges. The Republicans had planned to mako an aggressivo attack upon President Wilson's policies, and to keep Governor Cos busv, defending the President. The Republicans claim that the country generally wants a change. Tho Democrats claim that the Republicans who favour the League of Nations aro turning to Governor Cos.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

/"Governor Cox charge? tho Republicans with raising a fifteen-million-dollar campaign fund with which to purchase the Presidency.]