AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

134 WILLIAM E. BORAH
When the treaty was written it
had incorporated
in it the so-called League of Nations.
I believe it correct to say the treaty proper was
only accepted by Mr. Wilson because the
league was attached. fTjiave neve r believed,
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duced to accept this treaty, so at variance with
every principle he had advocated and al l things
tor whicn he nacTsfbod", had he not believed die
leagu e intime would ameliorate its terms and
Humanize its conditions. In that, of course* I
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think he was greatly m error .
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In my opinion the league, haa it
been effective
at all, wouWJiave^been but the instrument
tojnore f.ffe.ctiia.}]y TOffltfi tfre sinister mandates
of the predominant instrument. Under
the treaty the league wouTcT* nave quickly
grown into an autocracy, an autocracy based
upon force, the organized military force of the
great powers of the world. But now, so far as
we are concerned, the league has been stricken
from the document. The sole badge of respectability,
the sole hope of amelioration, so
far as American advocates were concerned,
now vanish. With the league stricken out,
who is there left in America, reared under the
principles of a free government, to defend the
terms and conditions of this treaty? There it