LEAGUE OF NATIONS
„NO PA'n/Y DARE OPPOSE IT. WILSON AND TAFT JUSTIFY THE LEAGUE. Received March 7, 5.5 p.m. New York, March 5. President Wilson, in a speech at New York, said that the presence of Mr. Taft shows the League is not a partisan issue, and no party dare oppose it. "We are trustees of the assets of the countries we have liberated, and must not shirk our responsibilities. Vision is necessary for reforms, which will not come from statesmen, but from the people. lam amazed at the comprehensive ignorance of the opponents of the scheme. No nation, least of all America, has the right to set up selfish interests against the interests of mankind. Many new-born nations will fall into black despair if America fails them. The critics of the scheme are impelled by the doctrine of careful selfishness. When the treaty of peace is concluded, the League covenant will be so intertwined with the treaty that it will be inseparable. The League is a combination of all nations against wrongdoers." Mr. Taft, in the course of his speech, insisted that the League of Nations was an essential preliminary to the final declaration of peace, because new States, with conflicting interests, required the League as establishing authority. The League was also nece-sary to prevent Bolshevism. America's doctrine was not so much against alliances as against having favorites among the nations. If America failed to participate in the reconstruction of Europe she would be a slacker among the nations.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
JOFFRE'S VIEWS, New York, March 4. The Paris correspondent of the New York World interviewed General Joffre, who said that all nations expected security and stability from the coming peace and the League of Nations. Without *he United States as an essential factor the League could not have a result worth while. If the United States was in accord with the League principles the world's progress would be such that war would become difficult and rare, if not impossible.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1919, Page 5
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