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1) Its Handling. "I'm well aware our opponents have relegated international affairs to the obscurity of the State Department. . . . The fact that our foreign policy is in the hands of a Secretary of State and a Secretary of Commerce who have been ardent League of Nations advocates, would indicate that the League of Nations is not a closed incident."
2) Its Secrecy. "The American people today do not know what is the foreign policy of our Government, and I have no hesitation in saying it is their right to know that foreign policy. It may be that we do not know our foreign policy because we have none, but even the fact that we "have none the American people have the right to know."
The Sale of Arms to Obregon.
1) Its Significance. "Our policy, expressed now in so many words, is that the United States frowns upon revolutions and will lend its mighty strength to maintain existing power upon this hemisphere. ... I have no hesitation in saying our action is immoral if not illegal. . . . What an anomalous and paradoxical position is ours today, we who were born in revolution!"
2) Its Likeness to the Holy Alliance. "A hundred years ago there existed a league of nations in Europe, the Holy Alliance, which finally came under the control of the cunning and able master of secret diplomacy, Metternich, of Austria. . . . Metternich, finally in absolute control of the league of nations of that day, definitely announced its policy no different from the policy now announced by our Government. Revolution by a long suffering people in Piedmont Metternich ruthlessly stamped out with the armed forces of his league."
3) Its "Alliance with War." "Today this country allies itself with war in Mexico. It does so through those who have talked eloquently of peace and of relieving humanity."
The World Court.
1) Its Entanglement. "You know that we cannot enter this creature of the League without ultimately being entangled with the League itself. ... It is not a world court we are asked to enter."
2) Its Inefficiency. "It is the League of Nations court ... to which we could go, but to which we could not be brought. . . . No wrong could ever be righted. The peace of the world cannot be, in the slightest degree, affected by it, except so far as the nations concerned themselves agree."
3) Its Superfluity. "Remember, we already have arbitration treaties with nearly every important country on earth, and by contract under these arbitration treaties questions of controversy are to be submitted to arbitration. The Hague tribunal is in active existence now and is functioning with wider jurisdiction than the League."