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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Since the treaty and the Covenant for the League of Nations has been repudiated by the Senate, it is returned to President Wilson, and, as he is chief mover of the document, it is inconceivable that he will not resubmit it to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in whose hands the fate of the treaty really lies in the course of the next few months. However, before Wilson resubmits the pact, it is only logical that he announce a policy of compromise liberal enough to assure the measure some chance of success. But once in the hands of the committee...
Comparatively few men and women would cast aside the whole work of the peace conference. There are a few radicals who are shrieking protests against the "entire wicked business," recalling to mind those opposers of the Constitution who declared that document a "covenant with death." But these may be discounted. The loudness of their talk can only be equalled by the fewness of their numbers. How could a group of self-respecting nations, having fought a war against the impossible conditions then existing in the world have the moral weakness to allow themselves to slip back into the same...
Last spring, honest opposition to the League of Nations as it then stood--which stand the CRIMSON shared--offered a possibility of some document being evolved of more lasting value. Opposition now can only prolong the chaotic condition of all European countries, and continue the industrial foment of our own country...
...Senator is exactly right; the publication of this document by the Senate will only sow dissension among the people. And all the disputes may be for naught for the paper may be of no official character whatsoever. If the executive does not desire to inform the legislature on the progress of the treaty, that is the President's business. Many of us believe that Mr. Wilson has not taken the Senate sufficiently into his confidence and have criticized him accordingly. But that does not excuse the Senate for taking illegitimate means to discredit the administration...
...document asserted to be an authentic draft of the peace terms was brought to the Senate by Mr. Borah, the same man who refused the President's invitation to an informal conference at the dinner table about the League of Nations, an occasion attended by all his colleagues. Doubtless by both of these discourteous actions he has gained political notoriety. But we feel certain that the bulk of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, respecting the dignity and unity of purpose of the nation, will repudiate his policy and will regret that the Senate has accepted from him a document of such...