Vigorous Objections

The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, having been silent for a space, accepted an invitation to "discuss the question of peace, especially as it relates to the World Court" before a gathering of Unitarians at Boston (see RELIGION).

He began slowly. His speech quickened. In a few moments, gesticulating fiercely, pounding home his sharp periods, Senator William E. Borah was in the midst of an emphatic denunciation of the World Court and especially of U. S. adherence to the World Court. His points:

1) That the League created the Court is nothing.

2) That the League can call on the Court for political opinions is not nothing. It makes the Court just the legal advisor of the League.

3) That the League has power, and may alter the Court to something far other than an independent judicial body.

4) That "reservations" by the U. S. in adhering to the Court would be futile --the Court itself could decide what they meant.

5) That the only proper time for the U. S. to join the Court is when the statute of the Court has been made over --when the Court is entirely separated from the League.