AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] U.S.A. FOREIGN POLICY. WASHINGTON, A ray IS. To the official disfavour which greeted .“senator Lodge’s alternative to the world Court proposal, there has now been added a significant civic protest from -50 organisations, urging American participation in the World Court. They have forwarded a statement to Congress expressing strong disapproval of the Lodge Blau, and recommending the United States to adhere to the Hughes-Harding plan. The statement declares the latter plan has President Coolidge’s support. and Cities, ('bundles. Mercantile, and Civic Associations’ approval thereof. It requests the Senate to take affirmative action, and concludes with the remark: ‘ •The allegation that the Court may become a tool of the 1-oague of Nations has been completely refuted.” Meantime, a group of eminent publicists including the ex-Ambassador to Britain, Afr Davies, have sent a letter to Senator Lodge, requesting him to withdraw his plan, and declaring that forty-seven nations are already members in tin established Court. Therefore. the adoption of the Lodge plan would mean confusion and delay, and would defeat the American chances of joining any court. This would infuriate the American jeople, ami disrupt the Republican Party.

p.S. A. AA! HASSADOI! RESIGNS. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, -May 10 Air Woods, Ambassador to Japan, has resigned and intends to return to the United States as soon as the Government can conveniently release him. His resignation was tendered on May .sth owing to the health ol his mother-in-law who has sullered severely as the result of the recent earthquake. No official announcement lias been made bemuse of the delicacy of the immigration situation, hut White House officials, in confirming the reports of the resignation, emphatically declare the circumstance has no political significance, they adding that Woods will probably be requested to delay his departure from Tokio in order to prevent the possibility of false inferences regarding the immigration question.