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...Senator William E. Borah as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations came a protest last week from 110 Protestant Episcopal Bishops of the U.S. against the U.S. ratification of the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. The bishops, headed by Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan, would have no relations whatsoever with "an avowedly unrepentant and anti-Christian government which destroyed a million inoffensive Christian men, women and children," and still holds "in Turkish harems thousands of Christian women and children." Certain routine Turkish atrocities were detailed...
Promptly, suavely Senator Borah answered, telling the bishops in effect to mind their business:. "They [U. S. business, educational and religious interests in Turkey] combine in asking that the treaty be ratified. They feel it necessary for their protection. . . . The leading powers have all concluded, treaties with Turkey. ... To refuse friendly relations with all peoples who reject Christianity is not only unthinkable as a practical course for the Government to pursue, but I had always supposed that the great object of Christianity in international affairs was to establish friendly relations, not only with other Christian nations, but with the anti...
...Senator Borah, another irreconcilable, spoke more temperately, but none the less clearly showing his attitude...
...Mark A. Hanna (Republican Senator from Ohio) and widow of Medill McCormick (Republican Senator from Illinois), announced that she would support Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois, who is seeking re-election in his state. Senator McCormick was a confirmed isolationist. Senator McKinley voted for the World Court. Senator Borah and other isolationists recently made speeches in Chicago against the World Court. Evidently Mrs. McCormick did not approve this attack on Mr. McKinley in his home territory...
...Borah's Reply. Late despatches from Innsbruck declared that the waiting Tyrolians had not yet received a direct reply but that parts of a statement made by the Senator to U. S. pressmen had "evoked enthusiasm" when cabled to Austria. He said...