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Yesterday's treaty has further, the proviso that similar treaties must be concluded during the year with Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and lesser powers. For the United States is trying to superimpose on the League and Locarno covenants which it has found unacceptable, its own plan for universal peace. In this connection Senator Borah has written, "It is safe to prophesy that the United States will never become identified or cooperate with a system for peace based upon, 'pledges to wage war'." Unwilling, in other words, to assist in the forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect...
Next day the new Security Commission adjourned until February, after mapping an agenda for itself which contemplates a study of how Security may be achieved by a network of "regional pacts," such as the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925). The Disarmament Commission also adjourned, but not until the British Delegate, Lord Cushendun, had made a significant pronouncement. He, a sturdy Ulster patriot, declared: "The empire has reduced our army and navy, voluntarily, to the lowest possible level consistent with safety. ... We have stripped off our clothes and have nothing else to take...
...what about these conferences at Geneva and Locarno and Washington? What have they accomplished? Virtually (in the opinion of Author Kenworthy) nothing...
...picture postcard of his hotel, marked his window with a "X," mailed the card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal pier "and that stadium where the Dempsey-Tunney fight was held." He said: "Greatest American? Lindbergh, undoubtedly. Next President ? Oh, probably Charley Hughes. Locarno pact? What's that?" Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane took occasion to flay Mr. Gray: "He never reads the foreign news, just goes along through life very much like any chicken in his chicken yard, if he has a chicken yard. Fortunately for the nation it is not made up exclusively...
...admitted, however, that he had suggested at the time the Locarno compacts were signed (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925, et seq.) that the inscription be modified, suggesting "DESTROYED BY WAR; RESTORED BY AMERICAN LOVE." His reasons for this suggestion were that the inscription should emphasize "not past differences between these peoples but their present agreements...