President Harding advocated it, President Coolidge endorsed it, and Senator Lodge delayed itthat has been the approximate history of the proposal that the U. S. enter the Permanent Court of International Justice. Senator Lodge, as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was in a difficult position. He was expected to do something and yet he was opposed to the proposal made by the last two Presidents of his own party.
As a result he advanced last week a separate proposal for a World Court, which may properly be called the "Lodge Court" in...
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