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As all statesmen know, the League of Nations covenant already embodies the munitions embargo idea. So-called "irrec-oncilables," who kept the U. S. out of the League, last week stirred uneasily when they read the Capper resolution. Why, they asked, should a great U. S. industry be stifled just...
Naturally, when President Wilson went to the Versailles Conference he took the Secretary of State. Mr. Lansing opposed linking the League Covenant with the Peace Treaty, was antagonistic to the Treaty itself. He had many erudite theories. But President Wilson had long felt the onrush of foes, foreign & domestic. His...
"The Covenant of The League of Nations," Professor Wynne Harvard 3.
Thus a Republican Secretary of State explodes the chief objection of the Republican Party to U. S. entrance into the League of Nations-namely that, if the U. S. entered, the League might, under famed Article Ten of the Covenant, compel U. S. males to fight punitive actions abroad.
"This government has definitely refused ... to assume any obligations under the covenant of the League.