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...that the judges are elected as provided in its own statute, not by the League, but by the representatives of the nations to the League acting as an elective body for this purpose." 3) Those who condemn the Court because it does not go far enough. These include Senator Borah, who wants a world court " with teeth in it," and those who believe we should join the League as well as the Court. Those who make this objection, according to Mr. Hoover, " are the ones who would have complained on the Wednesday night of Genesis, and would have gone...
...largely, it is assumed, in fear of the consequences in the elections of 1924. Senator Hiram Johnson is expected to lead the isolationists in a fight "against the Court at any cost." Senator Capper of Kansas (a farm bloc leader) says that the farmers are "for" the Court. Senator Borah declares that the proposal is "ineffectual." Senator Pepper believes that it is time to "go beyond" the Court and accept the League with modifications." Senator Lodge, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, is lukewarm. As to the Democrats, it is expected that they may back the President's proposal...
...conjecture market is still as lively as ever. Why were these gratuitous prophecies made so early and so positively? There is at least one plausible answer. Perhaps their object is to put a damper on insurgents within the Republican ranks. These rebels, attracted by the vigor of a Borah or the vote-swinging power of a Johnson, have been spreading sly stories about the President's discouragement over his work. They have bored from within, intending to scuttle the ship quietly when the time was ripe. They have imagined that they could persuade him of his unfitness for office...
...clashing heralds the entrance of Henry Ford in the race; led by Ford and Bryan, the Democrats might make a truly remarkable crusade. With cratory and efficiency, good old-fashioned prejudice and plenty of capital, the halcyon days of party politics could be revived to suit even Senator Borah...
Protests against the readmission of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled Ambassador of Soviet Russia, who was deported in 1921, and his associate, Gregory Weinstein, reached the State Department. Copies of the protest, which emanated from women's patriotic societies, were sent to Senator Borah of Idaho, who favors political and diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia...