Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second, President Lowell believes that the thing has another heart--that is, Article XVI. In his letter to Senator Walsh he says that he introduced into the program of the League to Enforce Peace the third provision relating to economic and military sanctions, the teeth of the League. When the Commission on the creation of a Covenant for a League called for the programs of the League of Nations organizations of the various nations the program of the League to Enforce Peace figured very strongly and its essential features were incorporated into the document, Article XVI being part...
President Lowell when questioned in regard to an article in a Boston paper concerning his letter to Senator Walsh issued the statement given below. The article in question stated that President Lowell had written to Senator Walsh declaring that Article 10 of the League of Nations Covenant should be stricken out bodily, but if that could not be done, the Lodge Reservations should be accepted. President Lowell replied as follows...
...have never thought or spoken of Article 10 as the "heart of the Treaty; the advice contained in the somewhat personal letter to Senator Walsh was not that the Article should be stricken out of the Treaty, but that there were objections to it of such a character that 'it would seem to be a mistake for the Democrats to stand too firmly against a reservation on Article...