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Every college and university in the country was asked to vote on four proposals regarding the World Court. The first was the Harding-Coolidge-Hughes reservations. The second, the "Harmony Peace Plan" of thirty World Court leaders. The third, the "Borah Plan," and the fourth was absolute opposition to the Court in any form...
...things may be said of him. Sen- ator Pat Harrison, whip-tongued I keynoter and fire-eater from Mis- sissippi, has unleashed his vocal chords, calling "strikes" derisively against any Republican who may come to bat. Last week he gave his hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction to those of his political faith who dare oppose his Senatorial reform views, the poor old Republican Party is in for rough...
This statement was in answer to W. D. Lane's recent article on the military training systems in use today. This article was endorsed by Senators Borah, LaFollette, Shipshead, and Norris, and by many other prominent figures in American life...
...free to say that I should have far less hope for a significant product of the Court's functioning if we did not have also the League of Nations. For instance, the Court may give advisory opinions requested by the Council of the League of Nations. Senator Borah has been opposing this function, and apparently wants the United States to say that they must be abolished. Why? Because they don't work well? He does not say that. Indeed, I do not see how any informed student could say it. The fact that the United States Supreme Court does...
What would happen to our efforts if every country insisted on making a World Court follow the practice of its own Supreme Court? Senator Borah says that this advisory function reduces the Court to the position of a legal advisor to the Council and subjects it to political influence. I have searched the record of the four years' work and the eighteen cases already handled and I have not found the slightest foundation for such a statement. The Council has its own legal advisers. I myself have served in the legal section of its Secretariat, and I know something...